Anarchy Among the Anarchists - A Mass of Naive Victims in Zucotti Park

[jordan179]

From http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/1336190.html?view=8072318#t8072318 referencing Candace M. Giove, "Post Reporter Spends an 'In Tents' Night Amid Anarchy in Zucotti Park"Read more... )

Comments

[dexeron]

I've been playing a lot of "Batman: Arkham City" (mostly because it's simply a fantastic game) but I can't help but be struck by how similar the conditions in that game (an entire city walled off and allowed to simply be a lawless anarchy) are to what you and cutelittledrow are describing. No, we're not talking about actual criminal maniacs and sentenced rapists and murderers run amok in a no-man's-land, but we are dealing with anarchy, and it's obvious consequences. They don't want cops, they don't want LAWS, and then they are surprised when stronger or less scrupulous individuals show up and start taking advantage of them? The obviously over-the-top hyperbole of that video game (and the deteriorating conditions evidenced therein) is shocking in a fictional context, but it's far more shocking just how over-the-top reality itself is getting here. We may not be talking about actual supervillians fighting masked vigilantes, but we are talking about an obscene level of violence, theft and disease, and behavior and attitudes that anywhere else would be considered completely INSANE. Every time a new story comes out of this, I have to check to see if it's from the Onion. It's the real life version of Poe's Law, turned back in upon the very folks who originally brandished it.

[headnoises]

Amusingly, I just conveyed your comment to my husband-- who is also playing B:AC at the moment.

Then his character hit the street, the thugs stared, and then the NPC thugs found a rock to throw.... -.-

[polaris93]

Sadly, you're right. The Occupy movement is becoming a perfect microcosm of everything that has gone wrong with the mind of the American public. The '60s were bad, but copared to this, they were bastions of sanity and high intelligence. We seem to have raised a generation of empty-headed, deluded douchebags. And the only thing that can cure cure them of that condition is natural selection, God help them all.