{"id":439,"date":"2024-11-12T07:13:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T07:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/the-enemies-of-liberty-will-not-go-quietly-into-the-night\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T07:13:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T07:13:47","slug":"the-enemies-of-liberty-will-not-go-quietly-into-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/the-enemies-of-liberty-will-not-go-quietly-into-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enemies of Liberty “Will not go Quietly into the Night”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the morning of November 6th, I wrote<\/a>, "But this is no time to gloat over the defeat  of our enemies. They will not give up or give in."  Here<\/a> is how Peter Boghossian makes the point. (A little over six minutes.)  <\/span><\/p>\n

Now that we of the Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable (my title not Boghossian's) have gained momentum, we must not rest on our laurels, but fight even harder, as Boghossian puts it, "to drive the final nail into the coffin" of our enemies. One drives a nail with a hammer. But hammers have other uses as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

I am reminded of the subtitle to Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols<\/strong>: Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert<\/em>, "How one philosophizes with a hammer." Nietzsche's hammer is an icon-buster. (There is a passage, however, in which he likens his hammer to a tuning-fork with which the sounds out the idols for their soundness, and finds them hollow. My way of putting it, not his.) <\/span><\/p>\n

We patriots have an iconoclastic task before us: the smashing of the idols of the leftist tribe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the morning of November 6th, I wrote, "But this is no time to gloat over the defeat  of our enemies. They will not give up or give in."  Here is how Peter Boghossian makes the point. (A little over six minutes.)  Now that we of the Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable (my … Continue reading “The Enemies of Liberty “Will not go Quietly into the Night””<\/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":[76,44,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nietzsche","category-political-tactics","category-political-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}