I really identified with this powerful article, "the afterlife of the whistleblower".

And these words in particular:

#the sanctity of whistleblowing may be written into law, in both the UK and US, but for most it will be a traumatic experience
#I realised what they were talking about was real, not just a mental health issue – their lives were under threat
#Most of us like to think we would stand up and be counted when faced with wrongdoing, but the hard truth is that most of us don’t
#They often also have a courage drawn from an ideology, religion or strong set of principles...from “a sense of belonging to something greater than the organisation they work for, whether God, humanity or some broader community”
#People are suddenly plunged into a world they didn’t know existed, where the rules they thought applied don’t
#The loneliness and isolation that comes with the territory seems to feed our view of them as weird misfits who have merely found their natural state
#the strongest-willed individuals find the burden of standing out from the crowd unbearable over time...and we have a clear picture of ourselves as social creatures who, for the most part, would rather be wrong than isolated
#our healthy and necessary desire to be social can be turned against us within bad systems, or by bad leaders
#Ideally, whistleblowers should always form a small team, because when you’re a whistleblower against a powerful system, the system dismisses you as a fanatic. But if you have three people, what you’re saying becomes a point of view.”

And the last one is just one factor in my isolation and the total media block.

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