I completely agree. When the social outburst occurred in Chile I saw people throwing on the ground or destroying statues and busts of Spanish conquerors or characters of Chile's contemporary history, however, they never had intentions of attacking the US embassy or attacking the headquarters of multinational mineral companies, on the contrary, they only attacked supermarkets or commercial premises of Chilean owners. Then we saw how it all ended, with a pro-imperialist and pro-liberal like Gabriel Boric taking the presidency, burying forever the demands of the working class and working side by side with right-wing economic power and world imperialism.
We have also seen the same phenomenon of progressive liberalism throwing away statues of Spanish conquistadors or Christopher Columbus in states like California. They never attack the United States today. To say that the imperialists are others or those of hundreds of years ago is a very convenient way for the United States and the world right wing to make them believe that they are fighting against something when in reality they are fighting against things already dead and non-existent.
Yep, the progressivist movement has been thoroughly co-opted and that is why corporate interests have not pushed back against it. So what if they have to create a new division of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion and hire another VP to head it? So what if they have to hire some number of 'diverse' VPs and others for their public image. As long as those hires don't rock the corporate boat (and they won't), it's cheap virtue-washing and good public relations.
It's especially helpful that the progressivists focus on feelings of victimhood based on past events, decades or centuries ago, because those feelings can be assuaged, massaged, and milked with no effect at all on present or future events. Yes, let's all get together and feel terrible about what happened to Emmett Till in 1955. Of course, what happened to him really was awful, but there's no going back in time to fix that. So it's wasted emotion. But strong emotion, which makes you feel more alive, for a little while. It's milking the past for negative emotions, combined with the feeling that you, in contrast, are so much better than those evildoers. Which is the same little jolt you get from watching the morning news program (Good Morning America, especially), which is all made of emotion-pushing stories. Pulling down statues makes you feel like a good person while you have done nothing useful.
It really does start to feel like Live Action Role-Playing and Congress starts to look like some sort of Kabuki theater production; all fierce-looking faces and dramatic poses.
I was working on a telescope in Chile during a student protest against the privatization of universities. The telescope brought me in laying down in the back seat of a nondescript car ha. In Chile as with most of South/Central Americas have learned of the many decades who is the problem but don't go there. I think that is changing?
I completely agree. When the social outburst occurred in Chile I saw people throwing on the ground or destroying statues and busts of Spanish conquerors or characters of Chile's contemporary history, however, they never had intentions of attacking the US embassy or attacking the headquarters of multinational mineral companies, on the contrary, they only attacked supermarkets or commercial premises of Chilean owners. Then we saw how it all ended, with a pro-imperialist and pro-liberal like Gabriel Boric taking the presidency, burying forever the demands of the working class and working side by side with right-wing economic power and world imperialism.
We have also seen the same phenomenon of progressive liberalism throwing away statues of Spanish conquistadors or Christopher Columbus in states like California. They never attack the United States today. To say that the imperialists are others or those of hundreds of years ago is a very convenient way for the United States and the world right wing to make them believe that they are fighting against something when in reality they are fighting against things already dead and non-existent.
Yep, the progressivist movement has been thoroughly co-opted and that is why corporate interests have not pushed back against it. So what if they have to create a new division of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion and hire another VP to head it? So what if they have to hire some number of 'diverse' VPs and others for their public image. As long as those hires don't rock the corporate boat (and they won't), it's cheap virtue-washing and good public relations.
It's especially helpful that the progressivists focus on feelings of victimhood based on past events, decades or centuries ago, because those feelings can be assuaged, massaged, and milked with no effect at all on present or future events. Yes, let's all get together and feel terrible about what happened to Emmett Till in 1955. Of course, what happened to him really was awful, but there's no going back in time to fix that. So it's wasted emotion. But strong emotion, which makes you feel more alive, for a little while. It's milking the past for negative emotions, combined with the feeling that you, in contrast, are so much better than those evildoers. Which is the same little jolt you get from watching the morning news program (Good Morning America, especially), which is all made of emotion-pushing stories. Pulling down statues makes you feel like a good person while you have done nothing useful.
It really does start to feel like Live Action Role-Playing and Congress starts to look like some sort of Kabuki theater production; all fierce-looking faces and dramatic poses.
I was working on a telescope in Chile during a student protest against the privatization of universities. The telescope brought me in laying down in the back seat of a nondescript car ha. In Chile as with most of South/Central Americas have learned of the many decades who is the problem but don't go there. I think that is changing?