Calibration Time: Am I suffering from a severe case of normalcy bias?
It is currently 22:50 local time. I’m going to bed. I expect, when I wake up tomorrow, that this entire situation either (1) has been resolved or (2) is being resolved or (3) is a stalemate that will be resolved in favor of the status quo eventually.
My gut feeling assigns epsilon odds that this will actually result in any real political change. This is not the Revolution 2.0
YET AT THE SAME TIME
The actual facts on the ground is that capitol hill has been stormed, the succession process has been severely tampered with, congress has been evacuated.
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It feels very certain that this won’t make any real change happen.
It looks a lot like a Reichstagsbrand.
I notice that I am confused.
The difference is that the protestors clearly have no idea what they’re doing. They’ve stormed the Capitol building, and then were like ‘what do we do now’ and took selfies in the legislative chambers.
If this were a revolution where there revolutionaries knew what they were doing, it’d feel even more like the Reichstagsbrand, because the building would be on fire, and there’d be more shooting. This is just larping, which is funny because the average rpg group would be way more prepared than this.