{"id":61100,"date":"2021-12-24T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61100"},"modified":"2021-12-24T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:00:52","slug":"everything-going-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61100","title":{"rendered":"Everything Going Great"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everything Going Great<\/a><\/h3>\n

Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gospel<\/strong>, a word from Old English, is a compound that means \u201cgood news.\u201d And it\u2019s gospel that\u2019s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines is just a sign that the press is doing its job. I don\u2019t think any of us wants to wake up in the morning and read \u201cEverything Going Great!\u201d over our egg-nog-spiked chai \u2014 though even if we do, we know a headline like that is just an indication of all that’s unreported.<\/p>\n

Coming into this Christmas season, I find myself beset by odd religious yearnings\u2014I say odd, because I\u2019m not much of a believer, not in God, not in governments, not in institutions generally. I try to save my faith for people and principles, but that can lead to some lean years in the slaking of spiritual thirst. I can find a way to attribute my stirrings to the ritualism of Covid \u2014 the ablutions of sanitizing and masking, the penitent isolation, the\u00a0what-does-it-all-mean?<\/em>\u00a0that comes from confronting powerlessness and the caprice of illness \u2014 but a more convincing source might be the novelty of parenthood: religion being a stand-in for tradition in general, I ask myself, what am I going to leave my child? What intellectual and emotional inheritance?<\/p>\n

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Along with \u201cgood news,\u201d I\u2019ve been thinking of \u201cbad faith<\/a>,\u201d a phrase that always reminds me of the Thomas Pynchon joke, wherein everything bad becomes a German spa: Bad Kissingen, Bad Kreuznach, Baden-Baden\u2026\u00a0Bad Karma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Everything Going Great Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means \u201cgood news.\u201d And it\u2019s gospel that\u2019s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines […]<\/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":[32346,249,2001,827,3142],"class_list":["post-61100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-continuing-ed","tag-edward-snowden","tag-julian-assange","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100","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=61100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61101,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100\/revisions\/61101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}