JordiGH

Dang, #TonightWeRiot seems like a fun game, and I did download it, but I'm not sure I'll play it.

I watched a few minutes of gameplay, and it's a brawler where you don't control a single character, but an entire enraged mob. At the end of each level, you're judged by how many people in your mob managed to survive.

I like fantasising about violently taking down #capitalism as much as anyone else, but I'm not sure I'm ready to include the deaths of comrades in that fantasy.

Jun 14, 2020 at 7:50pmWeb
Show threadJordiGHJun 14, 2020

Also, fantasising about a worker's revolution is fun, but I have no frame of reference to imagine what happens after the revolution. Every time one of these revolutions "succeeds", after much violence and bloodshed, all that happens is you replace one tyrant with another.

Seems like a fundamental human sociological impulse to look for a leader, whether popularly or self-appointed, and that new leader just repeats the greedy cycle of societal abuse.

Show threadJordiGHJun 14, 2020

The only society I know about that has come closest to functioning in anarchy is the Spanish anarchists, and that was small and short-lived. Maybe 6000 people in the Durruti column? For a couple of years?

Once a society gets slightly large, anarchism falls apart. 😞

Show threadJordiGHJun 14, 2020
Also, I guess I should call them Catalonian anarchists, plz forgive me St Jordi.
Show thread0xDEJun 15, 2020
@JordiGH I'm far less informed on all this than you, but attempting to become informed on a minor point led me to an amusing debate on whether it should be "Catalan" or "Catalonian": https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/catalan-or-catalonian.265928/
Show threadJordiGHJun 15, 2020
@11011110 Oh wow, I just realised I actually flip flop between the two.
Show threadwagloJun 14, 2020

@JordiGH Other forms of social organization fall apart too when they get over a certain size. It just takes longer.

Just a gut feeling.

Show threadJordiGHJun 14, 2020
@waglo Mais apparentement il est possible d'avoir une dictature semi-libre avec des milliards de citoyens. Il faut seulement bien contôler les médias.
Show threadwagloJun 14, 2020
@JordiGH Attends un peu..... Tu vas voir :p
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Jun 14, 2020
@JordiGH what about the Zapatistas?
Show threadJordiGHJun 14, 2020
@technomancy Oh, yeah, hm, I guess there's that. I haven't heard about them in a while. I wonder how they're doing.
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Jun 14, 2020
@JordiGH Rojava is also an interesting case, the I don't know as much about it
Show thread⟨Jo⟩ /ˈɔɪklɪd/Jun 14, 2020
@JordiGH Oof, that's kinda dark. I love a violent video game as much as the next bored and mildly inebriated man (spent a good chunk of the last couple of days playing Black Mesa—on Windows, alas), but that sounds almost like you're roleplaying a general sending people to their death.