{"id":1166,"date":"2008-12-30T16:08:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:10:16","slug":"harvesting-zeitgeist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Zeitgeist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from the question<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>name a piece of culture (book, movie, album, TV show, etc.) that &#8220;exemplifies what it was like to be alive in the age of George W. Bush&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/musicology.typepad.com\/dialm\/2008\/12\/against-parallelism.html\">Phil Ford<\/a> notes that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Historical epochs do have deep structures of sensibility&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So we can all see how the torture apologetics of <i>24<\/i> play into the Bush II zeitgeist. I&#8217;m not going to argue against that &#8212; any future study of American culture in the Bush II era will doubtless (and correctly) point to <i>24<\/i> as Exhibit A of <b>an America scared shitless and consoling itself with the spectacle of tough guys torturing bad guys<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I resolve to keep an eye peeled for others. Not irrelevant: my own posting from January of <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/mt\/archives\/000821.html\">James McMurtry&#8217;s &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Make It Here&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from the question name a piece of culture (book, movie, album, TV show, etc.) that &#8220;exemplifies what it was like to be alive in the age of George W. Bush&#8221; Phil Ford notes that Historical epochs do have deep structures of sensibility&#8230; So we can all see how the torture apologetics of 24 play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-zeitgeist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}