Cosmonauticus@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Alan Moore, the author of V for Vendetta, has a negative view of the revolutionary cultures/movements he helped inspireEnglish
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4 days agoAnonymous are not a revolutionary group imo. Revolutions are bloody are done the in the streets. They’re a nuisance at best.
what they did was monstrous, so they made a monster" justification that wasn’t meant to be taken as the doctrine it became), and he did not intend people would weaponize use of it as a platform,
Personally I think that was pretty naive on Moore’s part. It resonates with ppl because it’s true. Revolution is often bloody and morally black because ppl have reached their breaking point.
Licking a doorknob doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get sick but the overwhelming odds are you will. Also using Egypt and Catalonia as examples of peaceful revolutions is strange considering Egypt squashed tons of challenges to the throne, revolts, etc. with violence and Catalonians have engaged in straight up terrorism