{"id":903,"date":"2024-03-03T02:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/american-paralysis-and-decline\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T02:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T02:07:53","slug":"american-paralysis-and-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/american-paralysis-and-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"American Paralysis and Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Yet another by Victor Davis Hanson. There is nothing to disagree with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/03\/01\/american_paralysis_and_decline_150584.html\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But Victor, <em>what is to be done? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Surely you have some suggestions! You have demonstrated great civil courage by speaking your mind openly. What prevents you from taking the next step? Is it because you think it would be &#39;unprofessional&#39; to do so? I have been following and promoting you for years. You are now at the top of your game. You have made it in America. I salute you with deep respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Do you see yourself as a scholar and a theoretician merely?&#0160; How much research and writing do you think you will accomplish in a concentration camp or in a war zone?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another by Victor Davis Hanson. There is nothing to disagree with here. But Victor, what is to be done? Surely you have some suggestions! You have demonstrated great civil courage by speaking your mind openly. What prevents you from taking the next step? Is it because you think it would be &#39;unprofessional&#39; to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/american-paralysis-and-decline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Paralysis and Decline&#8221;<\/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":[306,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}