{"id":1164569,"date":"2023-08-01T05:58:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=290334"},"modified":"2023-08-01T05:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:58:28","slug":"oppenheimer-a-revolutionary-fighting-inside-and-against-a-reactionary-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/01\/oppenheimer-a-revolutionary-fighting-inside-and-against-a-reactionary-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppenheimer: A Revolutionary Fighting Inside and Against a Reactionary System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the film, I came to see the dangerous manipulative capacity of\u00a0 the medium I call \u201cidentification with the protagonists.\u201d The audience has all the information to feel that Oppenheimer is an unsympathetic and even unsavory character. \u00a0Oppenheimer drove the project on to conclusion even when he knew that Germany had surrendered. He pushed the project on to defeat the Japanese, and when that rationale could not convince the dedicated scientists who wanted to end the Los Alamos project, he convinced them, or mainly himself, that dropping the bomb, killing and torturing more than 220, ,000 people, was a noble experiment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/01\/oppenheimer-a-revolutionary-fighting-inside-and-against-a-reactionary-system\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/01\/oppenheimer-a-revolutionary-fighting-inside-and-against-a-reactionary-system\/\">Oppenheimer: A Revolutionary Fighting Inside and Against a Reactionary System<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/01\/oppenheimer-a-revolutionary-fighting-inside-and-against-a-reactionary-system\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the film, I came to see the dangerous manipulative capacity of\u00a0 the medium I call \u201cidentification with the protagonists.\u201d The audience has all the information to feel that Oppenheimer is an unsympathetic and even unsavory character. \u00a0Oppenhe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164570,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164569\/revisions\/1164570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}