Private shame over failed willpower should be redirected into political anger

Evidence

One thing we’ve noticed in our work is that people—especially young people—sometimes feel private shame from moments they’ve realized that their will was insufficient to resist the tools and tricks of the human frackers. … So let us say clearly: Individual humans are no match for this infrastructure. … (To believe otherwise is, itself, to fall for a trick—the result of human frackers successfully obscuring the intensely capitalized and stupefyingly sophisticated engineering behind your cheerful homescreen.) … And so. One might consider that, perhaps, the appropriate feeling is not personal shame, but political anger. … We don’t need superhuman personal willpower. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 329

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes arguments in ‘Digital Minimalism’ and ‘How to Do Nothing’ about industrial-scale attention extraction. — connects to: Attention politics begins when activists reframe private distress as collective injury — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 448; Privatized personal depression is being displaced by public political anger. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1506
• SEED: Angle: shame-to-anger redirect as a technique for social movements against engineered behavior.