First-rate political analysis<\/a> by DiploMad 2.0. (HT: Bill Keezer) <\/span><\/p>\n But there is little to be hopeful or happy about this New Year. 2023 is likely to be worse than the last three. You are well-advised to seek your happiness within. Not that one should withdraw from the fray entirely. Fight on, but not at the expense of your tranquillitas animi<\/em>. For the sake of sanity, dial back your intake of media dreck, 'legacy' and 'social.' This world is a passing scene and a vanishing quantity. And you with it. Take the current slide into the abyss as a warm invitation to seek out the really real<\/a> (\u1f44\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2 \u1f44\u03bd) before it's too late.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First-rate political analysis by DiploMad 2.0. (HT: Bill Keezer) But there is little to be hopeful or happy about this New Year. 2023 is likely to be worse than the last three. You are well-advised to seek your happiness within. Not that one should withdraw from the fray entirely. Fight on, but not at the … Continue reading “2024 and Trump sub specie aeternitatis<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,312,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-political-pessimism","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}