{"id":2955,"date":"2002-10-19T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2002-10-19T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2002-10-19T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2002-10-19T13:26:28","slug":"the-war-on-bad-philosophy-gains-a-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"THE WAR ON BAD PHILOSOPHY GAINS A RECRUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/004799.php#004799\" target=\"browser\">Instapundit<\/a> joins the War on Bad Philosophy with his post about this <a href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/regular_columnists\/howard_jacobson\/story.jsp?story=343899\" target=\"browser\">article<\/a> on Independant.uk about self-hating Jews and the tendency of the West to blame itself.<br \/>\nFrom the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Ditto those who blew apart the however many hundreds of kids dancing the last of their lives away in Bali. It behoves us to stay out of their motives. Utterly obscene, the narrative of guilty causation which now waits on every fresh atrocity \u0096 &#8220;What else are the dissatisfied to do but kill?&#8221; etc \u0096 as though dissatisfaction were an automatic detonator, as though Cain were the creation of Abel&#8217;s will. Obscene in its haste. Obscene in its self-righteousness, mentally permitting others to pay the price of our self-loathing. Obscene in its ignorance \u0096 for we should know now how Selbsthass operates, encouraging those who hate us only to hate us more, since we concur in their conviction of our detestableness.<br \/>\nHere is our decadence: not the nightclubs, not the beaches and the sex and the drugs, but our incapacity to believe we have been wronged. Our lack of self-worth.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reynolds adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Why do they hate us? In part because so many Western intellectuals tell them they should.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instapundit joins the War on Bad Philosophy with his post about this article on Independant.uk about self-hating Jews and the tendency of the West to blame itself. From the article: Ditto those who blew apart the however many hundreds of kids dancing the last of their lives away in Bali. It behoves us to stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"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=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}