More on flash mobs

Plas­tic piece on Flash Mobs: All The Action, None Of The Respon­si­bil­ity. Inter­est­ing point, though the riot part prob­a­bly requires a few other things of the participant’s minds than just the abil­ity to flash mob. This, how­ever, is one of the rea­sons why it can’t go on for­ever. How long will this be fun:

It’s a spec­ta­cle for spectacle’s sake — which is silly, but is also, as I’ve dis­cov­ered some­what to my sur­prise, gen­uinely trans­gres­sive, which is part of its appeal, I think. Peo­ple feel like there’s noth­ing but order every­where, and so they love to be a part of just one thing that nobody was expecting.

Mean­while on Smart­Mobs, Roland Pique­paille points out the dif­fer­ence between smart mobs and flash mobs. Which (back in the Plas­tic piece) makes good sense; smart mobs are a the vehi­cle mak­ing flash mobs pos­si­ble, and while most flash mobs are pure fun and games (though likely to be a lot less fun very soon), in the right hands they’re capa­ble of mak­ing some quite con­vinc­ing manifestations:

Oth­ers, mean­while, have adapted flash mob­bing to ful­fill their activist agen­das. Boston’s Reg­gie Cum­mings, for instance, ‘coor­di­nates “friendly takeovers” by crowds of black yup­pies of down­town bars with a tra­di­tion­ally white clien­tele’. The genius orgina­tor of flash mob­bing, ‘Bill’, sim­ply appre­ci­ates its sub­ver­sive value

[Lis­ten­ing to: Paper Tiger — Beck — Sea Change (04:35)]
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