{"id":7005,"date":"2019-10-02T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2019-10-02T07:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:14:47","slug":"veritable-uprising-or-the-faux-real-thing-greta-and-climate-activism-in-a-wilderness-of-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=7005","title":{"rendered":"Veritable Uprising or The (Faux) Real Thing&#x2122;: Greta and Climate Activism in a Wilderness of Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/09\/30\/veritable-uprising-or-the-faux-real-thing-greta-and-climate-activism-in-a-wilderness-of-projections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenn Orphan and Phil Rockstroh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Street demonstrations, even large ones, are apropos of nothing as long as they are manifested as de facto state sanctioned protests. A march proceeds, chants are cast into indifferent air, speechifying comes to pass by the usual gasbags then the assembled head home and carry on as usual. Conversely, a strike means job walk-offs \u2014 until the strikers demands are met \u2014 not walking out and walking back in the next day.<\/p>\n<p>These are not revolutionary activities or even a political movement. Capitalist colonisation has been internalised to such a saturating degree that demonstrations are, in the neoliberal era, designed to be toothless and non-threatening in regard to the structures of capitalist power. Conversely, a strike translates to stopping the flow of capital \u2014 otherwise it amounts to enabling business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>KO: It seems that the colonization of consciousness in Western society has become completely seamless that here, in 2019, most of us have been conditioned to accept a modified and sanitized version of dissent. For several years there have been faux forms of dissent, manufactured and peddled by the corporate and political and military\/intelligent\/surveillance establishments that serve as valves for the public\u2019s general feelings of unease or sense of injustice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenn Orphan and Phil Rockstroh: Street demonstrations, even large ones, are apropos of nothing as long as they are manifested as de facto state sanctioned protests. A march proceeds, chants are cast into indifferent air, speechifying comes to pass by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=7005\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}