{"id":26656,"date":"2014-07-03T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26656"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:04:23","slug":"qotd-the-death-of-nuance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/qotd-the-death-of-nuance\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The death of nuance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; American <strike>liberalism<\/strike> culture is now synonymous with a juvenile Manicheanism that imagines some perfect world we could achieve if people just weren\u2019t so selfish and evil; that getting showily, publicly angry about problems is more popular than actually attempting to solve them; that there is no issue of such emotional and moral complexity that many people can\u2019t reduce it to a black-and-white caricature; and that we have created a media which has made its financial best interest inextricable from destroying depth, nuance, and complexity. I genuinely don\u2019t know if people believe in difficult choices and intractable problems anymore; they\u2019ve been bludgeoned by the loud noises and shouting we mistake for discussion into thinking that all problems have clear villains and easy answers. I do know that this is no way to run a democracy. And I also know that, years from now, when people like Vogell are no longer wasting a second of their time thinking about physical restraint of children who are a danger to themselves and others, the women in my program will be working, quietly and selflessly and for awful compensation, trying to help the children they are now accused of abusing.<\/p>\n<p>Fredrik deBoer, <a href=\"http:\/\/fredrikdeboer.com\/2014\/07\/01\/difficult-problems-after-the-death-of-nuance\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;difficult problems after the death of nuance&#8221;, <em>Fredrik deBoer<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; American liberalism culture is now synonymous with a juvenile Manicheanism that imagines some perfect world we could achieve if people just weren\u2019t so selfish and evil; that getting showily, publicly angry about problems is more popular than actually attempting to solve them; that there is no issue of such emotional and moral complexity that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41,13],"tags":[374,86,262,906],"class_list":["post-26656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-children","tag-criticism","tag-culture","tag-mentalhealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6VW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26658,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656\/revisions\/26658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}