{"id":1171633,"date":"2023-08-05T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=142851"},"modified":"2023-08-05T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:02:19","slug":"the-urge-to-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/05\/the-urge-to-destroy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urge to Destroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As humanity recons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.]<\/p>\n<p>Many youth, particularly in France, have channeled this hopelessness into rage. For the past several months the country had been seeing a series of strikes and riots in response to the raising of the retirement age, and these riots intensified in late June after the police murder of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk during a traffic stop. As the dust settles, inept politicians blame bad parenting and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Peru, protesters from around the country have gathered in Lima calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and the dissolution of congress.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"System Fail 25: The Urge to Destroy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/kolektiva.media\/videos\/embed\/896293b0-3618-41ce-93ae-640627db79fc#?secret=2K1DycK4li\" data-secret=\"2K1DycK4li\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humanity recons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.] Many youth, particularly in France, have channeled this hopelessness into rage. For the past several months the country had been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,250,55152,851,28597,480,776,30227,64500,654,13,13086,16,162,4552],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171633"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172369,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171633\/revisions\/1172369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}