What is it that they've done that makes them hit a chord with you?
As an American, I have a demoralizing sense that the country has given up on doing great things and, more specifically, turned its back on underdogs. I could make a more detailed case, starting with my view of human nature and extending to the latest Supreme Court decisions and the drivel I see nosing around Twitter and Facebook, but that would be sort of beside the point here.
Why gamers and book forum readers? I don't have anything against them personally and I agree there are probably more suitable targets. At the same time, obsessive game-players and score-keeping book-readers offer an obvious illustration for the kind of obliviousness and escapism that I can find symptomatic of larger social problems.
I suspect Lulzsec owes part of its style to The Joker from the last Batman movie. Remember that scene when the Joker lights the pile of money on fire? I agree Anonymous is a more constructive example of civil disobedience. But Lulzsec, in its aimlessness, may be the more potent symbol. I see it as a form of satire as much as anything.
Would my attitude would change if, say, they deleted my gmail account? Probably. But then maybe there would be something constructive in that, too.
I was thinking of saying something along the lines of I'd be surprised if they view their own actions so introspectively. Perhaps comparing it to the classic english teacher interpreting meaning behind a work for he class that the author never intended.
But I suppose it really doesn't matter - if people get something from a work it really makes no difference if the intent was there with the creation.
I agree. I expect their actions are not introspective but reactionary. Nevertheless, I think there's a logic behind them consistent with the sort explored by behavioral economists.
Doesn't seem too different than the usual teenage hubris. Kids think adults are boring on purpose and try to disrupt the social order to make life more interesting. They don't realize order and a good life is actually quite hard to maintain, and a bit of boring is the cost of living well.
As an American, I have a demoralizing sense that the country has given up on doing great things and, more specifically, turned its back on underdogs. I could make a more detailed case, starting with my view of human nature and extending to the latest Supreme Court decisions and the drivel I see nosing around Twitter and Facebook, but that would be sort of beside the point here.
Why gamers and book forum readers? I don't have anything against them personally and I agree there are probably more suitable targets. At the same time, obsessive game-players and score-keeping book-readers offer an obvious illustration for the kind of obliviousness and escapism that I can find symptomatic of larger social problems.
I suspect Lulzsec owes part of its style to The Joker from the last Batman movie. Remember that scene when the Joker lights the pile of money on fire? I agree Anonymous is a more constructive example of civil disobedience. But Lulzsec, in its aimlessness, may be the more potent symbol. I see it as a form of satire as much as anything.
Would my attitude would change if, say, they deleted my gmail account? Probably. But then maybe there would be something constructive in that, too.