{"id":6445,"date":"2016-05-10T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/10\/a-time-to-be-careful\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:50:43","slug":"a-time-to-be-careful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/10\/a-time-to-be-careful\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to be Careful"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is admirable to speak the truth courageously in your own name, but the exercise of civil courage might cost you and yours dearly. So I feel duty-bound to warn my younger readers.  This is a time to be very careful.  The following from Journal of American Greatness<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who Are We?<\/span><\/h3>\n
Who are you?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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You mean in the Samuel Huntington sense?  We are American patriots aghast at the stupidity and corruption of American politics, particularly in the Republican Party, and above all in what passes for the \u201cconservative\u201d intellectual movement.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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No, literally\u2014who are you guys?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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None of your damned business.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Why won\u2019t you tell us?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Because the times are so corrupt that simply stating certain truths is enough to make one unemployable for life.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That\u2019s a bit dramatic, isn\u2019t it?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ask Brendan Eich.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is admirable to speak the truth courageously in your own name, but the exercise of civil courage might cost you and yours dearly. So I feel duty-bound to warn my younger readers.  This is a time to be very careful.  The following from Journal of American Greatness: Who Are We? Who are you? You … Continue reading “A Time to be Careful”<\/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":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","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=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}