Representation
Part 5 — Everybody go Vote Online!
What is the tipping point in demanding more representation? Are people complacent with the status quo?
These are the questions I have after reading Augusto Boal’s, Theatre of the Oppressed. In this reading I have found a real life activation of challenging the status quo where the function of the audience members is to no longer be that — but to be a participant.
As with the development of new media, throughout the years — from printed word, to television broadcasts, then now to new scapes of exploring the world, the collective “we” have the ability to participate.
Do we take what we get, or do we demand more, or can we? I would contend yes, on the premise that we no longer have to take top-down television broadcasts the way they come.
We can choose what message we want to hear. The principles of control and maintaining status quo are ever the more exposed. Trust is the key factor in determining success of revolutionizing failing particular sects of American life.
Education, healthcare, production of news, the buying of elections — policies, and corprate interests determining scientific alternative facts — will all change with more unity, and trust amongst the middle, and working class sects of America.
Determining the condition of “trust” amongst people within the states will come in further discussion next week.
