For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. Second, people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.
13 Practice corporeal politics, (Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.) from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
13 Practice corporeal politics, (Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.) from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
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