i called this event a "revolution" earlier but its funny that insurrection and revolt have been so thoroughly neutralized that this is what they amount to in the modern day, the aimless seizure of a symbolic space

revolt in a world where revolt is abolished i guess

the importance of this event can be placed in the dynamic between the attempted protestors and the authorities even in an act that is clearly a violation of said authorities supposed powers

state power has so thoroughly diffused itself that the imposition of ones will upon a physical space has become almost entirely symbolic and yet it remains the primary mode of antagonism between state and "revolutionaries"

as an example contrast with BLM: the physical burning of a waffle house poses no real danger to state power, and yet it was met with far more force and treated far more seriously because of the symbolic relationship of so called "black violence" to the public sphere

which is controlled and dominated by white people

the police didnt react here because the people storming the capitol are exactly the people that control it already. even symbolically its practically meaningless

this is not to say that as an event this doesnt matter, or that the growing willingness of the right to attack and demand direct control over state institutions is not a threat. it certainly is. but not because someone sat on nancy pelosis chair lmao