The Atlantic.....a Marxist rag. Why bother.
um...maybe because by reading we expand our knowledge and learn new things, or in come cases, by applying our analytical and integrative thinking skills, we reject the information in whole or in part?
Agree. I always avoid The Atlantic. Nothing credible, or shall I say anything they print has credibility problems.
I haven’t read the article.
The Atlantic relentlessly reinforces the idea that you, the putative reader, are so intellectually gifted that given only slight effort, you too can understand and absorb the advanced and highly nuanced brilliance hereby imparted.
It is intellectual masturbation for the sheer sake of intellectual masturbation. You’ll rarely if ever see a new original idea but above all, you’ll never ever see something simply and cogently stated. It’s like your neurons going to the gym for a workout on the treadmill. You get nowhere and if you’re able to get through the routine (of reading the article) you have bragging rights that you got through the routine and that’s the end of it.
I took care of my folks during their final years and my Mom subscribed to the mag, English teacher/librarian that she was during her working years. A dozen or so years ago, there were articles of occasional interest and they do have a very clever “made up words” contest every year, I believe, which has had some very clever entries. Over time, I saw the magazine get ever more and ever more cerebral even as it veered left, more left that it already was. At the end, I stopped even being interested in reading it, barely able to get through a paragraph of dense convoluted verbiage imparting essentially nothing of interest nor value. Maybe I just got dumber. But I found that after reading the first paragraph that I wasn’t interested in slogging farther to try to grasp some cliched thesis.
The author mostly blames the Republicans and especially the Tea Party for our problems.
Chaos syndrome is a chronic decline in the political system’s capacity for self-organization. It begins with the weakening of the institutions and brokers our moral foundations.
A lot of our problems can be traced to our government (and others) pretending things to be true that aren't true. We pretended that black people aren't people and we had slavery. The Germans pretended that Jewish people aren't people and the world had the holocaust. We pretend that preborn people aren't people and the problems with abortion are never ending. Now we pretend that homosexuality is normal and we're just beginning to see the problems that will be never ending. All of these major problems are caused by a lack or morality.
We lost our moral way and for one major political party up is down and down is up. The other major political party has been too weak to resist, thus the rise of Trump, who is resisting.
“The Atlantic.....a Marxist rag. Why bother.”
And the writer is a senior fellow at the Brookings institute, a liberal think tank.
In the bit I read he manages to trash Trump, Cruz and Sanders. but not even a mention of Hildabeast.
A waste of time.