{"id":84101,"date":"2022-12-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84101"},"modified":"2022-12-20T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:51:29","slug":"nprs-war-on-things-that-just-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84101","title":{"rendered":"NPR’s War On Things That Just Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I listen – as rarely as I can – to NPR’s “On the Media”. The show is basically an unthinking cheerleader for America’s “elite” media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And their latest theme is participating in the war on “Nostalgia” – particularly, against the notion of looking to the past for lessons that might help with the present and the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first segment<\/a> was keynoted by a fellow – some sort of historian – who declaimed in an adenoidal ,mid-Atlantic voice no different than a thousand others on NPR “What does nostalgia for the fifties get you? It gets you dead, sooner<\/em>! The life expectancy was 66 years! Now it’s 78!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s right – if you think society could gain by returning to some <\/em>of the social and moral stanards of the past, you also have <\/em>to roll back science! And bring the Klan back too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not really exaggerating that last bit – because nostalgia isn’t just wanting to derive some wisdom from another time. Nosirreebob, it’s bringing Hitler back to life!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’re not learning from the past. You’re begging to repeat it, all of it, especially the worst of it<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can not defund NPR fast enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I listen – as rarely as I can – to NPR’s “On the Media”. The show is basically an unthinking cheerleader for America’s “elite” media. And their latest theme is participating in the war on “Nostalgia” – particularly, against the notion of looking to the past for lessons that might help with the present and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,130,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-tc-media-bias","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84101","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=84101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84102,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84101\/revisions\/84102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}