{"id":11315,"date":"2024-11-25T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:23:25","slug":"town-councilor-shawn-faber-the-art-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11315","title":{"rendered":"Town Councilor Shawn Faber &#8216;The Art of War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town Council Shawn Faber speaks at &#8216;Porc Fest 2024 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsp.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fsp.org\/\">Free State Project<\/a> largest annual even<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Londonderry Town Councilor Shawn Faber argues that\u00a0political activism in the 2020s\u00a0must shift from passive observation to\u00a0strategic, real-world action. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of\u00a0Sun Tzu\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Art of War<\/em>, he emphasizes that winning requires\u00a0building broad coalitions\u00a0rather than demanding ideological purity. Faber critiques modern tendencies toward\u00a0social media performativity\u00a0and conspiracy-driven waiting, urging individuals to focus on\u00a0local governance\u00a0where tangible change is possible. He highlights the importance of\u00a0pragmatism over ego, advising candidates to listen to their constituents&#8217; needs rather than attempting to force-feed them complex education. Ultimately, the source serves as a call to\u00a0active participation, suggesting that small local victories are the most effective way to secure a free future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Art of War: Politics in the 2020&#039;s with Shawn Faber\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xePforExomc?start=1286&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Council Shawn Faber speaks at &#8216;Porc Fest 2024 the Free State Project largest annual even Londonderry Town Councilor Shawn Faber argues that\u00a0political activism in the 2020s\u00a0must shift from passive observation to\u00a0strategic, real-world action. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of\u00a0Sun Tzu\u2019s\u00a0The Art of War, he emphasizes that winning requires\u00a0building broad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}