Published Date 4/2/13 3:29 PM
DRAFT
Looking at the activist groups I have been involved with. It’s interesting to try and record my view of what happened and why it happened. Though as most people will have internalised a different view to my this can be painful for thought who lived through this history. This rises the question of is this a useful thing to do?
“Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it” George Santayana
The is deferentially a problem of circler behaver in media activism and wider issues:
* Problem of liberal views of activist history
* Problem of activist memory hole – our web resources are transient and the backups disappear. The mentality of activists tends to be “we invented this – this is new – we are the first”
* Academics will work with authoritative sources – this is inherently biased
* …
