One sentiment I am seeing from those who support or participate in the looting and destruction of property is some variation of, "it can be replaced/rebuilt." The rioters/protesters mean to make the bigger point that human life cannot be replaced, but we can always make more stuff. A man died but some fret over broken glass and stolen plastic. Conservatives appear callous since they seem far more outraged by destruction of objects than loss of life. Not saying that that is the whole story, but that is how it can come across.
If we take off our niggerhating goggles for a second, we can see that this sentiment, that life is more valuable than property/goods, has potential, even though it is buried in the chimping. When a rioter says that property can be rebuilt, technically he is right, but it seems to me that he has not given a moments thought, recently or ever, as to how things like buildings come to be built.
We can ask ourselves how come so many people just assume that things will get rebuilt and replaced after getting torched to the ground or stolen, and it is not from how they just got back from a community barn raising. And then we can look into the long-term, ongoing separation of citizens from productive/constructive labor, as well as the social decomposition which deprives them of a sense of meaningful and rooted belonging to their environment (note the rise of Black Centricism/We Wuz Kangz, White Nationalism ala children of Muslim expats running off to join ISIS). Who actually does much of the physical building and producing in America? Is it really "Americans"? Is it those with a deep American heritage and tangible ties to the land, brought up in a tradition of manual, skilled and agricultural labor?
Our barons of free enterprise offshored and outsourced much of that socially and psychically formative work, then cheapened and degraded what was left of it with mass immigration. So that (apart from the wealth disparity and entrenchment of an elite class of degenerates that these economic measures exacerbated), many have grown up in an environment where buildings magically pop up and products magically flow in from some distant, unknown land.
They just do not have any real experience with building or maintaining anything physical that is meant to last, that is designed to outlive their fleeting fascination with the new line of smart buttplugs. Having your own blogspace or managing your linkedin profile is not the same. When you add digital addiction into the mix, with even the "normies" spending too much time online yelling at each other about controversies, you get a detachment from your surroundings and a smoldering rage which can only express itself as destruction of what is seen as having no value anyway.
But the rot is deeper, in that many not only don't care about their physical surroundings since they don't know what it means to build or protect them, but they don't care much about their immediate community. The detachment from physical reality feeds into a detachment from others, who remain physical beings, who establish communities through shared and continuous presence which has been shredded by both economic churn and other factors like technology creating a dysfunctional feedback loop of the isolated compulsively consuming things they don't even value, which pushes them even farther away from others.
The chimps aren't breaking into Target and taking products since they think they're valuable, but from on some level knowing they're garbage. They are fine burning down "communities" since they aren't really communities. They live in hastily and cheaply constructed apartments next to an interchangeable cast of myopic strangers who spend most of their time in their bedrooms with the curtains closed and thirty tabs open.
And, sorry to say, those small businesses that you want to latch onto weren't going to make it anyway even before the corona lockdown. Let's not act as if those high density urban areas with high neighborhood turnover and a new Chipotle's every year and a half were tightly knit communities until the Negroes starting breaking shit.
When they say the life of George Floyd is more important than property they touch on an important point, but they miss how his worth might have already been drained while he was alive. Who gave a damn about him when he was alive, did he even care about himself? His life only matters to others now since he's dead. But that apparent Negro indifference to all but the most sensationalized and scripted outrages is our shared condition as well. Not just the simple observation of the Black's inability to act White.
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