{"id":45341,"date":"2021-02-01T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45341"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:42:04","slug":"qotd-useless-things-do-not-further-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/qotd-useless-things-do-not-further-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Useless things &#8230; do not further The Revolution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Fat acceptance,&#8221; slutwalks, and all the rest of it follow naturally from Bolshie beliefs. If you accept \u2014 as a good little Dialectical Materialist must \u2014 that there&#8217;s nothing to human happiness but bread, shoes, and shit, ugliness \u2014 physical, moral, mental \u2014 becomes a good in itself. How could it be otherwise? Only truly useless things can be beautiful, and useless things, by definition, do not further The Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad for the Bolshies that it&#8217;s in our nature to confuse the messenger with the message. I like to think of myself as an open-minded, tolerant man who takes things as they come, but holy jeeebus, I don&#8217;t care what Emma Goldman&#8217;s deal is \u2014 if she&#8217;s for it, I&#8217;m against it. I need bleach for my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>We need to use that. It&#8217;s no coincidence that Ashley Judd and now Taylor Swift are spouting off about Progtard politics \u2014 they used to be cute; now they&#8217;re not. See what Social Justice does to you, ladies? <\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-face-you-deserve\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Face You Deserve&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2018-10-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fat acceptance,&#8221; slutwalks, and all the rest of it follow naturally from Bolshie beliefs. If you accept \u2014 as a good little Dialectical Materialist must \u2014 that there&#8217;s nothing to human happiness but bread, shoes, and shit, ugliness \u2014 physical, moral, mental \u2014 becomes a good in itself. How could it be otherwise? Only truly [&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":[53,41],"tags":[780,1020,139,1462],"class_list":["post-45341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-communism","tag-progressives","tag-psychology","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bNj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341","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=45341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62934,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341\/revisions\/62934"}],"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=45341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}