No Action which isn't Stickin' it to da Man

The least action or engagement in anything is now framed in most public discourse in terms of personal heroism in resistance against a perceived tyranny. Often that tyranny is seen as a wicked benighted past which is in opposition to a bright and heroic future (because "Things are always getting better!"). In Portsmouth we have two music festivals called 'VICTORIOUS' AND 'MUTINY' (the latter cancelled today after two kids died from some bad shit) which confers the idea that one isn't just dancing around on a patch of grass while swilling cider and listening to some badass hipsters. No, one is being brave and defiant! Now it's all empowered women bravely freeing themselves, oppressed gays standing and taking no prisoners, downtrodden black people etc etc. The word 'feisty' is used a lot. Every narrative is framed this way. I guess it goes back to the sixties when people started seeing things like that. Ironically it was the older generation who had just really been brave and guaranteed them such freedoms. Guess it causes our hearts to flutter as we flatter ourselves that we are being courageous in the most mundane and insignificant things we do and advertisers know that we like being flattered that way.