“People sometimes do things that are illegal, but I think they’re ethical,” Ben said. “I’m happy to be in this mass that creates anonymity for those people, even if they’re doing things I’m not willing to do.” [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/style/black-bloc-fashion.html
This is the worldview of those who regarded Charles Manson as a 'cool dude' and who wear images of Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung on their T-shirts. All they are accomplishing is an affirmation of the adage that ignorance is difficult to disguise.
The violence and the sheer anarchy of this movement of ingenue terrorists is swept aside because they are 'fashionable'. Just as the Black Panthers during the 60's were the fashionable accessory of any chic party, so these days the garb of the Antifa thugs is de rigueur apparel for the 'woke' fashionista of today's 'radical chic':
"There is solid beauty advice as well: “A layer of glitter or highlighter dusted over your cheeks can serve double duty, showing off your glorious bone structure while simultaneously providing a helpful way to determine which side of your bandanna was in contact with your face and which side is saturated in tear gas particulate.” (Also, jean shorts are probably not ideal.)
There is more practical advice on how to dress for a riot. One should decide on organic or synthetic gloves before participating in an action: Wool and cotton may allow chemical contaminants, like pepper spray, to absorb, while nylon can melt if you grab something hot, which historically has included some kinds of tear-gas canisters but can include various things on fire. [ibid]The psychological upheavals that have infested the minds of academia and the neo-feudalist elite, has found fertile soil in these sad sacks. They truly believe that this 'new American revolution' is the great equaliser and a harbinger of the Socialist Utopia:
“It was like a goth party,” Min said. “There were queer people, black people, white people, Asian people, and, because, we were all wearing black, there was no way to even think about the things that are often barriers to our connection.” Min said this anonymity, where she was unable to identify even people around her, had a way of purifying her actions. “There’s a difference between me helping you because I know you and care about you, and me helping you because I want you to be helped,” she said.
Min is an artist. For her, this is one of the most unappreciated aspects of black bloc as a style. It’s tactical, and practical, and it’s also an art form with the effect of building solidarity long after the boots go into the closet. The experience of being enveloped in anonymity helps retain the movement’s ideology, after the balaclavas get folded up and stacked in the drawer."[ibid]The ignorance embodied by this superficial radicalism boggles the mind.
Do they truly believe that they can cut off the branch on which they are sitting and not suffer a fall?
Do they truly believe that they can destroy the very foundations of their freedoms and not suffer any consequences?
I think they do. I think they have been 'educated' to believe that science is a patriarchal tool, that language and biology is all a social construct and that the police/justice systems and in particular white skinned individuals are all tools of the oppressive colonist and therefore anything that they might have achieved in the past is irrelevant.
I think many actually do believe that if only they can tear down the religion of the oppressor (Christianity), that if they can destroy the economy of the oppressor (capitalism) then all will be well. They believe that tribalism is the multi-cultural way to create harmony and that they can, by force of violence usher in a brave new Utopia of equality of outcomes for everybody. These are the lies that have been sold to the vast majority of young people in the West. I think that they truly believe that somehow, the luxury, the freedoms, the safety and the medical benefits that we take for granted somehow just 'evolved' over time.
If only they had been taught history at school, they would know how hard won the developments of the West have been. That advancement comes not through the barrel of a gun or the edge of a sword but by standing on the shoulders of giants in the fields of; science, medicine, politics and economics.They would have an understanding that nothing good comes from violent insurrections and they would have learned about the bloody results of the socialist revolutions that came before.
Unfortunately it is a fact attested to by school results, university results, the exposure of school and University courses that fail to produce results (the TAFE debacle in South Australia is a current case in point), the everyday experiences of many colleagues, of my own forays into the world of education and the plain pig-ignorance out of the very mouths of these 'babes in the wood' gives credence to the claim that they have no idea whatsoever of the results of actual socialistic regimes.
And if they do by some miracle hear the truth of these great social disasters, their first response is that" those countries were not really adopting TRUE SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES. Of course such a response is extremely hubristic because it communicates that the person behind such a claim is superior to all of those who tried and failed.
Unfortunately such hubris has indeed been massaged into Western youth for more than three decades now. Its an ideology that says; everyone deserves to win and therefore everyone in the team, whether they lost or not, is given a trophy/medal/certificate. That there are no losers. This egregious untruth lies at the very heart of Socialist ideology and its name is; equality of outcome. It embodies an dogma that declares that everyone deserves the same result, not the same opportunity as embodied in the Western worldview (historically).
What happens when the results are not the same given that everybody has different talents, skills, motivations, degrees of commitment, desires etc? Well what happens is what we have witnessed in every country that has believed in this hogwash. The imposition of mandated results. And where these results have been impossible to mandate, eradication soon follows. When the ruling oligarchy realises that the only way to bring about equality of outcome is to stamp out individuality thats when we see real barbarism at work. Thus the 20th century witnessed the greatest slaughter of human beings in the name of equality that history has ever seen.
And yet these ignoramuses think that if they were given the opportunity, it would be different.
What was that definition of madness? Doing the same thing, the same way, and expecting a different outcome every time.
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