{"id":6475,"date":"2016-11-29T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:13:53","slug":"linked-is-liberal-democracy-in-trouble-warning-signs-are-flashing-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/linked-is-liberal-democracy-in-trouble-warning-signs-are-flashing-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Is liberal democracy in trouble? \u201cWarning signs are flashing red.\u201d”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Kottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Something I think about often is cultural memory and how it shifts, seen most notably on kottke.org in my mild obsession with The Great Span. Back in July, writer John Scalzi tweeted:<\/p>\n

“Sometimes feels like a strong correlation between WWII passing from living memory, and autocracy seemingly getting more popular.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Scalzi is on to something here, I think. Those who fought in or lived through World War II are either dead or dying. Their children, the Baby Boomers, had a very different experience in hunky dory Leave It to Beaver postwar America. Anyone under 50 probably doesn\u2019t remember anything significant about the Vietnam War and anyone under 35 didn\u2019t really experience the Cold War. Couple that with an increasingly poor educational experience in many areas of the country and it seems as though Americans have forgotten how bad it was (Stalin, Hitler, the Holocaust, Vietnam, the Cold War) and take for granted the rights and protections that liberal democracy, despite its faults, offers its citizens. Shame on us if we throw all of that hard-fought progress away in exchange for \u2014 how did Franklin put it? \u2014 \u201ca little temporary safety\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

History repeats itself. Scholars who studied the world before WWII should be waving their hands in the air on how important it is that we don\u2019t regress but all signs point to a very autocratic future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Kottke: Something I think about often is cultural memory and how it shifts, seen most notably on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-11-29T16:13:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"57381753-97d0-46f7-8d38-21ebb772e4d8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-11-29T16:13:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AVzgXU5fQRveNOCHrt3Lk2A","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Gr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7179,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/09\/linked-the-war-to-sell-you-a-mattress-is-an-internet-nightmare\/","url_meta":{"origin":6475,"position":0},"title":"Linked: “The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Wired: By early September, the updated Casper review amounted to an endorsement. \u201cOverall my experience with Casper was very positive,\u201d the new review concluded. 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