{"id":116,"date":"2025-06-16T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/postmarked-utopia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:06:22","slug":"postmarked-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/postmarked-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmarked Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Ed Farrell, a long-time friend and reader of <em>Maverick Philosopher <\/em>since April 2010, tells me that he has a Substack up and running, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/edwardwfarrell.substack.com\/p\/why-postmarked-utopia\">Postmarked Utopia<\/a>.&#0160; Please do bring him some traffic. Here is the initial paragraph of his inaugural post:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I&#39;ve called this site &quot;Postmarked Utopia&quot; not because I live in Utopia but because I live in a&#0160;<em>wannabe<\/em>&#0160;utopia: the progressive western world, which has once again embarked on the great project of destroying its cultural foundations so that some sort of free-and-equal paradise might rise like a phoenix from the ashes. With variations, this is the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth try at this. At the moment we&#39;re stalled in populist uprisings. Will we get past this? I hope not. If the past is any guide, Utopia is a bitch and delivers only&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/essays\/edward-farrell-states-without-legs-slezkines-house-of-government\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">brain-death and servitude<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Farrell, a long-time friend and reader of Maverick Philosopher since April 2010, tells me that he has a Substack up and running, entitled Postmarked Utopia.&#0160; Please do bring him some traffic. Here is the initial paragraph of his inaugural post: I&#39;ve called this site &quot;Postmarked Utopia&quot; not because I live in Utopia but because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/postmarked-utopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postmarked Utopia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}