{"id":3038,"date":"2020-07-09T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/among-the-iconoclasts\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:55:30","slug":"among-the-iconoclasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/among-the-iconoclasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Among the Iconoclasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glancing at my referrals, I noticed a link from a weblog by the name of Idlings<\/a>. The entry, Among the Iconoclasts<\/a>, caught my eye, and a good entry it is. Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can see that the battle is already lost in the rising generation of ideologues: kids chanting slogans and marching lockstep round the elementary school; college sophomores spitting on a cultural inheritance they don\u2019t understand; younger members of the newspaper editorial staff booting old-school liberals out the door for the impertinence of still believing, a little, in free speech and open debate. Rather than being educated into a sense of common purpose and shared endeavor, the young today are indoctrinated into faction and grievance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The battle may well be lost. But we don't know that it is. So we ought to fight on.  But the Political does not exhaust the Real, and so the fight against our political enemies must remain a part-time affair.  This puts us conservatives at a disadvantage, but it would be worse to become like those we oppose.<\/span><\/p>\n

So contemplate the constellations; read the great books our enemies would burn; retire from the desperate cities into nature. And if you can, look beyond time's horizon to the Source of this passing show the vanity of which will be verified by its vanishing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glancing at my referrals, I noticed a link from a weblog by the name of Idlings. The entry, Among the Iconoclasts, caught my eye, and a good entry it is. Excerpt: You can see that the battle is already lost in the rising generation of ideologues: kids chanting slogans and marching lockstep round the elementary … Continue reading “Among the Iconoclasts”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}