{"id":79796,"date":"2021-10-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79796"},"modified":"2021-10-19T21:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T02:37:23","slug":"malaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79796","title":{"rendered":"Malaise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jimmy Carter&#8217;s &#8220;Malaise&#8221; speech in 1978 &#8211; in which he seemed to be reaching through the radio and telling the adolescent me &#8220;I got my piece of the pie; you&#8217;re gonna get less.  Deal with it&#8221; was one of many impulses that led to me eventually becoming a conservative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to hope this bit here does the same to some kid today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1450410755698958337\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ll be fair &#8211; I didn&#8217;t read the op-ed.  What, me pay for a paywall?  Are you nuts? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, informed only by the headline, my first reflex was &#8220;well, duh &#8211; that&#8217;s Stoicism 101.  Don&#8217;t get cranky about things you can&#8217;t control&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I suspect this is going to become part of the dominant class&#8217;s messaging; gaslighting people that wanting life to be like it was a year ago is&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;privilege?   Racism?  Not forward-thinking? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79484\">society of dopamine addicts<\/a> into virtue-signaling aescetics; what could go wrong? <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Carter&#8217;s &#8220;Malaise&#8221; speech in 1978 &#8211; in which he seemed to be reaching through the radio and telling the adolescent me &#8220;I got my piece of the pie; you&#8217;re gonna get less. Deal with it&#8221; was one of many impulses that led to me eventually becoming a conservative. I have to hope this bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79797,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79796\/revisions\/79797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}