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Is your argument that what Strong Towns and NJB are doing is somehow invalid because they're not also doing something completely different? Raising awareness is also a very important role. Sure, maybe 5 friends can get you elected to a local office, but first you need to convince those 5 friends. You need to get people to care.

Of course organizing is important, but so is awareness, and that's certainly what NJB is all about (I'm less familiar with Strong Towns). And organizing is especially unimportant to NJB, because he already lives in a country where this stuff is better organized than he'd ever been able to come up with. He's just spreading the good word and showing the contrast with North America. And he's very effective at that.

The witty snarky videos about organizing are better made by people who know more about organizing. If you think they're not emphasizing the thing you think is most necessary, why aren't you out there doing that?