{"id":5869,"date":"2010-02-23T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T09:23:04","slug":"complaint-choirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5869","title":{"rendered":"complaint choirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the folks at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.complaintschoir.org\/\"> complaintchoir.org<\/a>,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>In the Finnish vocabulary there is an expression &#8220;Valituskuoro&#8221;. It means &#8220;Complaints Choir&#8221; and it is used to describe situations where a lot of people are complaining simultaneously. [Talervo] Kalleinen and [Oliver] Kochta-Kalleinen thought: &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be fantastic to take this expression literally and organise a real Complaints Choir!&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to their work, there have been complaint choirs around the world. Here&#8217;s an example from Chicago:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GvWVxHEaWDU&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GvWVxHEaWDU&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In a serious mode, I would complain about these complaints&#8211;where are the solutions? But I&#8217;m happy to lighten up and enjoy the show, in particular the natural juxtaposition of the merely personal with the grandly political: &#8220;Our president is a cowboy \/ I hate my homeowners association.&#8221; It&#8217;s the l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/mt\/archives\/2010\/01\/habermas-illust.html \">ifeworld and the public sphere<\/a> all mashed together and set to music. A democratic art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the folks at complaintchoir.org, In the Finnish vocabulary there is an expression &#8220;Valituskuoro&#8221;. It means &#8220;Complaints Choir&#8221; and it is used to describe situations where a lot of people are complaining simultaneously. [Talervo] Kalleinen and [Oliver] Kochta-Kalleinen thought: &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be fantastic to take this expression literally and organise a real Complaints Choir!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}