{"id":943,"date":"2024-02-13T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/legutko-on-entertaiment\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:24:54","slug":"legutko-on-entertaiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/legutko-on-entertaiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Legutko on Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Legutko tends to exaggerate, as witness the final sentence in the following quotation, but the point he is making is true and important.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In today\u2019s world entertainment is not just a pastime or a style, but a substance that permeates everything: schools and universities, upbringing of children, intellectual life, art, morality, and religion. It has become dear to the hearts of students, professors, entrepreneurs, journalists, engineers, scientists, writers, even priests. Entertainment imposes itself psychologically, intellectually, socially, and also, strange as it might sound, spiritually. A failure to provide human endeavors\u2014even the most noble ones\u2014with an entertaining wrapping is today unthinkable and borders on sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">\u2015&#0160;<span class=\"authorOrTitle\">Ryszard Legutko,&#0160;<\/span><span id=\"quote_book_link_25898468\"><a class=\"authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/23683437\">The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Yes, even priests. The Catholic priest who during a supposed &#39;sermon&#39; goes on about the Stupor Bowl. And then there is Bergoglio the Clown:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Buffoon Pope 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traditioninaction.org\/RevolutionPhotos\/Images%20(501-600)\/547-Baffoon-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditioninaction.org\/RevolutionPhotos\/A547-Baffoon.htm\">Read<\/a> all about it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legutko tends to exaggerate, as witness the final sentence in the following quotation, but the point he is making is true and important. In today\u2019s world entertainment is not just a pastime or a style, but a substance that permeates everything: schools and universities, upbringing of children, intellectual life, art, morality, and religion. It has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/legutko-on-entertaiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Legutko on Entertainment&#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":[62,118,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-culture-matters","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}