chapotraphouse

new news same as the old news in some ways. it's interesting how the medium changes, and that's probably what's new to analyze here, but the content is still the same as it has always been. within living memory, kids were running around their cities unsupervised for 12+ hours a day playing "cops and robbers" or the much more genocidal "cowboys and indians" and it has always had this exact same social dynamic. the kids are essentially acting out what they correctly understand to be the defining social dynamic of class society in the dying empire of a continent-spanning-and-genociding settler colony, and they always have. much of the work of schooling is to teach you to rationalize that which the children can act out without need for rationalization. the notion of digital protest against ice is also something that strikes me as novel here.