{"id":2408,"date":"2009-10-10T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2009-10-10T19:54:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:54:27","slug":"why-certain-whi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/why-certain-whi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why (certain) white people like certain stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/stuff_white_people_like2\/\">Prissy moralism as a weird kind of sumptuary law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;[L]ife is soft enough that our over-educated upper-middle classes are able to do away with moral codes that serve a purpose, and adopt more byzantine ones which demonstrate their freedom from concern. I see this as a form of conspicuous consumption, a status marker for viewing themselves above the lower orders&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe idea that \u201cbrains\u201d will make a better world is deeply ingrained. The problem, of course, with higher education is that it is a world removed from consequence. You can believe any fool thing you like if you\u2019re an academic. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prissy moralism as a weird kind of sumptuary law: &#8230;[L]ife is soft enough that our over-educated upper-middle classes are able to do away with moral codes that serve a purpose, and adopt more byzantine ones which demonstrate their freedom from concern. I see this as a form of conspicuous consumption, a status marker for viewing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/why-certain-whi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why (certain) white people like certain stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}