The film also shifted focus away from the community and onto Jason Russell as a charismatic leader figure. He aspired, as a strategy, to connect directly with the likes of Bono and Buffett, enlisting his base to help him do so. But where the old model of Invisible Children made thousands of people feel like leaders, this approach made it all about Jason. His breakdown was thus the organization’s. (For another example of this dynamic, think of Lance Armstrong and his now-diminished cancer charity Livestrong.) The super-participants, who had invested so much in the work of Invisible Children,
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