Democracy exists as an epistemological trap, the knowledge possessed by us is influenced and produced by others. This point focuses our efforts toward new forms of knowledge, the protest begins this different episteme. The mere act of protesting allows us to break the epistemological trap, our protesting changes the way we focus and interpret knowledge.
Protesting develops our knowledge in a different way: old truths are no longer accepted. Truth becomes something that it has never been: unformed. We become the new perceiver of truth, it ceases being perceived and formed by others. The form of the protest develops what we can perceive as truth.
A protest begins the idea of epistemological liberation. This term personifies the new mindset of the liberated individual. The mind breaks free from restraints and perceives things in a new way. The form of the protest becomes the important factor in ensuring the success of this. Self-organizing allows for the proper way of addressing liberated knowledge. Individuals formulating their own knowledge allows for proper liberation.
A set ideology makes true liberation impossible, because the subject assimilates the ideology and is never totally liberated. The right thing to do is to have no set ideology. This way knowledge formulates from the individual, the process of individual liberation becomes ideology. Proper liberation strives to have no set knowledge attached to it, only the knowledge of the liberated.
-Mark Brinton
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