{"id":4230,"date":"2014-06-11T02:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2014-06-11T02:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:15:29","slug":"elite-smooth-and-completely-indifferent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/06\/11\/elite-smooth-and-completely-indifferent\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite, smooth and completely indifferent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a typical image of a fashionable woman that can be found in Korean advertising. In this particularly case, fashion is the product. But the important feature is spiritual, not visual. I want to ask you, if you can imagine how this woman would think and behave.<\/p>\n<p>Would she strive to reduce poverty and injustice in our society? Would she take a deep interest in the well being of working people in her community? Would she give generously to environmental movements and do everything in her power to reduce waste?<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, we do not know, but the surface appearance given is one of radical elitism, of a smooth detachment and a complete indifference to the fate of\u00a0our society and our biosphere. I find more and more advertisements that employ this particular posture \u00a0popping up in Seoul and they disturb me deeply. To think that \u00a0young girls may be thinking about such a posture as an ideal is tragic, if not criminal, in terms of its greater implications for \u00a0humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-05-30-15-23-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4231\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-05-30-15-23-22.jpg?w=630\" alt=\"2014-05-30 15.23.22\" width=\"630\" height=\"839\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a typical image of a fashionable woman that can be found in Korean advertising. In this particularly case, fashion is the product. But the important feature is spiritual, not visual. I want to ask you, if you can imagine how this woman would think and behave. Would she strive to reduce poverty and &#8230; <a title=\"Elite, smooth and completely indifferent\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/06\/11\/elite-smooth-and-completely-indifferent\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elite, smooth and completely indifferent\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}