Being un-networked and uninformed is itself a practice of freedom

Evidence

In light of compulsive and coercive communication and conformism, idiotism represents a practice of freedom. By nature, the idiot is unallied, un-networked, and uninformed. The idiot inhabits the immemorial outside, which escapes communication and networking altogether: ‘The idiot spins about like a plucked rose in the whirling river of single-minded people – people in consent, those who have been incorporated and belong to a wondrous, common understanding.’ — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 187

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the whole presumed virtue of infinite connectability that dominates productivity literature since the network-society sociology Han repeatedly cites. — connects to: Neoliberal domination works by making subjects act on themselves and call it freedom — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 69
• SEED: Article angle: ‘In defense of being uninformed’ — reframing ignorance of the perpetual news/environment feed as freedom rather than civic failure, drawing on Han’s idiot figure.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal domination works by making subjects act on themselves and call it freedom #contradicts (0.82) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 69