{"id":339,"date":"2025-01-14T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/the-integrationist-fantasy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:19:02","slug":"the-integrationist-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/the-integrationist-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Integrationist Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/the-integrationist-fantasy?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Top<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> o&#39; the Stack.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>E pluribus unum?<\/em>&#0160;Out of many, one? It can work, and it did work for a time, though not perfectly. But thanks to \u2018progressives,\u2019 regression has set in. Whether a One can be made of Many depends on the nature of the Many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A viable One cannot be made out of just any Many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">To think otherwise is to succumb to what I call the Integrationist Fantasy. This is the dangerous conceit that people can be brought together peacefully and productively despite deep differences in their languages, religions, cultures, traditions, and values.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-integrationist-fantasy\">Read it all<\/a>; it&#39;s short: your Twitterized (X&#39;ed out?) brain will be able to process it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o&#39; the Stack. E pluribus unum?&#0160;Out of many, one? It can work, and it did work for a time, though not perfectly. But thanks to \u2018progressives,\u2019 regression has set in. Whether a One can be made of Many depends on the nature of the Many. A viable One cannot be made out of just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/the-integrationist-fantasy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Integrationist Fantasy&#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":[26,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-substack","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}