Going through footage yesterday, again amazed how many of the participants in the Capitol insurgency had go-pros, special camera mounts, etc. Way too many were there to generate content, to livestream the lulz back into the fantasy world they inhabit.
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sop these photo ops around the world now, Russian propaganda on Ukraine comes to mind - "wagging the dog"/optics have replaced principles altogether.
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It's not wagging the dog, though in any real sense. That's how it's been for a long time. Nothing different about this crowd. It's not a type of LARP or rowdy ComiCon. It's exactly how insurgencies work: optics are always crucial.
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Don’t disagree on broader context of cameras/vid from war zones (esp Syria, Ukraine). I meant this specifically in context of the events at the Capitol, anchored to comments from the streamers in other interviews, clips where they observe what is unfolding before them via screen
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Maybe it is now that everyone thinks they can be an observer and not a participant in events they are participating in, a role that used to be reserved for journalists, the definition of which has been expanding. Maybe the drive to generate content is just everything.
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