{"id":77023,"date":"2022-02-06T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77023"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T23:26:39","slug":"77023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77023","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Quip O’ The Day
\n“I\u2019ll believe Brooks\u2019 \u201cend of individualism\u201d schtick when he gives up his NYT byline and replaces his name with \u201cStaff Writer.\u201d —<\/em>Professor Reynolds<\/p>\n

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Comment O’ The Day
\n“We are a nation of individuals with unique dreams and liberties. Stop it.”–<\/em>Brian Gutherman<\/p>\n

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DAVID BROOKS IS\u00a0PARTYING LIKE IT\u2019S 1919!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Flashback to a century ago, when attacks on individuality\u00a0were all the rage among collectivist-obsessed \u201cProgressives:\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

[Woodrow] Wilson was merely one voice in the progressive chorus of the age. \u201c[W]e must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement, and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of the many,\u201d declared the progressive social activist Jane Addams.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew forms of association must be created,\u201d explained Walter Rauschenbusch, a leading progressive theologian of the Social Gospel movement, in 1896. \u201cOur disorganized competitive life must pass into an organic cooperative life.\u201d Elsewhere, Rauschenbusch put it more simply: \u201cIndividualism means tyranny.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or as Mies van der Rohe, the last director of Weimar Germany\u2019s socialist-oriented Bauhaus design school\u00a0said in 1924<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us. The decisive achievements in all fields are impersonal and their authors are for the most part unknown. They are part of the trend of our time toward anonymity. Our engineering structures are examples. Gigantic dams, great industrial installations and huge bridges are built as a matter of course, with no designer\u2019s name attached to them. They point to the technology of the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curiously, Mies would have no problem building for wealthy individuals who wished to commission his work \u2014 not to mention having his name firmly associated with his designs \u2014 after he fled the Weimar Republic\u2019s much more punitive successors for America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exit\u00a0question<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some of its shakier proponents fell in love with\u00a0fine trouser creases over substance. As did others\u00a0who knew better, but hated missing out on all the best cocktail parties on both ends of the Northeast Corridor. Not to mention,\u00a0the green room at MSNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quip O’ The Day “I\u2019ll believe Brooks\u2019 \u201cend of individualism\u201d schtick when he gives up his NYT byline and replaces his name with \u201cStaff Writer.\u201d —Professor Reynolds Comment O’ The Day “We are a nation of individuals with unique dreams and liberties. Stop it.”–Brian Gutherman DAVID BROOKS IS\u00a0PARTYING LIKE IT\u2019S 1919! Flashback to a century … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,74,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant","category-snark-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77026,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77023\/revisions\/77026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}