{"id":315171,"date":"2021-09-17T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T08:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=214269"},"modified":"2021-09-17T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T08:59:04","slug":"roaming-charges-taxing-representations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/17\/roaming-charges-taxing-representations\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Taxing Representations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everything Tom Wolfe wrote about the glitterati left in the late 60s has been recapitulated in subsequent decades, with the faux radicalism diminishing into hip liberalism and the artistic pretense inflating into camp couture for the one-percent. It's beyond parody. In the 60s, the message wouldn't have been \"Tax the Rich\" but \"Fuck the Rich\", \"Eat the Rich\", \"Infect the Rich.\" As a radical artistic statement, AOC's catwalk at the Met Gala was pathetic, a commercial aimed at the most middlebrow donors to the DNC. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/17\/roaming-charges-26\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/17\/roaming-charges-26\/\">Roaming Charges: Taxing Representations<\/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\/2021\/09\/17\/roaming-charges-26\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everything Tom Wolfe wrote about the glitterati left in the late 60s has been recapitulated in subsequent decades, with the faux radicalism diminishing into hip liberalism and the artistic pretense inflating into camp couture for the one-percent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,1076],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315171"}],"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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315287,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315171\/revisions\/315287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}