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Thus, discipline is crucial for effective protest. The fact that people can imagine marching for change as an act of getting amped up on self-righteousness shows how little we study and understand the nonviolent protests that have changed the world.
...and yet you don't identify a single concrete activity for which people might congregate, and this is the heart of the problem: people gather with lofty, untethered ideas about what "this means," but with nothing to actually do; they default to scanning for an enemy to yell at
Most successful protest movements through history have very clear objectives and plans (a march from one location to another, with specific demands. A lunch counter sit-in, aiming to end segregated seating, etc.) Are there people who protest poorly? Duh.
Also, successful protests depend on training participants in advance to make sure they are ready to remain calm under provocation. During the SNCC lunch-counter sit-ins, they practiced in advance, role-playing attacks to make sure they could remain calm:http://time.com/3638319/life-and-civil-rights-anatomy-of-a-protest-virginia-1960/ …
Protests can have concrete objectives, and sometimes they do manage to maintain enough group self-awareness to meet them; what we're seeing more of now is public tribalism as a hobby/lifestyle, available most weekends via Facebook event search
Yes. Our country is currently badly, badly broken. There are still some people who protest in an effective way, and many people who are not. But if you say "protesting doesn't make sense at all and any protest is probably just shouting at your enemies" you missed the point.
They used to have more things to do until they kept getting wiped out.
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