{"id":1461,"date":"2014-11-15T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2014\/11\/when-jonah-goldberg-is-right.html"},"modified":"2014-11-15T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:04:00","slug":"when-jonah-goldberg-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2014\/11\/when-jonah-goldberg-is-right.html","title":{"rendered":"When Jonah Goldberg is right"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.nationalreview.com\/article\/392395\/empty-integrity-jonah-goldberg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">He\u2019s right.<\/a> \u00a0Except I would say we don\u2019t really have to wait and see what will happen. \u00a0It\u2019s been promoted for generations, and while only recently has it become officially endorsed, our \u2018I\u2019m my own God, thank you\u2019 approach to morality has been eating away at the foundations of Western Thought for more than a few years, \u00a0In fact, we\u2019re now at the stage where we have to adopt new ideas and excuses to rationalize this disaster and its disastrous results. \u00a0First up was, of course, the belief that Western Thought sucked anyway, so who cares? \u00a0I\u2019ll be interested in what excuses will come next.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s right. \u00a0Except I would say we don\u2019t really have to wait and see what will happen. \u00a0It\u2019s been promoted for generations, and while only recently has it become officially endorsed, our \u2018I\u2019m my own God, thank you\u2019 approach to morality has been eating away at the 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