{"id":87395,"date":"2024-04-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87395"},"modified":"2024-04-22T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:14:43","slug":"feature-not-a-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87395","title":{"rendered":"Feature, Not A Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the wake of three episodes of pro-Palestine protesters burning themselves to death, the sixties &#8211; the radical-chic version &#8211; called to tell the left of the 2020s to dial back the crazy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: UCLA medical school\u2019s psychiatry department hosted a talk this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of &quot;revolutionary suicide.&quot;<br><br>We have obtained audio of the talk, which argued  taboos on self-immolation serve &quot;the interests of power.&quot;\ud83e\uddf5<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95SxWsnl7z\">https:\/\/t.co\/95SxWsnl7z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lud8ymWO8n\">pic.twitter.com\/Lud8ymWO8n<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronsibarium\/status\/1778805049033969983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, if &#8220;interests of power&#8221; = weeding out the most insane elements of the crowd that also wants to self-immolate Western Civilization, she may have a point.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, it&#8217;s a teeeeeny little step from this to &#8220;not immolating <em>other <\/em>&#8216;serves the interests of power'&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of three episodes of pro-Palestine protesters burning themselves to death, the sixties &#8211; the radical-chic version &#8211; called to tell the left of the 2020s to dial back the crazy: I mean, if &#8220;interests of power&#8221; = weeding out the most insane elements of the crowd that also wants to self-immolate Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,458,426,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-gaza-2023","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87400,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87395\/revisions\/87400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}