{"id":2451,"date":"2013-06-29T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T20:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2013-06-29T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T20:10:48","slug":"whence-springs-a-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/29\/whence-springs-a-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Whence Springs a &#8220;Movement&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How does a leader create a movement?\u00a0 An interesting video shows how a lone &#8220;dancing guy,&#8221; who initially comes across as weird or eccentric, is able to get everyone else to join in and thus normalize that weirdness until it is those who do <em>not<\/em> join in who become the &#8220;weird&#8221; ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fW8amMCVAJQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When examining how the Progressive movement went from the musings of a <a title=\"The History of Political Correctness\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/22\/the-history-of-political-correctness\/\" target=\"_blank\">few elitists<\/a> into a leaderless movement, or even a <a title=\"From Technical Ecstasy to \u201cI Can Haz Socializm\u201d: A Stand Alone Complex\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/02\/21\/from-technical-ecstasy-to-i-can-haz-socializm-a-stand-alone-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stand Alone Complex<\/a>, the &#8220;dancing guy&#8221; video is illuminating, and serves as an example, albeit a silly example, of how such a movement as the Progressive movement <a href=\"http:\/\/stranahaninexile.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/13\/video-reality-shift-in-under-three-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\">went from<\/a> &#8220;lone nut[s] to New Conventional Wisdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The veritable Ace over at the Ace of Spades HQ, <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/340880.php\" target=\"_blank\">sums it up<\/a> nicely by calling it &#8220;an analysis of the ideological capture of an institution, expressed through interpretive dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As silly as\u00a0 it is, it is still quite illuminating as to how to explain whence a &#8220;leaderless&#8221; movement came, and how it is not just some spontaneous expression of the &#8220;<em>volont\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How does a leader create a movement?\u00a0 An interesting video shows how a lone &#8220;dancing guy,&#8221; who initially comes across as weird or eccentric, is able to get everyone else to join in and thus normalize that weirdness until it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/29\/whence-springs-a-movement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[24,20,48],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-leviathan","tag-occupy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}