{"id":395457,"date":"2019-02-07T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/are-we-moderns-or-terrestrials\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:46:11","slug":"are-we-moderns-or-terrestrials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/are-we-moderns-or-terrestrials\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we Moderns or Terrestrials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_109046\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109046 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/02\/fullsizeoutput_e0a-510x383.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/02\/fullsizeoutput_e0a.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/02\/fullsizeoutput_e0a-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/02\/fullsizeoutput_e0a-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We, in the United States,are accustomed to discriminatory segregation, accustomed to those excluded, and to those left behind. Brian Stevenson notes, in a <em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>interview, 01.20.19, \u201cSlavery didn\u2019t end in 1865; it just evolved.\u201d It evolved through the sabotaging of Reconstruction, through lynching, through institutionalized segregation, and through mass incarceration (as is made explicit in the Equal Justice Initiative\u2019s permanent museum exhibit, \u2018<em>From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration\u2019<\/em>in Montgomery, Alabama). It has also evolved through a deliberate program of mass immiseration conducted by the government\u2019s withholding of adequate education, social services and living-wage work \u2013 with the notable exception of impressment into military service on behalf of the nation\u2019s imperial juggernaut. And it has evolved, in this broadened notion of slavery, which might reasonably include all servitude to the economic benefit of rich and powerful, mostly white-male elites, to encompass peoples of color and the white underclass, the white working class and the white middle class. A similar process of division, of segregation, between the exploiters and the exploited, has, since the advent of colonization, separated the Global North from the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1509530576\/counterpunchmaga\"><em>Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime<\/em><\/a>, 2018, Bruno Latour, the French philosopher and sociologist, writes, \u201cTo the migrants from&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/07\/are-we-moderns-or-terrestrials\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair We, in the United States,are accustomed to discriminatory segregation, accustomed to those excluded, and to those left behind. Brian Stevenson notes, in a New York Times\u00a0interview, 01.20.19, \u201cSlavery didn\u2019t end in 1865; it just evolved.\u201d It evolved through the sabotaging of Reconstruction, through lynching, through institutionalized segregation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395457","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\/395457","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}