We are all on the same side these days, atomized by the consumer cash nexus, embracing the idea of society as a social contract of individuals praying for democracy, where no one is allowed to be in charge but whatever venal band of bullies happens to be on top at the moment.
Textboxes slither down the stark black-and-white pages shifting from one platform to the other, and one’s allegiance along the way almost embraces all of them. Resisting the oppressive establishment is supposed to set her apart, yet Jennie 2.5 is on no side, having no strategic plan or platform, only favoring individual choice with better information, and a sticky feeling gradually seeps through the pages that she seems to sense, that her message is just like the individual choice and selected information of those government and corporate forces that dominate and eventually silence her. She wants America to wake up to the perils of imperialism, police violence, religious fanaticism, fascism, nativism, and so on. I have been called all those things says hacker airwave pirate Jennie 2.5 in a radio interview, a Socialist, a Communist, an Anarchist, all capitalized one notices, while she is none of them just herself challenging the mainstream media and resisting the routinization of life in an insulated information bubble.
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