Want to hear and see the far Left's brand of communication that recruits and motivates its Black Block anarchist contingent that we see causing the riots?
Check out this video. And then click on the channel link under the video on the website, and watch some more of their videos. This vimeo channel page was found from a link from a primary black block organizing website.
https://vimeo.com/191715995
The communication takes the form of a try-hard pseudo-edgy style that would appeal only to teenagers.
The likeness of the speaker is unnecessarily stylized to have an underground look, frequent and fast changing clips of popular movies are shown, and lots of cursing is used to keep a young person's attention and to seem maximally cool.
There is no structural political analysis, or in other words analysis of how both business and human group politics actually work to people's benefit and detriment.
There is only emotional appeal, couched in constant framing as to what is 'them', 'corporate', 'big evil establishment', and 'uncool', and then an appeal to edgy revolution and violence. In other words, its all based in irrational emotional appeal. There is no logic.
This is the modern messaging that recruits and keeps young people in the evils of communist ideology. I wonder if the young anarchists are aware of communism's vast body count.
Frankly, this type of messaging, with how stylized and geared it is to keep a young person's attention and maximally spike their emotion, seems more the product of a lot of study rather than of the underground 'thrown together' nature that it is attempting to portray.
The psychological techniques seem grown in a lab, and the editing is too try-hard to pull off what it is pretending to be. Though, I'm sure that it passes for a lot of kids.
Combine that with drug and alcohol use, which is also a large part of this subculture, and you get kids who are drugging themselves in a manner that reduces their emotional control and thus makes the susceptible to purely emotional messaging. Now dangle some danger and the chance at some unwashed anarchist girl in the deal, and you have a convert.
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