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For newcomers, more items from the archives.
New, Leftwing Physics Discovered.
“Passive overeating” is a global pandemic, so Guardianistas want the state to stop us eating.
Setting aside the surreal wording and overt authoritarianism, there’s something vaguely unpleasant about a group of richer people – say, left-leaning doctors, columnists and academics – demanding constraints and punitive taxes on proletarian food. Taxes and constraints that would leave themselves largely unaffected.
Terrorising Coffee Drinkers for the Greater Good.
Guardian hearts Occupier. Said Occupier hearts smashing other people’s stuff.
Prior to smashing windows and hitting police officers with 8 foot long steel pipes, the Occupiers had gathered at an anarchist book fair, where leaflets and workshops promised a softer, fairer, fluffier world. (“Indigenous solidarity event with Native Resistance Network.” “Equal rights for all species.” “Children welcome!”) In this temple of warrior poets and ostentatious empathy, the “activist and educator” Cindy Milstein cooed over Occupy’s “direct democracy and cooperation”: “This compelling and quirky, beautiful and at times messy experimentation has cracked open a window on history, affording us a rare chance to grow these uprisings into the new landscape of a caring, ecological, and egalitarian society.” Occupy, says Milstein, is all about “facilitating a conversation in hopes of better strategizing toward increasingly expansive forms of freedom.” Its participants, we learn, are “non-hierarchical and anti-oppression.” See, it’s all fluff and twinkles. It’s just that some of the twinklers like to wear masks and balaclavas – the universal symbol of friendliness and caring – while trying to shatter glass onto Starbucks customers.
Because Artists Are So Dangerous.
Bettina Camilla Vestergaard creates “an uninhibited space for creative thought and action.” Radical grass-tearing ensues.
Decenter was, we’re told, a place for artists who longed to escape “the choking effects of the market,” and who wished to air their “radical and uncompromising thoughts,” thereby creating “a more humanely oriented society.” You see, these precious flowers are choked by the market, implying as it does a reciprocal arrangement with the rube footing the bill. A parasitic relationship, in which the taxpayer has no say and is essentially irrelevant, is much more liberating.
And remember,
Now waste your afternoon in the greatest hits.
Bettina Camilla Vestergaard creates “an uninhibited space for creative thought and action.” Radical grass-tearing ensues.
Seriously, those idiots should be hunted for sport.
“Seriously, those idiots should be hunted for sport.”
Vestergaard’s “park intervention” would have been more interesting if the participants had been obliged to contend with a few lions. People might actually pay to see these fraudsters trying to make art while perched precariously in trees, surrounded by large carnivores.
Sort of, I’m a Conceptual Artist, Get Me Out of Here.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/peter-thiel-eric-schmidt/
Last paragraph hehe
“Vestergaard’s “park intervention” would have been more interesting if the participants had been obliged to contend with a few lions.”
Well, it would have appealed to their apparent martyr complex. Or cured them of it? Haha, no, I kid. Never let the thought pass through their precious fontanelles.
“Equal rights for all species.”
Stop the smallpox genocide! No smallpox, no Peace! (clenched fist salute!)
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Some, including much of the occupy movement, seem less like people trying to achieve a particular goal and more like people trying to create a bit of theater. Creating drama, a story and a kind of fame can be more effective for radicalizing than saying “Hey let’s go hand out pamphlets and talk to people about how utopia is just around the corner but not accomplish anything discernible!” Why let a concrete goal get in the way when no matter what happens you can declare victory and then change the subject. Sometimes the point is not to think but to get other people not to think and simply to join.
Some people aren’t trying to make sense. The question is how to determine those real life trolls from those who can be argued with and are interested in an honest discussion.