Salus Maior wrote:Joohan wrote:I've always been a real bloomer but... I dunno man, the race riots have got me feeling bleak. It's never been this bad before. It's LA 1992, but everywhere. I remember Ferguson and all the other smaller incidents that have happened before, but those never really dampened my optimism.
What absolutely slays me as of recent, is how people all across social media are justifying and supportive of the murder and mayhem. I'm a generally chill guy, but that so many people are not only okay with the anarchy and violence but supportive of it astounds me! Like it were that people just gave up on civil society because violence seemed more cathartic and convenient. People are even trying to compare the butchery in the streets to the Boston Tea Party.
There is no coming back from Lord of the Flies. You don't just go back to normal after cheering on looters as they burn down your neighbors business and beat him senseless in the streets. If anarchy and barbarism was the great American democracy that the founding fathers had conceived of, then American democracy was a mistake.
America has had riots before.
Probably way worse ones during the Civil Rights era.
I could find a parallel in the King assassination riots, which the current race riots mimic closely in terms of how widespread they are, how destructive, and how gruesomely violent.
What makes the current situation worse though, as I understand it, is social media. I don't think there was a mass public push to try and justify the violence during that time - certainly I am sure some people tried, but nothing strikes me off the top of my head. With social media though, you can go on facebook or twitter, or whatever, and find literally thousands of people cheering the mayhem on. These riots are a lot more personal in that way. I pesonally have seen a lot of old friends straight up say, " They don't care about the violence and looting ".
Like I said, I like to think i'm a chill dude - but that's a straight up haunting statement, that's gonna stick with me for a while. People don't care if their fellow Americans are turned into collateral damage. That kind of malice and disregard is what is giving me boogaloo vibes. If this is what we have become as a nation, then maybe America deserves to collapse.