Do you think Micah White's ideas about protest are unrealistic?
Unrealistic is a label rulers slap on any strategy that escapes their predictive models. Micah White argues that repeating the mass-march ritual has lost disruptive potency; we need tactics that seize kairos, build parallel sovereignties and trigger epiphanies. That prescription sounds utopian only if we forget how every major rupture began as an implausible daydream: Gandhi’s salt walk, Solidarity’s shipyard councils, Bouazizi’s spark cascading across the Arab world. White insists on experimenting at the edge because the centre is sedated. His call is not for bigger crowds but for movements able to found their own institutions before the tear gas clears. The realism lies in prototype: micro-governance assemblies, strike-coins that fund escalation, spiritual rituals that thicken commitment. Test them in small circuits, measure sovereignty gained, iterate. If they fail, you harvest data; if they work, you redraw the map.
What fragment of White’s vision feels most outlandish to you, and how might a low-risk pilot puncture that doubt?