{"id":6483,"date":"2016-04-26T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/post-consensus-politics\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:20:29","slug":"post-consensus-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/post-consensus-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Consensus Politics: A Poetic Epigraph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> is the first stanza of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), a fitting epigraph to our entry into the twilight.  But for the philosopher there is consolation: "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk." (Hegel). 
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    Turning and turning in the widening gyre<\/span>
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/span>
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/span>
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/span>
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<\/span>
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/span>
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/span>
    Are full of passionate intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Western elites have lost all conviction and are sitting ducks for the passionate intensity of radical Muslims.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is the first stanza of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), a fitting epigraph to our entry into the twilight.  But for the philosopher there is consolation: "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk." (Hegel).      Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;    Things … Continue reading “Post-Consensus Politics: A Poetic Epigraph”<\/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":[180,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","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=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}