{"id":2575,"date":"2002-06-28T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2002-06-28T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2002-06-28T08:13:36","slug":"absolutism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":"ABSOLUTISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodkapundit.com\/\" target=\"browser\">vodka<\/a>&#8230;I&#8217;m told by people who drink that stuff that Grey Goose is better&#8230;it&#8217;s about the kind of personal philosophical rigidity that I&#8217;ll argue can lead to all kinds of bad things&#8230;from terrorism to gridlock.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/demosthenes.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"browser\">Demosthenes<\/a> has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/demosthenes.blogspot.com\/2002_06_23_demosthenes_archive.html#78302458\">post<\/a> today on it, using a graphic-novel series called the &#8216;Watchmen&#8217; (I&#8217;ve got limited knowledge of these, although after reading &#8216;From Hell&#8217; on the recommendation of a friend, I&#8217;ll be looking at more).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll suggest that this is a part of the same Romantic rejection of the &#8216;bourgeois&#8217; values of moderation, compromise, and community that I discuss when I talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/armedliberal.blogspot.com\/2002_05_05_armedliberal_archive.html#76308447\" target=\"browser\">Isiah Berlin<\/a> book &#8216;The Roots of Romanticism&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not about the vodka&#8230;I&#8217;m told by people who drink that stuff that Grey Goose is better&#8230;it&#8217;s about the kind of personal philosophical rigidity that I&#8217;ll argue can lead to all kinds of bad things&#8230;from terrorism to gridlock. Demosthenes has a great post today on it, using a graphic-novel series called the &#8216;Watchmen&#8217; (I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}