Intro

This chapter starts with a promotional segment for Fourth of July savings on a Traeger Grill, followed by an ad for Celsius energy drinks. It concludes with a poignant account from a young activist about their experience being intercepted by Israeli forces while delivering aid to Gaza, highlighting the humanitarian crisis in the region.

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Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learns more, and networks with other activists around the world, she’s become a scourge for liberals as well.

Many of them would prefer she remain a child, providing a theatre of emotional catharsis for a climate crisis industry more interested in raising money from green economy donors than forcing change.

Now, as Thunberg broadens her target to capitalism and colonialism writ large, it’s more and more clear that she’s confronting what autistic philosopher Robert Chapman calls “the empire of normality”, from her lived experience of autism, about which so many of the conspiracy theories we cover here swirl.

CORRECTION: Robert Chapman's pronouns are they/them.

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