Similar situation I realized the other day when going to a hardcore show.
The pit is violent, aggressive, but also full of love and camaraderie. Someone pushes you aggressively, but if you actually fall, everyone helps you up. It is cathartic. It is controlled chaos. It is a LARP. It feels good to get your aggression out while also knowing everyone is doing their best to keep you from being seriously injured.
The asshole is the guy who takes it too seriously. the guy who goes in looking for a fight. that breaks the whole LARP. It ruins the fun. Now we have to get serious. Now the danger is real. Now we have to get security to come take this guy away.
All modern “political combat” is this same type of LARP. And everyone hates the asshole who ruins it.
However one further factor is that it is becoming easier and easier for the LARP to become real. Honestly, the Iraq War may have intended to be this LARP. Most modern American war is a bunch of bureaucrats in suits playing a video game. The more power you have, the more dangerous your LARP becomes for those without it, because to you it’s a game but to them it is real death and suffering. And the stated objective of technological society is to give individuals as much power as possible. Is it that we are all becoming more powerful or that we all are more and more desperate to believe the LARP is valid in an attempt to feel something, to where we eventually take it too far? or something else?
Another question I still havent found an answer to is whether this increases or decreases the chance of civil war. On one hand, i feel like as soon as real bloodshed happens everyone goes “bro wtf stop ruining the LARP!!” and recoils and regroups.
But on the other hand, if you break the LARP one too many times, then the guy who just wants to enjoy the LARP actually gets pissed and it comes to blows.
I am pretty sure enough people only want to LARP and so few people actually get immediately hurt—and also its actually obvious to everyone that the real enemy is not the left or the right, that is just the cathartic boogeyman in the LARP because everyone knows the “real enemy” cant actually be defeated—that civil war will never happen. But if im missing just one variable, which I probably am, then answer could be exact opposite.
It's all well and good to say it's a larp and both sides are """consenting""" and noone is supposed to get hurt except for the fact that we have other examples of when people did get hurt.
If they killed Rittenhouse, they would cheer, that's the reality of it, it's happened before and they will cover it up, cheer for it or justify it. They are not your friends or partners or bottoms, it's not a dance between opposing parties, they seek your destruction.
When Antifa clubs your head they cheer and refuse to hold anyone accountable "they were wearing masks! It's not even a real organization, it's an idea! just a whispy cloudy undefined thing, wielding a clawhammer". When BLM drags someone out of a car and stomps on them or shoots a cop they will tell us it's mostly peaceful, and that riots are the voice of the oppressed. The increased crimes or deaths do not matter. Whether it's a result of hedonistic desires or political strategy does not matter. Your destruction is what matters.
Their relationship to daddy state might be as you say that they fake-tantrum against him, however their animosity towards Rittenhouse, or "the right" or others is very real, which is why they attack you in the street but squeal about protesters in the Whitehouse. In either case they seek your destruction. They just see one thing or another as a way of achieving it. Not saying there will be a civil war though, they just want to hurt you.
There is no moment where the other mosh pit enjoyers stop and help you up, there is only you being stomped on the ground and their friends taking your wallet.
this is 100% correct.
Similar situation I realized the other day when going to a hardcore show.
The pit is violent, aggressive, but also full of love and camaraderie. Someone pushes you aggressively, but if you actually fall, everyone helps you up. It is cathartic. It is controlled chaos. It is a LARP. It feels good to get your aggression out while also knowing everyone is doing their best to keep you from being seriously injured.
The asshole is the guy who takes it too seriously. the guy who goes in looking for a fight. that breaks the whole LARP. It ruins the fun. Now we have to get serious. Now the danger is real. Now we have to get security to come take this guy away.
All modern “political combat” is this same type of LARP. And everyone hates the asshole who ruins it.
However one further factor is that it is becoming easier and easier for the LARP to become real. Honestly, the Iraq War may have intended to be this LARP. Most modern American war is a bunch of bureaucrats in suits playing a video game. The more power you have, the more dangerous your LARP becomes for those without it, because to you it’s a game but to them it is real death and suffering. And the stated objective of technological society is to give individuals as much power as possible. Is it that we are all becoming more powerful or that we all are more and more desperate to believe the LARP is valid in an attempt to feel something, to where we eventually take it too far? or something else?
Another question I still havent found an answer to is whether this increases or decreases the chance of civil war. On one hand, i feel like as soon as real bloodshed happens everyone goes “bro wtf stop ruining the LARP!!” and recoils and regroups.
But on the other hand, if you break the LARP one too many times, then the guy who just wants to enjoy the LARP actually gets pissed and it comes to blows.
I am pretty sure enough people only want to LARP and so few people actually get immediately hurt—and also its actually obvious to everyone that the real enemy is not the left or the right, that is just the cathartic boogeyman in the LARP because everyone knows the “real enemy” cant actually be defeated—that civil war will never happen. But if im missing just one variable, which I probably am, then answer could be exact opposite.
It's all well and good to say it's a larp and both sides are """consenting""" and noone is supposed to get hurt except for the fact that we have other examples of when people did get hurt.
If they killed Rittenhouse, they would cheer, that's the reality of it, it's happened before and they will cover it up, cheer for it or justify it. They are not your friends or partners or bottoms, it's not a dance between opposing parties, they seek your destruction.
When Antifa clubs your head they cheer and refuse to hold anyone accountable "they were wearing masks! It's not even a real organization, it's an idea! just a whispy cloudy undefined thing, wielding a clawhammer". When BLM drags someone out of a car and stomps on them or shoots a cop they will tell us it's mostly peaceful, and that riots are the voice of the oppressed. The increased crimes or deaths do not matter. Whether it's a result of hedonistic desires or political strategy does not matter. Your destruction is what matters.
Their relationship to daddy state might be as you say that they fake-tantrum against him, however their animosity towards Rittenhouse, or "the right" or others is very real, which is why they attack you in the street but squeal about protesters in the Whitehouse. In either case they seek your destruction. They just see one thing or another as a way of achieving it. Not saying there will be a civil war though, they just want to hurt you.
There is no moment where the other mosh pit enjoyers stop and help you up, there is only you being stomped on the ground and their friends taking your wallet.
as if the 'other' side does not have it's own history of violence towards individuals whose only crime is belonging to certain minority group
untwist your panties