30 November

Does protest achieve anything? An open question. Something about it doesn't sit right with me, it has a set of assumptions built into it that are a bit strange. Like the idea that power is 'held' by some group, and that's who we need to protest about or to. That sort of thing makes Chomskyites a bit excited, but it's a really questionable idea. And protest tends to alienate the people whose minds people want to change. There's also sometimes a vanity about it, as if my grievance is the one you should all be paying attention to etc.