[FRIAM] Tonight We Riot!

[Frank Wimberly]

How did you get into Clockwork Orange at 14?  I believe it was rated X.
For a reason.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Fri, May 8, 2020, 9:30 AM Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> 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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