{"id":60554,"date":"2020-09-28T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=60554"},"modified":"2020-09-27T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T16:04:48","slug":"its-been-a-while-since-these-stickers-occupied-pride-of-place-on-every-prius-bumper-hasnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/09\/28\/its-been-a-while-since-these-stickers-occupied-pride-of-place-on-every-prius-bumper-hasnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a while since these stickers occupied pride of place on every Prius bumper, hasn’t it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Chrenkoff<\/a> wonders “Whatever happened to ‘Free Tibet’?”<\/p>\n

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With its heyday probably twenty years ago, it used to be a major cause celebre for artists and activists, with bumper stickers adorning countless cars, including \u2013 proverbially \u2013 the early Priuses. It was mostly a thing of the left (certainly in Australia it was largely associated with the Greens) and the hippies and New Agers enchanted by the wit and wisdom of the Dalai Lama, spruiking his version of Buddhism from exile. This probably scared many people off, which is a pity because the question of Tibetan independence shouldn’t be judged on the merits of its incense burning Western supporters.<\/p>\n

So what happened? Tibet is certainly still not free \u2013 if anything the things have gotten worse on the rooftop of the world \u2013 but the campaign has largely dropped out of the public consciousness. I don’t quite know the answer myself. Maybe some political causes, like fashion trends, have limited life spans. Maybe the left has learned to stop worrying and live with China as one of the few viable alternatives to the “Western neoliberal world order”. Maybe China has become too rich and powerful to hope that candle-lit vigils for Lhasa will do any good.<\/p>\n

So what’s been happening<\/a> in Tibet lately, just out of interest?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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