{"id":607,"date":"2004-08-09T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/08\/09\/right-of-way-coming-through-whats-imp"},"modified":"2004-08-09T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T14:16:28","slug":"right-of-way-coming-through-whats-important-these-days-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/08\/09\/right-of-way-coming-through-whats-important-these-days-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Right of Way, Coming Through: What&#8217;s important these days, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1430'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, hold on to your hats if Adam Sparks&#8217;s editorial, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2004\/08\/09\/asparks.DTL\">Why Kerry Will Lose The Election<\/a> in the San Francisco Gate is on the money.  What I really distrust in Sparks&#8217;s analysis is his manipulation of how we should perceive perception: Sparks regards the potentially popular perception that Kerry would be (marginally, infinitesimally) better than Bush as deluded, even as he disregards the more global (figuratively and literally) perception that a Bush re-election will be a major signpost on the road to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autodidactproject.org\/quote\/cynicslo.html\">enlightened false consciousness<\/a> as insignificant.  I guess that&#8217;s modern cynicism, with sharp elbows: delusion isn&#8217;t useful unless you can push it into the other guy&#8217;s boots, in which case it becomes pure rhetorical gold; but insignificance is always majorly ok as it preserves the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hold on to your hats if Adam Sparks&#8217;s editorial, Why Kerry Will Lose The Election in the San Francisco Gate is on the money. What I really distrust in Sparks&#8217;s analysis is his manipulation of how we should perceive perception: Sparks regards the potentially popular perception that Kerry would be (marginally, infinitesimally) better than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}