There is a certain type of modern activist who believes they are not merely protesting, but participating in history.
Phone in hand.
Encrypted chat open.
A city map glowing like a tactical command screen.
In their own minds, they are not agitators or activists.
They are Joan of Arc.
History, however, is rarely kind to cosplay.
Joan of Arc did not operate anonymously.
She did not coordinate through chat apps.
She did not track authorities from the shadows and call it bravery.
She stood openly, believed she answered to a higher authority, and accepted the full weight of consequence for that belief.
That distinction matters.
Today’s Social Justice Warrior wants the mythology of resistance without the reality of sacrifice:
Defiance without accountability
Courage without exposure
Heroism without cost
What we are witnessing is not rebellion—it is LARPing.
Live-action role-playing where the participant imagines themselves as the hero of a grand narrative.
Tracking law enforcement with phones, mapping cities, coordinating movements through encrypted apps—none of that is inherently noble or heroic. And none of it magically transforms obstruction into righteousness.
Joan of Arc confronted an occupying force in a feudal war.
These protesters are tracking lawfully operating federal agents in a constitutional republic—often while livestreaming.
Well this is not a crusade; and it’s not martyrdom.
It’s theater with a touch of delusion.
And theater tends to collapse the moment the lights come on and reality walks onto the stage.
I’m Wayne- and that’s my world view. What’s yours?
