{"id":1439,"date":"2012-05-27T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T18:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2013-02-24T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T16:17:32","slug":"the-shock-doctrine-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1439","title":{"rendered":"The Shock Doctrine Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1439\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Though it&#8217;s been out for a few years, the documentary on Naomi Klein\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/shock-doctrine\/the-book\" target=\"_blank\">The Schock Doctrine<\/a><\/em> remains a powerful and illuminating summary of her ideas. I thought I&#8217;d post it again.<\/p>\n<p>Klein has faced some criticism by those you might consider to be her natural allies on the progressive left. Perhaps it&#8217;s because she is an attractive woman, or maybe it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s a celebrity reporter rather than an academic. Whatever the case, I think the criticism is unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>Her central thesis remains sound and useful. Shock and crises do not<em> cause<\/em> neo-liberal &#8220;eruptions&#8221;, but they do provide excellent opportunities for neo-liberal academics and politicians to push through drastic policies on a stunned and exhausted populace. As such, disaster capitalism becomes a vital window that exposes neo-liberalism in its rawest and most vicious form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"315\" height=\"253\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7iW1SHPgUAQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it&#8217;s been out for a few years, the documentary on Naomi Klein\u2019s\u00a0The Schock Doctrine remains a powerful and illuminating summary of her ideas. I thought I&#8217;d post it again. Klein has faced some criticism by those you might consider to be her natural allies on the progressive left. Perhaps it&#8217;s because she is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8,11,15],"tags":[132,130,35,131,37,129],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-canadian-politics","category-economic-issues","category-global-issues","category-modern-culture","tag-capitalism","tag-doctrine","tag-economics","tag-global","tag-inequality","tag-shock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}