Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
This has been going on for more than ten years, I have been at the heart of this movement, at many of the steps, I meet defeatism and negativity. It’s frustrating, especially now, when the mainstream is visibly stepping away from the #dotcons and looking for a place to land. We should be building that … Continue reading The #fashionistas poisoned the well of alt-media
This post is about controlling the narrative, not letting the #nastyfew dictate the terms of engagement. Too often, we let them set the agenda, reacting to their every word instead of actively building the alternatives we need. Their power isn’t just in what they do, it’s in how much space they take up in our … Continue reading #Fashionistas in Activism: How Buzzword Chasing Undermines Real Change
This is a hard issue for the people who create the problem to see the problem. #Fashionistas chase status and spectacle over substance, co-opting real radical movements for aesthetics. They turn collective struggles into performative gestures, feeding the waste flow of #mainstreaming cycle. This poisons the roots of change, turning compost into toxic waste, energy … Continue reading Why are our #fashionistas so poisonous?
Trying to make the #fashionistas functional in an #openweb reboot is much harder than it needs to be. But still, we do need to harness their strengths by working to redirecting focus towards #KISS sustainable and meaningful outcomes. How can we do this? Ideas? Clarify Objectives, is a start, with straightforward and compelling stories that … Continue reading What can we do with our fashionistas?
The problem of #fashionistas in activism is the pushing of style and appearance over substance and meaningful action. These people are concerned with projecting a limited image or brand of activism, rather than engaging in the actual, messy effect of social change. This poses challenges to the efficacy and integrity of real grassroots movements: Mediating … Continue reading Why worry about fashionistas in activism
The hashtag #fashionistas” describes individuals and groups who adopt trends or mainstreaming ideologies in activism, for the sake of appearance to align themselves with what is currently popular or socially acceptable. In the realm of activism, this to often pushes the behaviour of #NGOs and advocacy organizations that prioritize “chasing the buzzword” over any meaningful … Continue reading The problem of fashionistas in activism
A. Start a outreach stepaway from the #dotcons project and watch the old crap crubbale when you glance back. Be a part of a soughted #fashernistas movement to create social change #OMN Q. You have been saying this over and over for the last few years and railing against the mysterious #fashernistas. And what plan … Continue reading A question for fashionistas is drinking piss healthy?
Let’s look back to before the #Fediverse, to be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of … Continue reading The #encryptionist detour
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies – not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of … Continue reading #OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
For progressive and radical people, one of the central political questions of our time is simple to ask but hard to answer – Why is it so difficult to rebuild the institutions that were destroyed in our #deathcult worship of the 1980s and 1990s? And more importantly why does the impossibility of rebuilding them make … Continue reading OMN: Broken Institutions, and the Need to Rebuild the Commons
Fascism, treats collaboration as weakness. Something you only (pretend to) do when you’re not strong enough to dominate outright. In the fascist worldview, cooperation isn’t power, it’s a temporary tactic until hierarchy and force can be re-asserted. That’s why fascists can never be trusted. Not tactically, not strategically, not “just this once.” They don’t believe … Continue reading Fascism, treats collaboration as weakness.
There are meany online exchanges about software licences that can help to highlight the #geekproblem. Yep, these conversations can sound radical at first glance: “Software licences won’t destroy capitalism, but if they can be even slightly annoying to capitalists in the meantime, I’ll take it.” Fair. Nobody sensible thinks a licence clause will end capitalism. … Continue reading Software licences and the #geekproblem