{"id":412,"date":"2024-11-26T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/the-new-yorkers-cavalcade-of-ignorance\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:25:00","slug":"the-new-yorkers-cavalcade-of-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/the-new-yorkers-cavalcade-of-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker<\/i>‘s Cavalcade of Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rag has high production values. I'll say that much for it. Otherwise, the current issue is a tsunami of folderol.  Sample:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerican Fascist,\u201d Yale historian Timothy Snyder\u2019s contribution<\/a>, uses some variation on the word \u201cfascist\u201d 44 times across two and a half pages, along with 15 combined mentions of Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin. One imagines the interior of Snyder\u2019s brain as a scarcely endurable popcorn machine, a rhythm of repetitive hissing and clicking that produces buckets of nearly identical thought kernels. Perhaps silence would be even harder for Snyder to endure. He offers one accidental moment of reflection, which serves to frame the entire New Yorker<\/em> feature: \u201cA fascist is unconcerned with the connection between words and meaning \u2026 When a fascist calls a liberal a \u2018fascist,\u2019 the term begins to work in a different way, as the servant of a particular person, rather than as a bearer of meaning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Snyder believes himself a meaning-bearer in a landscape of lies. He is hardly alone. Exempted from the need to understand or even bother to describe the objects of their disdain, the magazine\u2019s chosen blatherers accuse the invisible masses of the worst possible affronts to democratic order, language, and perhaps reality itself before an audience that is presumed to share their prejudices and to have uniformly voted the same way that they did. They are on one side, with \u201cbad America\u201d arrayed on the other. Snyder quotes the historian Robert Paxton, who warns that \u201cthe Trump phenomenon looks like it has a much more solid social base, which neither Hitler nor Mussolini would have had.\u201d This is a ludicrous, ahistorical, paranoid, self-discrediting, and of course convenient statement for Paxton and Snyder and The New Yorker<\/em>. It allows them to stand bravely against an entire nation of monsters, and just sorta leave it at that.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Read more<\/span><\/a> if you can stomach it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Dems urge Biden to sabotage<\/a> Trump.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Debunking the Debunkers<\/a>. That reminds me of Joe and Mika who paid a visit to Hitler in his bunker.  Did they make it out alive?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rag has high production values. I'll say that much for it. Otherwise, the current issue is a tsunami of folderol.  Sample: \u201cAmerican Fascist,\u201d Yale historian Timothy Snyder\u2019s contribution, uses some variation on the word \u201cfascist\u201d 44 times across two and a half pages, along with 15 combined mentions of Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin. One imagines … Continue reading “The New Yorker<\/i>‘s Cavalcade of Ignorance”<\/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":[49,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}