{"id":2894,"date":"2013-08-09T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2013-08-09T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:02:32","slug":"the-manichean-meta-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/09\/the-manichean-meta-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manichean Meta-Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

     As has been mentioned before<\/a>, “It doesn\u2019t matter how logical or sane an idea is.\u00a0 If people don\u2019t understand the narrative it embodies, the whole human experience as it were, then people won\u2019t connect.”\u00a0 If one wins the narrative, that is, define the context in which political debate will be judged, then one has already<\/em> won the entire argument.<\/p>\n

     This is why it is so important for the culture, from memes<\/a> to mores, to be reflective of that civic heritage<\/a> that given us both virtue and<\/em> liberty.\u00a0 The Progressive left, however, have been fighting this, and with some success, not by staking a logical and realistic case for their position (for they have none), but by demonizing<\/a> their opponents as evil incarnate and then offering a manichean choice: The evil H8ers and oppressors, or the ones who are opposed to all those naughty things.<\/p>\n

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     No matter how much the horrors of Progressive governance<\/a> has been, people will not care because in their minds the greater boogie-man has already been identified.\u00a0 It can, and will be, difficult to dismiss these new cultural prejudices and assumptions without compromising either our values or our liberty.\u00a0 It is easy for the Progressives to get people to hate, for hate is always an easy answer.\u00a0 Convincing people otherwise is difficult, but it must be done if we are to preserve our liberty and our virtue.<\/p>\n

     For freedom.<\/p>\n

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     As has been mentioned before, “It doesn\u2019t matter how logical or sane an idea is.\u00a0 If people don\u2019t understand the narrative it embodies, the whole human experience as it were, then people won\u2019t connect.”\u00a0 If one wins the narrative, that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[46,20,4,48,57],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-kyriarchy","tag-occupy","tag-romney","tag-social-justice","tag-war-on-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}