{"id":21259,"date":"2016-06-25T11:34:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21259"},"modified":"2016-06-25T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:34:55","slug":"in-praise-of-the-reprehensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21259","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the Reprehensible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2016\/06\/in-praise-of-reprehensible.html\">In Praise of the Reprehensible<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Last month\u2019s post here on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/against-cultural-senility_25.html\">cultural senility and its antidotes<\/a>\u00a0discussed the way that modern education erases the past in order to defend today\u2019s ideologies against the lessons of history. While that post focused on the leftward end of the political spectrum\u2014the end that currently dominates what we still jokingly call \u201chigher education\u201d in today\u2019s America\u2014the erasure of the past is just as common on the other end of things. Between the political correctness of the left and the patriotic correctness of the right, it\u2019s hardly surprising that so many Americans stumble blindly toward the future in a fog of manufactured ignorance, sedulously shielded from the historical insights that could give them a clue about the troubled landscape about them or the looming disasters ahead.<\/p>\n<p>This week I\u2019d like to discuss another aspect of that erasure of the past. I\u2019ll be concentrating again on the way it\u2019s done on the leftward end of things, because that\u2019s the side that\u2019s doing the most to deform American education just at the moment, but I\u2019d encourage my readers to keep in mind that the issue I have in mind is a blade that has two edges and cuts both ways. That issue? The censoring of literature from the past in order to make it conform to the moral notions of the present.<\/p>\n<p>It so happens, for example, that quite a few works of American literature talk about people of color in terms that many people today find extremely offensive. Now of course just as many works of American literature discuss women, sexual minorities, and just about any other group of people you care to name, other than well-to-do, college-educated, white male heterosexual Anglo-Saxon Protestants, in highly insulting terms, but let\u2019s focus on racism for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Praise of the Reprehensible Last month\u2019s post here on\u00a0cultural senility and its antidotes\u00a0discussed the way that modern education erases the past in order to defend today\u2019s ideologies against the lessons of history. While that post focused on the leftward end of the political spectrum\u2014the end that currently dominates what we still jokingly call \u201chigher [&hellip;]<\/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":[6],"tags":[1949,3463,1247,2500,6295,1758,14108,10216],"class_list":["post-21259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-america","tag-archdruid-report","tag-education","tag-history","tag-ideology","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-literature","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21259","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=21259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21260,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21259\/revisions\/21260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}