{"id":2131,"date":"2022-04-05T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/homo-americanus-the-rise-of-totalitarian-democracy-in-america\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:02:53","slug":"homo-americanus-the-rise-of-totalitarian-democracy-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/homo-americanus-the-rise-of-totalitarian-democracy-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Homo Americanus: The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Ordered yesterday, arrived today. That&#39;s what I call service. Only in America, but then what&#39;s with the &#39;wokery&#39; of Bezos and the boys?&#0160; Turn the USA into a Soviet-style shithole and then what motive would anyone have to innovate? A bit of a paradox. Did the US defeat the SU to become SU 2?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">By Zbigniew Janowski.&#0160; I found the reference in <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2022\/03\/political-ponerology.html\">Political Ponerology<\/a>.&#0160; Afterword by Ryszard Legutko, the author of <em>The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies<\/em>, Encounter Books, 2016, 2018. It entered my library on 14 February 2021, a gift from Brian Bosse.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Should we of the Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable be supporting Amazon with our purchases? I started a post on that question a while ago.&#0160; It languishes in the queue.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c027880753ab0200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Delivered!\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c027880753ab0200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c027880753ab0200d-320wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Delivered!\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Addendum<\/em>. Dave Bagwill recommends Alistair Elder, <em>The Red Trojan Horse: A Concise Analysis of Cultural Marxism<\/em>, 2017. Also available via Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordered yesterday, arrived today. That&#39;s what I call service. Only in America, but then what&#39;s with the &#39;wokery&#39; of Bezos and the boys?&#0160; Turn the USA into a Soviet-style shithole and then what motive would anyone have to innovate? A bit of a paradox. Did the US defeat the SU to become SU 2? By &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/homo-americanus-the-rise-of-totalitarian-democracy-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Homo Americanus: The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America<\/i>&#8220;<\/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":[389,289,295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia","category-books","category-pathocracy-and-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}