{"id":476,"date":"2005-02-16T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=476"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:57:33","slug":"good-news-for-people-who-like-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-news-for-people-who-like-bad-news","title":{"rendered":"Good news for people who like bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t like Kurt Andersen’s novel<\/a>, but he wrote a pretty good piece<\/a> in this week’s New York<\/span> magazine, about the conflict between liberal ideology and honesty in New York City:<\/p>\n

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it’s good for our ideological investment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t like Kurt Andersen’s novel, but he wrote a pretty good piece in this week’s New York magazine, about the conflict between liberal ideology and honesty in New York City: If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Good news for people who like bad news”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-7G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13117,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-jennifer-hayden","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":0},"title":"COVID Check-In with Jennifer Hayden","author":"Gil","date":"April 10, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Jennifer Hayden Cartoonist Jennifer Hayden checks in from central NJ. We talk about the need to micro-vent during self-isolation with her family, the graphic memoir she finds herself immersed in (and which keeps growing in scale), her changing understanding of aspects of the Goddess, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidjenhaydencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C503&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidjenhaydencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C503&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidjenhaydencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C503&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidjenhaydencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C503&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidjenhaydencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C503&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16244,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-550-ron-rosenbaum","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":1},"title":"Episode 550 – Ron Rosenbaum","author":"Gil","date":"August 15, 2023","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 550: Ron Rosenbaum \"We're in an age where machines \u2014 AI, big data \u2014 are taking over human emotions and endeavors.\" With the release of IN DEFENSE OF LOVE: An Argument (Doubleday), Ron Rosenbaum offers up a series of essays to save love from scientizers, extremists, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1185,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/throw-the-jew-etc-etc","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":2},"title":"Throw the Jew, etc., etc.","author":"Gil","date":"November 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ron Rosenbaum prefers the HBO-Borat to the movie version: [T]o me the original Borat segments were more than stupid-funny; they were extremely smart-funny, occasionally even off-handedly profound, as the fake Kazakh newsman \"personality\" managed to tease out moments of appalling honesty from ordinary Americans with a light touch and brilliant\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Religion"","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":363,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-too","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":3},"title":"You, Too","author":"Gil","date":"September 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent the first anniversary of Sept. 11 walking around NYC with my girlfriend at the time, taking pictures, listening to the wind, and helping her get an \"I Love NYC\" tattoo on the back of her neck. Here's a link to the editorials I wrote for my magazine on\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1864,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-smush-new-york","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":4},"title":"I Smush New York","author":"Gil","date":"January 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"At the Licensing Expo in 1997, I met with some Sony executives about properties they were licensing for merchandise. (I also met Gary Panter at that event, but that's another story). I asked why they were so excited about their new Godzilla flick. Grinning from ear to ear, one of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Urban issues"","block_context":{"text":"Urban issues","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/urban-issues"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6509,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-new-york-and-old-south","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":5},"title":"Podcast: New York and Old South","author":"Gil","date":"August 9, 2012","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories \u2013 season 2 episode 9 Jane Borden - New York and Old South It's time for a new episode of The Virtual Memories Show! This one marks yet another milestone! (There'll be plenty of those, since we're still early days with this show.) I managed to interview someone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Podcasts"","block_context":{"text":"Podcasts","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/bordenme.jpg?fit=1200%2C1056&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/bordenme.jpg?fit=1200%2C1056&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/bordenme.jpg?fit=1200%2C1056&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/bordenme.jpg?fit=1200%2C1056&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/bordenme.jpg?fit=1200%2C1056&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}