{"id":2411,"date":"2004-11-08T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T23:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/08\/2411.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:47:25","slug":"ism-ism-ism-isnt-it-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/08\/ism-ism-ism-isnt-it-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Ism, ism, ism, isn&#8217;t it the most!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By the way, I have in fact been musing over some issues that came to the fore in the election, about reds and blues and purples, about city folk and country folk, about pluralism and fundamentalism, monism and dualism essentialism and relativism, and so on. The ideas are still rumbling around, and I&#8217;m hoping, on the whole, to write an actual essay rather than a little blognote, so it may well be a couple of weeks before anything appears (and, of course, I may not bother by that point). It looks, rather, as if I may need to read that Isaiah Berlin book on my shelf.\n<p>If anybody is willing to help out, I&#8217;d be grateful. Mostly, I&#8217;m looking at how and whether pluralism <I>as an idea<\/I> can be put into the political discourse, to engage the monism (or dualism or fundamentalism) of the Religious Right. Not that I&#8217;m suggesting a Pluralist Party, but that I do think that understanding the universe people perceive, both the physical and metaphysical universe, is important to conversation. Of course, I <I>would<\/I> think that; I&#8217;m a pluralist.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, I have in fact been musing over some issues that came to the fore in the election, about reds and blues and purples, about city folk and country folk, about pluralism and fundamentalism, monism and dualism essentialism&#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-2411","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\/2411","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=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17189,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/17189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}