{"id":152,"date":"2004-08-15T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=152"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"phil-agre-on-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/15\/phil-agre-on-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Agre on Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on <a href=http:\/\/polaris.gseis.ucla.edu\/pagre\/>Phil Agre&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/polaris.gseis.ucla.edu\/pagre\/rre.html>Red Rock Eater mailing list<\/a>.  Agre is a wonderful thinker about information systems and how they integrate into society.  He hasn&#8217;t posted as much to RRE as he used to, but he posted <a href=http:\/\/polaris.gseis.ucla.edu\/pagre\/conservatism.html>a new article<\/a> today, which discusses the conservative movement in detail, what it represents, and how we should fight it.  While I&#8217;m not sure I agree with all of his points (&#8220;Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.&#8221;, for instance), he does a good job of identifying the tactics of the conservative movement, especially in their use of language (similar to <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/22\/#moral_politics>George Lakoff<\/a>), and identifying ways in which we can fight them.  The article is long, but I found it interesting, so I figured I&#8217;d link to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on Phil Agre&#8217;s Red Rock Eater mailing list. Agre is a wonderful thinker about information systems and how they integrate into society. He hasn&#8217;t posted as much to RRE as he used to, but he posted a new article today, which discusses the conservative movement in detail, what it represents, and how we should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}