{"id":13526,"date":"2014-08-19T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2015-01-10T19:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T00:52:23","slug":"at-the-register-the-culture-of-blechh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2014\/08\/19\/at-the-register-the-culture-of-blechh\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Register: The Culture of Blechh"},"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><span style=\"color: #5f6c74;\">What kind of person responds to someone\u2019s joy with an agenda? I don\u2019t even care if you\u2019re right or wrong: that\u2019s dehumanizing (and last I heard, most people on both ends of the political spectrum are generally opposed to dehumanization).\u00a0You\u2019ve heard of\u00a0the\u00a0Culture of Death,\u00a0which\u00a0teaches people to sneer in disgust at the good, the true, and the beautiful. What we have here is its sad sack cousin, the Culture of Blechh, which teaches people to turn every occasion, whether happy or sad, into a basin to catch\u00a0the\u00a0Very Important Message they\u00a0perpetually disgorge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/simcha-fisher\/the-culture-of-blechh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the rest at the Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of person responds to someone\u2019s joy with an agenda? I don\u2019t even care if you\u2019re right or wrong: that\u2019s dehumanizing (and last I heard, most people on both ends of the political spectrum are generally opposed to dehumanization).\u00a0You\u2019ve heard of\u00a0the\u00a0Culture of Death,\u00a0which\u00a0teaches people to sneer in disgust at the good, the true, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-13526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-national-catholic-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>At the Register: The Culture of Blechh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What kind of person responds to someone&#039;s joy with an agenda? 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