{"id":5522,"date":"2017-05-13T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/a-glimpse-into-the-mind-of-a-leftist-activist\/"},"modified":"2017-05-13T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:43:13","slug":"a-glimpse-into-the-mind-of-a-leftist-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/a-glimpse-into-the-mind-of-a-leftist-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse into the Mind of a Leftist Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an entry bearing the charming title WTF?<\/a> Robert Paul Wolff expresses astonishment at his commenters' discussion of anti-natalism:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have to confess that blogging is weird.  It has its pleasures, but from time to time the conversation here takes a genuinely strange turn.  Anti-natalism?  Seriously?  With all the challenges that face us, with the disaster that is American politics, with the signs, at long last, of a grassroots progressive surge, we are talking about anti-natalism?<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, far be it from me to stifle discussion.  When you are done, I will go on talking about the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From this outburst one can see that for the leftist activist, the political is everything.  One is not talking about the world if one is talking about the value of life and the morality of procreation. For the Stoned Philosopher, questions about life and death, meaning and value, God and the soul, pale into insignificance in comparison to the political squabbles of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our appreciation that the political is a limited sphere leaves us at a political disadvantage over against leftists for whom the political is the only<\/em> sphere. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In an entry bearing the charming title WTF? Robert Paul Wolff expresses astonishment at his commenters' discussion of anti-natalism: I have to confess that blogging is weird.  It has its pleasures, but from time to time the conversation here takes a genuinely strange turn.  Anti-natalism?  Seriously?  With all the challenges that face us, with the … Continue reading “A Glimpse into the Mind of a Leftist Activist”<\/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":[306,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","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=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}