{"id":359,"date":"2005-01-31T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=359"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:19:14","slug":"activisms-onanist-fantasy-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/01\/31\/activisms-onanist-fantasy-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Activism&#8217;s Onanist Fantasy Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/006186.php\">Winds of Change.NET: Activism&#8217;s Onanist Fantasy Ideology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting article on why a lot of political &#8220;activism&#8221; and protesting &#038; whatnot (which generally looks really dumb to people who have half a brain) is kind of like a religious cult, or something similar. <\/p>\n<p>Definately read the whole thing, if you have the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on why a lot of political &#8220;activism&#8221; and protesting &#038; whatnot (which generally looks really dumb to people who have half a brain) is kind of like a religious cult, or something similar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-5N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":518,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/02\/pretty-much-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":0},"title":"Pretty Much Done","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I'm pretty much done fixing up my blog here - most everything works and generally it looks like it used to.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":504,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/02\/international-cxt\/","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":1},"title":"International CXT","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"An article by Jay Leno about the amazingly oversized International CXT... what is obstensably a \"pickup truck\" built on the same platform used by dump trucks & whatnot. 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