{"id":20819,"date":"2016-05-29T17:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20819"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:49:15","slug":"against-cultural-senility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20819","title":{"rendered":"Against Cultural Senility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Against Cultural Senility<\/a><\/h3>\n

For the connoisseur of sociopolitical absurdity, the last few weeks\u2019 worth of news cycles very nearly defines the phrase \u201ctarget-rich environment.\u201d I note, for example, that arch-neoconservative Robert Kagan\u2014the founder of the Project for a New American Century and principal architect of this nation\u2019s idiotically bloodthirsty Middle East policies, a man who never met a body bag he didn\u2019t like\u2014has jumped party lines to endorse Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential ambitions.<\/p>\n

Under other conditions I\u2019d wonder if Kagan had decided to sandbag Clinton\u2019s hopes, using a lethal dose of deadpan satire to point out that her policy stances are indistinguishable from those of George W. Bush: you know, the guy that so many Democrats denounced as evil incarnate just eight short years ago. Unfortunately, nothing so clever seems to be in the works. Kagan seems to be quite sincere in his adulation for Clinton. What\u2019s more, his wife Victoria Nuland, a Hillary Clinton proteg\u00e9 in the State Department and a major player in the Obama administration\u2019s pursuit of Cold War brinksmanship against Russia, is now being rumored as\u00a0Clinton\u2019s most likely pick<\/a>\u00a0for Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

For unintended satire, that one\u2019s hard to beat Still, I\u2019d say it has been outdone by another recent story, which noted that the students at Brown University, one of this nation\u2019s Ivy League universities, are upset. Turns out they\u2019re so busy protesting for social justice these days that they don\u2019t have enough time to keep up with their classwork, and yet heir professors are still expecting papers to be turned in on time\u2014a demand that strikes the students as grossly unfair. A savage parody off some right-wing website? Nope; the story appeared in\u00a0the Brown University student paper<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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Against Cultural Senility For the connoisseur of sociopolitical absurdity, the last few weeks\u2019 worth of news cycles very nearly defines the phrase \u201ctarget-rich environment.\u201d I note, for example, that arch-neoconservative Robert Kagan\u2014the founder of the Project for a New American Century and principal architect of this nation\u2019s idiotically bloodthirsty Middle East policies, a man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3463,13944,1758,522,7415,694,827,2344],"class_list":["post-20819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-archdruid-report","tag-cultural-senility","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-middle-east","tag-robert-kagan","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20820,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions\/20820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}