Status Updates From If We Burn: The Mass Protes...

•popularization of social media is shaped by neo-liberalism/libertarian ideals, as well as a new-age individualist Utopianism and the New left.
•social media companies utilize this reputation to profit by showing “anti-systemic, vaguely countercultural quests to save the world”.

•the “Tahrir model” inspired protests in Spain and Greece but ultimately did not lead to collapse of the government, because their institutions were stable enough and life was easy enough, compared to the global south where more livelihoods are on the line.
•”Unless society actually ground to a halt, and the reproduction of the economic system became impossible, the institutions could survive”