Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist — How To Get Your Dissident Ideas Heard In The New Media Environment

I often say that my long-term goal here is to become obsolete so that I can focus on making art and poetry. Ideally this will look like our society shifting to a mode of operation that is so healthy that there is no longer any demand for an Australian political blogger who points out the fact that it’s wrong to manipulate public thought with mass media and drop explosives on children, but I’ll also settle for a world in which there are enough people doing this sort of thing that I’m no longer wanted or needed in this role.

Toward that end, and because I’ve been getting some requests for advice on how people who want to do what I do can get started, I’m going to try to tap out a few tips. I’ve caught some lucky breaks and been really blessed and supported in a bunch of frankly miraculous ways on this weird and wonderful journey, but there are also some concrete pointers I’ve picked up along the way which I employ constantly. Here they are for anyone who’s interested in getting their ideas heard in the people’s information rebellion against the establishment propaganda machine:

The new activism in the Internet age.

Good advice. These are some of my rules, too.

I would add an eighth. "Persistence pays off." Persist, and never, never even think of giving up.

These main points have a lot of sub-points, and sub-sub-points. They could fill a book on activism.

Activism is about think and do. It requires creative and critical thinking and a knowledge of rhetoric and persuasion in addition to logic and argument.

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
How To Get Your Dissident Ideas Heard In The New Media Environment
Caitlin Johnstone