Watch And Learn - About Me (Activism)

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A few words about my history as an activist from the “About Me” section of “Watch and Learn.”

You can find the various sections and clips, with their respective embedded videos, here:

If you need a political label, I am a progressive. I want us to evolve to our best selves. Other labels that may apply only serve to broadly describe the best way to get there.

Much of my work over the years in these areas has related to integrity of actors in the progressive and left-wing information spaces. I believe fundamentally that secrecy and tyranny are closely related – so closely that, as a general principle, you can’t have one without the other.

I have often openly and aggressively criticized “leaderless movements,” ad-hoc “protests” that look suspiciously more like self-promotion than political action, and online fake-tivism whereby people whose only interest in ideology is how they can make money from it pretend to be activists and, using their ill-gotten gains, control the narrative on all sides.

I am usually the person asking, “wait, who says so? who is running the show here and what are their interests?” That’s one of the reasons I’m doing this section of the project: if I was watching someone do what I’m doing, “who the hell is this guy” would definitely be the first question on my mind.

Much of my “career,” if you choose to think of it as that, has been spent encouraging people to ask precisely those questions. As a lifelong matter of personality, I “wear my heart on my sleeve.”

So, questions answered.

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