{"id":294647,"date":"2017-02-13T20:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/something-is-happening\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:09:22","slug":"something-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/something-is-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is happening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Something is happening here, but you don\u2019t know what it is: Do you<\/a>?\u00a0 No one knows, really, as this something <\/em>is still evolving. \u00a0As we look back to 2016, though, it is abundantly clear that history has awoken from its slumber. We\u2019ve had a couple events <\/em>in the West last year: Brexit and Trump.<\/p>\n

Politically-charged, dynamic events<\/a> (as Alain Badiou might define them) have been rare in the West since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR. Capitalism made it seem as if neoliberalism was winning in the 1990s, even as the US wantonly murdered in Iraq and took perverse pleasure in helping to dismember Yugoslavia, among other things.<\/p>\n

In fact, one could argue there have only been four notable Western political events in the post-Cold War era: the 9\/11 attacks, the 2003 protests against the Iraq War, the 2008 banking crisis and following protest movements of 2011 (Occupy and 15-M Movement), and the populist, anger-driven aforementioned events of 2016.<\/p>\n

You see, authentic, spontaneous political events (in the form of uprisings or popular revolts against the elite) are a no-no in the West. History is supposed to have ended, remember? Max Weber called this the Iron Cage, and for good reason.<\/p>\n

Now, though, the meaninglessness and rootless of our lives trapped inside the cage have become too obvious to ignore, for most of us. As each day passes, our political discourse glosses over how lazy, ignorant, mean-spirited, and numb our society has become. We…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Something is happening here, but you don\u2019t know what it is: Do you?\u00a0 No one knows, really, as this something is still evolving. \u00a0As we look back to 2016, though, it is abundantly clear that history has awoken from its slumber. We\u2019ve had a couple events in the West last year: Brexit and Trump. Politically-charged, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}