{"id":3018,"date":"2020-07-14T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/the-revolt-of-the-worthless\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:33:28","slug":"the-revolt-of-the-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/the-revolt-of-the-worthless\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolt of the Worthless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Across the land the erasure of history via the destruction of monuments and memorials is proceeding apace. The worthless and unaccomplished are attacking the memories of people of great worth and accomplishment. Where are the authorities to whom we have entrusted the preservation of civilization? In abdication, mainly. They lack the will to put a stop to the rampages of dangerous children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And children they are. Their thinking lacks all depth and nuance. Theirs is an adolescent passion unconstrained by either knowledge or wisdom. And yet adult fools take the likes of Greta Thunberg and A. Ocasio-Cortez seriously, granting them positions of power and influence. This too is a form of abdication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">You know what you have to do come November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0263ec27ef24200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apple Liberal\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0263ec27ef24200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0263ec27ef24200c-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Apple Liberal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the land the erasure of history via the destruction of monuments and memorials is proceeding apace. The worthless and unaccomplished are attacking the memories of people of great worth and accomplishment. Where are the authorities to whom we have entrusted the preservation of civilization? In abdication, mainly. They lack the will to put a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/the-revolt-of-the-worthless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Revolt of the Worthless&#8221;<\/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":[180,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-nihilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","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=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}