{"id":12416,"date":"2020-06-09T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:44:26","slug":"10-rules-for-postmodern-rioting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10-rules-for-postmodern-rioting\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Rules for Postmodern Rioting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The peaceful protests against the terrible brutalization and death of George Floyd soon either themselves turned violent or, in many cases, were hijacked by Antifa operatives and opportunistic looters or both. It was certainly not as alleged a \u201csmall number\u201d who destroyed swaths of New York, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, or Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After watching hours of such footage of mayhem and destruction, one can glean a few rules that the rioters apparently followed quite religiously. And they are often disconcerting if not bizarre. Here is a sample of 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rule No. 1: Selfies&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In our culture of narcissism, rioters seemed intent on obsessing with their smartphones, often to capture their criminality with as many selfies as possible, as well as recording friends\u2019 crimes in action. It was almost as if looting was envisioned as performance art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was the logic that there is always time to steal and burn, but not so much to capture oneself momentarily breaking and entering for posterity? Why would anyone take time to record the act of lighting up a store or kicking in a window? Is the postmodern assumption that when one posts these revolutionary acts on Facebook, some Hollywood talent agent in his Malibu home gym might spot the scene in cyberspace of shattering glass or defacing the Lincoln Monument and Skype his interest therein in a future actor? Are there stars born among the flames?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rule No. 2: Masks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/06\/07\/10-rules-for-postmodern-rioting\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The peaceful protests against the terrible brutalization and death of George Floyd soon either themselves turned violent or, in many cases, were hijacked by Antifa operatives and opportunistic looters or both. It was certainly not as alleged a \u201csmall number\u201d who destroyed swaths of New York, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3eg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13076,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/radical-new-rules-for-post-america-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12416,"position":0},"title":"Radical New Rules for Post-America","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.\u00a0\u00a0 1) Money is a construct.\u00a0It can be created from thin air. 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