{"id":376846,"date":"2018-09-11T05:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unravelling-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T05:14:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:14:42","slug":"unravelling-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unravelling-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Unravelling | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This country is going so far to the right you won\u2019t recognize it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Mitchell (1969) Spoken to <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter and mentioned in his obit (1988)<\/p>\n<p>Manliness and mastery required regeneration through violence, and by the 1890s, { Theodore} Roosevelt was spoiling for a fight: \u201cI should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one,\u201d he wrote. Any opponent would do, but \u201cthe most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages\u201d.<br \/>\u2014 Jackson Lears, <em>How the US Began Its Empire<\/em>, NYRB 2018<\/p>\n<p>There is this myth of happiness: black-magic slogans warn you to be happy at once; films that \u201cend well\u201d show a life of rosy ease to the exhausted crowds; the language is charged with optimistic and unrestrained expressions-\u201chave a good time,\u201d \u201clife is fun,\u201d and the like. But there are also these people, who, though conventionally happy, suffer from an obscure malaise to which no name can be given, who are tragic through fear of being so, through that total absence of the tragic in them and around them.<br \/>\u2014 Jean Paul Sartre, <em>Americans and Their Myths<\/em>, 1947<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The long overdue death of John McCain will be remembered not because of McCain himself or anything he did, but because of its timing. McCain\u2019s death happened under a particularly rabid spike in anti Trump madness. And so, like all useful deaths, especially of public figures, and more especially of *warriors*, the moment was seized upon by the information apparatus of the state and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/unravelling\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This country is going so far to the right you won\u2019t recognize it\u2026 \u2014 John Mitchell (1969) Spoken to New York Times reporter and mentioned in his obit (1988) Manliness and mastery required regeneration through violence, and by the 1890s, { Theodore} Roosevelt was spoiling for a fight: \u201cI should welcome almost any war, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}