{"id":49,"date":"2022-03-12T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/?p=49"},"modified":"2024-03-16T20:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:53:53","slug":"fourth-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/fourth-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a half-formed thought.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tyler Cowen writes that the US is &#8220;good at destroying things&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2022\/03\/the-u-s-is-really-good-at-destroying-things.html\">link<\/a>) and about how the current cultural forces in our society have been quickly repurposed, in the circumstances of this new Russo-Ukrainian war, to destroying Russia. But I&#8217;m not sure I agree with what he has made his thesis statement: I really don&#8217;t think the US is in any way <strong>uniquely<\/strong> good at destroying things. Yes, the US is good at destroying things, but only in the sense that <strong>all<\/strong> human polities, in all eras, are good at destroying things. I suppose I will concede that because the US has, historically, been a quite competent polity that is good at other things, that means it is more effective at destroying things, too. Perhaps this is what Cowen means.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a half-formed thought. Tyler Cowen writes that the US is &#8220;good at destroying things&#8221; (link) and about how the current cultural forces in our society have been quickly repurposed, in the circumstances of this new Russo-Ukrainian war, to destroying Russia. But I&#8217;m not sure I agree with what he has made his thesis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/fourth-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fourth Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godsright.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}