[FRIAM] Tonight We Riot!

[Steven A Smith]

Glen -
> https://tonightweriot.com/
>> tonight we riot is a revolutionary crowd brawler about worker liberation and lobbing molotovs at mech suits & crazy bosses!

I have always been fascinated (a bit morbidly) with the tension between
"sublimating" angry/reactive/violent/revolutionary behaviour and
"aggravating" it. 

I was fairly (too?) young (14) when I watched "Clockwork Orange" and it
left me VERY disturbed... mainly because I saw myself in the young
"droogs"... not that I was already channeling their negative energy openly.

I *was* feeling it (my oats, general discontent with the establishment,
etc.) and trying to figure out what to do with it. It doesn't help that
this was about the time I was coming to realize what Vietnam meant TO
ME... which on one end of a spectrum (that I could apprehend) was an
opportunity to leave the podunk towns I came from and go do something
important (fix world problems, do something important, be a hero) and on
the other be a part of something deeply horrific and not easy to ever
return from whole (mentally, spiriatually, possibly physically).   It
was 1971 and the appetite for the Vietnam war was waning among the
establishment, not just the youth and the counter-culture, but there was
still plenty of tension and I saw no reason that *I* would not be likely
to be called to go play "kill or be killed".

I haven't heard much about the Antifa movement, nor Anonymous lately.  
I doubt that means they have lost their appetite for "resistance".   I
suspect this game is targeted more at that group than say... the Open
Carry RedHatters?  

A "core feature" is described as:

The unique catharsis that comes from throat-punching a billionaire ghoul
who would rather watch the world and everyone on it burn than lose a tax
break

I am perhaps most disturbed by realizing this could be an MMO,
effectively recruiting a large number of young (mostly men) sheltering
in place in their parents basements, just waiting for the trigger to
boil up and out like so many termites or fire-ants.   

Some of the theoretical work in interreality
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality#Interreality_physics) seems
to provide some foreboding around the "alternate realities" that are
emerging with our pan-global mediation OF reality.

As an antidote to this kind of stuff, I'm  just now watching the SFI
discussion on the topic of Pandemic Resilience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K63Y6uU7j18

- Steve





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