Part three of three in my Funny Business series.
The title derives from the 1971 spoken word song “the revolution will not be televised” by Gil Scott-Heron. It struck me just how different instigating change is now in the era of social media from the civil rights era. The previous methods of manufactured consent through legacy media has been replaced with astroturf campaigns, skewed algorithms, and floods of bots.
Its all well and good to ask “When will enough people be moved into enacting revolutionary change?”, but before that one needs to ask, “Is revolution even possible in our current social landscape and what does that revolution look like?”.
