{"id":139,"date":"2007-11-25T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-11-28T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T02:02:49","slug":"139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"The Disengagement with Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All of these legacies have left the young feeling depressed, cynical and[digg-reddit-me] powerless. And yet our democracy needs them more than ever now. Young people are always in the vanguard of any movement to sustain or advance liberty. Students led the charge for freedom in Prague and Mexico City in 1968, in Chile in 1973, in Beijing and throughout Eastern Europe in 1989.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naomi Wolf in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/23\/AR2007112301302_3.html\">the disengagement with power<\/a> of the Post 9\/11 generation.  I&#8217;ve posted about this before: <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=113\">excerpts from an interview with a former radical Weatherman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=116\">a meditation on the post 9\/11 generation<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=122\">similar, but much more extreme version of this disengagement and its effects in the islamist movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=122\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Islamist Terrorism as \u201ca generational phenomenon\u201d\">Islamist Terrorism as \u201ca generational phenomenon\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=120\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cThe fierce urgency of now\u201d and Barack Obama\">\u201cThe fierce urgency of now\u201d and Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=116\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to The Post 9\/11 Generation\">The Post 9\/11 Generation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=113\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cYou don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.\u201d\">\u201cYou don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=100\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama\">Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these legacies have left the young feeling depressed, cynical and[digg-reddit-me] powerless. And yet our democracy needs them more than ever now. Young people are always in the vanguard of any movement to sustain or advance liberty. Students led the charge for freedom in Prague and Mexico City in 1968, in Chile in 1973, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,22,6,4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","category-post-911-generation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8qcx-139","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}