{"id":10153,"date":"2006-03-01T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/01\/10153.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:46","slug":"irish-need-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/01\/irish-need-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish need apply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is Your Humble Blogger out of the loop, or is it not common knowledge that Tom &#8220;Boycott Domino&#8217;s&#8221; Monaghan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2089-2058771,00.html\">building a papist city in Florida<\/a>? Of course, Governor Jeb Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060217\/NEWS01\/60217002\/1075\">thinks it&#8217;s swell<\/a>.\n<p>Since when do Americans believe in partition? I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve said this somewhere in this Tohu Bohu before, but seriously, partition is anti-American if anything is. Yes, there are times and places where we must, grudgingly, accept partition for a short while; it&#8217;s possible that things would be worse in South Asia if we hadn&#8217;t. But saying that sometimes all the other solutions are even worse than partition is different from leaping to partition as the perfect world.\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m not against Mr. Monaghan starting a college, nor even starting a Catholic College. I find partition in education to be troubling, but then the papists have a (chequered) history of doing serious work within their educational institutions, engaging the world from a particularly Catholic perspective. And if Ave Marie U is going to do that, then more power to him. But it isn&#8217;t. Because if you are going to engage the world, the first thing you do is not build a town of altogether like-minded people. I&#8217;m not talking here about the constitutional and legal problems, which we had hashed out in company towns long ago, and only a roll-back to a nineteenth-century conception of oh crap I can&#8217;t even finish the snark. No, I&#8217;m just saying that retreat from the world is antithetical to the culture I thought I grew up in. That was true of the Hasidism we rejected, and it&#8217;s true of Mr. Monaghan&#8217;s pretty town.\n<p>When did we become a nation of Hasids? No, that&#8217;s not fair, we are not such a nation; the Hasids are a minority. But when did we, as a culture, lose that Whitman sense that we contradict ourselves because we contain multitudes, and that to stop contradicting ourselves, we would have to shrink? When did we, as a people, resign ourselves to shrinking?\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Your Humble Blogger out of the loop, or is it not common knowledge that Tom \u201cBoycott Domino\u2019s\u201d Monaghan is building a papist city in Florida? Of course, Governor Jeb Bush thinks it\u2019s swell. Since when do Americans believe in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17693,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/17693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}