{"id":139329,"date":"2021-05-14T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=139329"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:17:13","slug":"hegemonic-degeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=139329","title":{"rendered":"Hegemonic Degeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/thepost\/there-will-be-no-anti-woke-rebellion\/\">Ed West writes<\/a>: Progressivism already suffers from what Swedish academic Carl Ritter called \u201chegemonic degeneration\u201d, that when a belief becomes established, made flabby by institutional protection, then the genuinely interesting and intellectually curious will look for something else.<\/p>\n<p>The most intelligent people coming out of university now often seem to be, if not conservative, then at least critical of the new faith (not necessarily from the Right). But it also seems to me, at least, that many of the most intelligent critics appear to be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, which makes them far more interested in truth than social acceptability. Perhaps it is with the neuro-diverse that our future hopes rests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed West writes: Progressivism already suffers from what Swedish academic Carl Ritter called \u201chegemonic degeneration\u201d, that when a belief becomes established, made flabby by institutional protection, then the genuinely interesting and intellectually curious will look for something else. 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