{"id":33130,"date":"2017-07-07T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33130"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:17:58","slug":"qotd-the-marxist-influence-on-modern-regency-romances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/qotd-the-marxist-influence-on-modern-regency-romances\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Marxist influence on modern &#8220;Regency&#8221; romances"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Which gets us to why these romances of people sashaying around in costumes while being 21st century moderns go against the wall: It is the perverse and self-aggrandizing view of history of the modern Marxist.<\/p>\n<p>Because their religion is all pervasive, it projects itself into the past. Forget that there was no contraception, there was no modern medicine and the deaths in childbirth were shockingly high and that it was for women eventually a number game: have children often enough and you will die of something going wrong with the pregnancy and the birth. Women are just like men in their view and as \u201centitled\u201d to consequence free sex. Everything else would be an injustice.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way everyone is \u201centitled\u201d to being supported while doing whatever they please, be it painting or rescuing unwed mothers. Anything else would be \u201cunfair.\u201d And since they all froze in kindergarten when \u201cunfair\u201d was the battle cry that would bring the teacher down, they think that complaint trumps EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n<p>So they know those people in the past were just pretending at being unenlightened, but really were doing wrong ON PURPOSE. Which is why they hate the past and keep trying to remake it into the current-day-Marxists shining idol image which is always of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah A. Hoyt, <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2015\/08\/03\/what-has-gone-before-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What Has Gone Before Us&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which gets us to why these romances of people sashaying around in costumes while being 21st century moderns go against the wall: It is the perverse and self-aggrandizing view of history of the modern Marxist. Because their religion is all pervasive, it projects itself into the past. Forget that there was no contraception, there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[32,7,41],"tags":[780,86,1138],"class_list":["post-33130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-quotations","tag-communism","tag-criticism","tag-thepastisaforeigncountry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130","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=33130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33131,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions\/33131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}