{"id":1776,"date":"2008-12-23T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2008-12-22T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T04:01:23","slug":"the-twin-radical-20th-century-american-revolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"The Twin Radical 20th Century American Revolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the points I tried to make in <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=1222\">this piece this October was the similarity of the radicalism of the 1980s to the radicalism of the 1960s<\/a> &#8211; and how both were responsible for overturning the economic and social stability of the 1950s and early 1960s. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2207067\/pagenum\/all\/\">Stephen Metcalf in a review of Tom Cruise&#8217;s career<\/a> for <em>Slate<\/em> summarized almost my entire point with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8217;80s did for money what the &#8217;60s did for sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Metcalf goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They told a miraculously tempting lie about the curative powers of disinhibition. It took AIDS, feminism, and sociobiology a while to catch up to our illusions about free love. It has taken cronyism, speculation, and manic overleveraging a while to catch up to our illusions about free money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the points I tried to make in this piece this October was the similarity of the radicalism of the 1980s to the radicalism of the 1960s &#8211; and how both were responsible for overturning the economic and social stability of the 1950s and early 1960s. But Stephen Metcalf in a review of Tom [&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":[23,5,458],"tags":[76,1160,1161],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-slate","tag-stephen-metcalf","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-sE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}