Sublime

So I think we should turn back and pay attention to these fuckers. Use their infrastructure to release information about exactly what these people are doing and how. I think we should take our potential futures back.

While others obsess with observing the rules, we’re subtly undermining them and subverting them to our advantage.

to break up local and regional communities by drawing them into larger spheres over which the knowledge monopoly is maintained, thus ensuring cultural and economic domination.

To admit this is to admit the limits of state power and its legitimacy. Better to marginalize activists—to portray them as rabble on the fringe who are dangerous the way violent criminals are dangerous. Thus is the true danger to the status quo made into another “safe fear.” Thus are both the power and the legitimacy of the margins denied. Denied b

so subversive performances always run the risk of becoming deadening clichés through their repetition and, most importantly, through their repetition within commodity culture where “subversion” carries market value.

Rage, conspiracism, and mob pursuit of retribution are poisoning politics. Rather than leading, some aspiring politicians choose to cater to the alternate histories of niche factions because becoming popular with a highly activist and vocal faction will increase attention paid to them. This extends, ironically, to delegitimizing the same processes