The Philosophy of Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis. Various forms of activism range from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing businesses, rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, and hunger strikes. Research is beginning to explore how activist groups in the United States and Canada are using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action. This excerpt was pulled from Wikipedia and analytically explains the systematic process of the act of activism. The truth behind activism is that it is built upon role playing which leads to ritual. Activism is a sales marketing function that is used to implement will upon society.  It can entail pitching statistical data and "awareness", taking down information, utilizing symbolism to implement a message, surveying and surveillance, demonstrations and such forth. Activism is true risky business. It is a ladder game of undercover work. Some activism is good intended work and other activism is infiltrated with greed and corruption as well. Another strive for a power game. I do not doubt there is a direct connection with some activist organizations and the Center of Intelligence Agency. It wouldn't come as much of surprise if you took the time to think it out for yourself that this was probably the stepping stone process that the CIA took to gather intelligence from on a street level. The bigger concern I have is how can some non-profit organizations advertise themselves as independent organizations completely funded by the people when they are twisting truth and obviously have government affiliation which subsides their work to be government approved. Activism is like a trade off the government had with all the enlightened individuals that knew they had the power to make a change. It was like yeah you guys outsmarted the system, but hey we got a dope job for you just work undercover, stay amongst these stipulations and we won't bother each other. Hey you can even help us write some laws. Greenpeace how can you not be government affiliated yet you still write proposition? You write law for crying out loud. You help implement law. Greenpeace was having me pitch ridiculous statistics like fisherman kill 100 million sharks a year. I'm sorry that is not the case. Has sensationalism gotten the best of activism as well? I bet MLK would be real proud.