{"id":1674,"date":"2012-05-28T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:08:29","slug":"set-yourself-on-fire-to-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/set-yourself-on-fire-to-change-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Set yourself on fire to change the world."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must demand the greatest will power.\u00a0 It must demand selfless sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>To set yourself on fire to bring attention to injustice.<\/p>\n<p>It still happens in our world in which we think everything is OK.\u00a0 (BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-18231550\">Tibetan men in &#8216;first self-immolations in Lhasa&#8217;<\/a>) We may not need to martyr ourselves though our political system is not free from autocratic methods.\u00a0 Very sad.<\/p>\n<p>I keep this image of a Thai student self-immolating against government corruption in 1990 to remind me of what other people do to make the world a better place:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Khun Thanayuth self immolates\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/burnthanayuth19901009.jpg?resize=300%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must demand the greatest will power.\u00a0 It must demand selfless sacrifice. To set yourself on fire to bring attention to injustice. It still happens in our world in which we think everything is OK.\u00a0 (BBC: Tibetan men in &#8216;first self-immolations in Lhasa&#8217;) We may not need to martyr ourselves though our political system is &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/set-yourself-on-fire-to-change-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Set yourself on fire to change the world.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-r0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}