"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Very annoying Athenian and supreme wiseass
Socrates
Lawbreaking that is communicative, public, non-violent, and accepts legal punishment.
Civil disobedience
Stuart Hall and Wendy Brown
Neoliberalism
"Elvis lives!"
Conspiracy theory
"For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind."
Socrates
Allegedly unwise and untimely
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A form of government whose common ground is loneliness.
Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt and M. Gessen
Lies
A socially necessary delusion
Ideology
"It may be in the nature of the political realm to be at war with truth."
Hannah Arendt
Accused of lacking education and ridiculed for her Southern accent
Fannie Lou Hamer
A philosophical view that sees individuals as the fundamental unit of politics and assigns the state the role to facilitate consensual exchange.
Liberalism
Socrates and Martin Luther King, Jr. (but not Edward Snowden)
Accepted punishment for breaking the law
Recognizes social problems but diverts from a rational path to a solution
Agitation/propaganda
"There is no such thing [as society]! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."
Margaret Thatcher
"A coward who has chosen to run."
Edward Snowden
A dispute that is unresolvable because a truth teller cannot express the truth within the rules of a language game they are forced to play.
A differend
Cassandra and Emma Sulkowicz
Disbelieved
"Formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other ... on account of the commerce and consort of men there."
Idols of the Market (Francis Bacon)
"I have tried in vain to find a single former deportee capable of proving to me that he had really seen, with his own eyes, a gas chamber."
Robert Faurisson
Seen as a liar and a madwoman
Cassandra
A verbal activity in which the speaker has a relation to truth through frankness.
Parrēsia
Ideology
Destroys the possibility for politics
The modern political lie