Forum Post: Your message gets distorted!

I decided to write here, so that you know what it looks like and how it is presented from the outside. What you try to say is filtered out and not just because of the "evil" media that some of you really like to see as your ultimate foe, but partly due to the way you present things. What I am about to write is something I want you to read and think about, please do! It is by no means an attack or anything like that. It is an attempt to assessing the situation from an outside and presenting some views in media and among the people I know. Even the objective media that have I've grown to appreciate show you as 1) aggressive 2) leftist 3) spoiled rich kids struggling to 4) destroy capitalism!

1) Because of the attacks in Rome you are shown agressive. You HAVE TO, you MUST state explicitly that you are a peaceful movement and you condemn the attacks. Media like short catchy strong statements, best would be crowd chants like that. You may know, obviously, that your movement is peaceful. Yet, if you do not PROVE it, you will be remembered in history as an aggressive movement just because some guys decided to destroy stuff in Rome. It is IMPORTANT! This is how propaganda and history-shaping works.

2) You have to keep your message clear too. I myself do not see any particular aim in what you are doing. What exactly do you expect to be changed? How? I see some of it as populist and naive, sorry for being frank, because catchy phrases do not give specific ideas for a change. You have to work for a specific change, for something tangible to make some use of it! I believe that if anything, those protests can show people that they can at least start voicing their concerns loudly. IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU'VE ALREADY ACHIEVED. It may give people courage to say "I do not accept!" and show that no misdoings will go unnoticed. I do not mean revolutions, most of you do not need it. Revolutions bring just a change of rulers and more often than not one dictatorship is changed for another type of dictatorship. Communism is Russia cost more victims than all the wars in the 20th century combined. And communism started with catchy slogans that some people start pronouncing here quite often too - money of the rich to the poor, everything should be common and so on. It was a blood bath and resulted in another dictatorship! You should strive for changes, not revolutions, remember! Do not go too far to the left nor the right! Be moderate and be clever! And keep in mind that radicals have found place among you and so did populist fanatics, and I have observed it and came here just to warn you, as a person from the objective outside - BE VIGILANT AND CRITICAL all the time. BE SPECIFIC. and remember that there have to be means of change for any successful change. And that the government needs its citizens and the more you say what you think the more it will have to adjust. You just have to make your message clear, say exactly what you expect and how.

1. This is just a comment -some people disregard your doing saying that the real people who need help won't even know about those protests that you are organizing. That the people who are really in need are not the ones among you. I do not really agree with that, but I think it is important for you to realize that .Plus, many "cool kids" think it is trendy to take part in the protests, not really conscious what they are protesting about. And they are distorting your message too. Your duty, if you take it all seriously, to straighten out the message and relate what other people do IN YOUR NAME, basically.

4) Last but not least, you are shown as extremists trying to destroy something that allowed you to broadcast, write about and organize the protests. All the technology you DO possess and use during the protests is not available in the really poor countries where people really have nothing. Try to relate to the Indistrial Revolution times and what were people and their possessions like back then. Samewise with the countries of deep communism (yes, communism is the extreme-left idea of a government) even 20+ years ago. This is also something that you have to image-wise deal with in ways of positive propaganda. That you are not credible by saying that capitalism is evil, because it is bullshit.

That's all from me. Again, it is just something I would really really like to think about. It is not an attack, it is not a support for anything. I sympathize with you and want something positive to come out of it. I think it may give people hope, courage and maybe start politically independent media to grow larger and larger. I wish this to us all, peace!