{"id":774,"date":"2022-04-10T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:28:32","slug":"nyt-oped-kim-and-pete-or-vladimir-and-volodymyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"NYT OPED: Kim and Pete, or Vladimir and Volodymyr?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|4px||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h1 id=\"link-5259fa40\" class=\"css-xkf25q e1h9rw200\" data-testid=\"headline\">Kim and Pete, or Vladimir and Volodymyr?<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0Comment by Louisa Loveridge Gallas, NYT<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Kim and Pete, or Vladimir and Volodymyr?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F04%2F09%2Fopinion%2Fukraine-russia-war-attention.html#?secret=5eDL3qlt6Y\" data-secret=\"5eDL3qlt6Y\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Ms. Dowd, the large challenges are so hard to keep in focus, the gothic shadow of climate change, the sadistic brutality of Putin\u2019s war; our attention span and our souls grow weary. We fall into the abyss of end times consciousness. Don\u2019t be too hard, though, on how we divert to glittery shiny things, so long as we don\u2019t get addicted. I admit I have moments of fascination with the stunning gleam of Kim Kardashian and her sleepy eyed, pale, tattooed beloved. The Slap issued in cultural, patriarchal discussions of male conditioning, sexism, misogyny, trauma, family abuse histories and America\u2019s racism that could awaken solutions and help heal the deep problems that underlie war and climate emergency. Dominance, shame and humiliation, greed, rage, willful ignorance, the need to marginalize the \u2018other\u2019. May we find our better angels within ourselves and embed them in our conditioning and culture, so we may rise, before a chronic self genocide submits to the violence in our nature and our devastation of our Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim and Pete, or Vladimir and Volodymyr? \u00a0Comment by Louisa Loveridge Gallas, NYT https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/09\/opinion\/ukraine-russia-war-attention.html Yes, Ms. Dowd, the large challenges are so hard to keep in focus, the gothic shadow of climate change, the sadistic brutality of Putin\u2019s war; our attention span and our souls grow weary. We fall into the abyss of end times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}