{"id":1185,"date":"2006-08-16T14:57:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","slug":"shrinkwrapped_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Shrinkwrapped on the &#8216;Hybrid Vigor&#8217; of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shrinkwrapped blog has <a href=\"http:\/\/shrinkwrapped.blogs.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/hybrid_vigor.html\" target=\"browser\">a pretty insightful riff<\/a> on my rambling post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/008771.php\" target=\"browser\">Some Thoughts On Violence, Suicide, And Bad Philosophy<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Such people have no dependable core of their own and their chronic frustration and rage at a world which refuses to satiate their desperate inner hunger cannot be contained but must be externalized. <\/p>\n<p>\nWhen the rage is externalized, all it needs is a coherent idea to give it meaning and shape.  Islam, par excellence, is an ideology of Meaning.  After all, by submitting to one&#8217;s God, there are no further questions; all questions have been answered. <\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps at one time vulnerable children could have found Meaning in their religion, but our Western elites have managed to destroy religion as a source of inner strength for too many.  Without meaning, they have nothing, which is the core of nihilism.  Modern Multiculturalism and the deconstruction of Western reality has left too many of our elites with no fixed beliefs; nothing they believe has any meaning beyond their belief that nothing has any meaning.  There is one exception for the Left:<\/p>\n<p>\nAll cultures are equal except for Western Civilization , which is evil and the source of all that is wrong with the world.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s the case&#8230;well, no action is unjustifiable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shrinkwrapped talks about the psychology of suicide bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}