Thread by @Noahpinion

Wow, first I'd seen of this. Pretty amazing. Kinda complicates the narrative that Ammon Bundy was a fascist stormtrooper...

https://twitter.com/TheEpicDept/status/1288820355960799233

What we're eventually going to realize is that 2014-whenever was a period of unrest, where a lot of people felt that they needed to make dramatic demonstrations and take dramatic actions, but not all of those people really knew what they wanted.

But we're not ready for that conversation, because we're still in the era of unrest, and so we still have to justify our own agitation to ourselves by telling ourselves that everyone has a very strict ideology.

For many, only by insisting to themselves that everyone has a very clear ideological side in a very clear ideological battle (instead of just acting out) can they convince themselves that their own activism, their own hatreds, their own imagined acts of violence mean something.

Maybe in 5 years, maybe in 15, we're going to look back and see very clearly that a lot of the prominent figures from this period were attention seekers, outrage entrepreneurs, or just riled-up people who didn't really know why they were riled up.

thedailybeast.com/the-black-pant…

But like I said, we're not ready for this conversation yet. We're not yet out of the Era of Unrest, even if I'm right in my prediction that we've seen the peak.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/calling-the-…

People in an Era of Unrest don't like being told how ridiculous so many of the people and ideas and movements and actions of that era will look in retrospect.

So come see me in a decade and we'll talk again.

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