{"id":392757,"date":"2019-01-14T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/resist-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-01-14T06:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:28:51","slug":"resist-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/resist-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Resist – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Funny thing is, I was in school with a man named Ted Widmer, and I recently read that one Ted Widmer is a \u201cdistinguished lecturer\u201d at a New York university and is senior fellow at the \u201cCouncil for Ethics\u201d in international affairs. The Ted I knew was anything but ethical, and dressed rather strangely, if you know what I mean. Never mind\u2014whether he was a schoolmate or not, Widmer has written a treatise about 1919 and called it \u201cThe Year of the Crack-Up.\u201d It\u2019s very good. Basically he says that what took place in 1919 shaped the world for the rest of the century.<\/p>\n

One hundred years later, his crack-up looks like a tiny fissure to me, a chink, yet in a funny way it did shape the rest of the century. The war was over and the German, Austrian, and Ottoman empires were gone. The chirpy and confident Americans, headed by a vainglorious blowhard named Woodrow Wilson, had decided to impose on the inbred Euros a thing called \u201cself-determination.\u201d The Yanks, after all, had arrived last-minute \u00e0 la John Wayne with his 7th Cav and saved the Allies from the hated Bosch. Self-determination became le gout du jour, and that is all le tout Paris talked about. In fact, Paris dropped Proust and talked only about Fourteen Points, just as London forgot all about Eugenie, Kate, and Meghan, and babbles on about Brexit.
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A few centuries before that, a silk stocking called Louie defined the state as follows: \u201cL\u2019\u00e9tat, c\u2019est moi.\u201d Some four hundred years after Louie baby, an ass by the name of Jean-Claude sort of thinks l\u2019\u00e9tat is his. He conducts referendums in which only a few bother to vote, but when the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Funny thing is, I was in school with a man named Ted Widmer, and I recently read that one Ted Widmer is a \u201cdistinguished lecturer\u201d at a New York university and is senior fellow at the \u201cCouncil for Ethics\u201d in international affairs. The Ted I knew was anything but ethical, and dressed rather strangely, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392757","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\/392757","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}