{"id":3164,"date":"2014-01-01T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2014-01-01T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T23:21:09","slug":"the-myth-of-western-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-myth-of-western-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth Of Western Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is ostensibly a review of Tony Judt&#8217;s astounding Postwar ends up something rather wonderful: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/12\/the-myth-of-western-civilization\/282704\/\">http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/12\/the-myth-of-western-civilization\/282704\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nations seem to require myth&#8230; the European super-nation has long needed to believe itself above the world, above native America, above Asia, and particularly above Africa. The truth is more disconcerting: The dark continent has never been South of the Sahara, but South of Minsk and East of Aachen in the jungles of the European soul. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any gospel of my own. Postwar, and the early pages of Bloodlands, have revealed a truth to me: &#8230; I don&#8217;t believe the arc of the universe bends towards justice. I don&#8217;t even believe in an arc. I believe in chaos. I believe powerful people who think they can make Utopia out of chaos should be watched closely. I don&#8217;t know that it all ends badly. But I think it probably does.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is ostensibly a review of Tony Judt&#8217;s astounding Postwar ends up something rather wonderful: http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/12\/the-myth-of-western-civilization\/282704\/ &#8220;Nations seem to require myth&#8230; the European super-nation has long needed to believe itself above the world, above native America, above Asia, and particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-myth-of-western-civilization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zzzzzzz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}