{"id":4579,"date":"2010-01-05T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2010-01-05T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:15:12","slug":"the-past-should-stay-in-the-heart-where-it-belongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it was Ezra Klein who posted a link to this article with the note that he&#8217;s read authors on the same themes, but that this was better written than any other similar piece. I agree. William Deresiewicz writes a truly conservative piece &#8211; by which I don&#8217;t refer to the right-wing community held together by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=4459\">ressentiment<\/a><\/em>, but a political and social temperament that sees value in tradition &#8211; a conservatism that stands athwart history yelling, &#8220;Stop&#8221; as William F. Buckley wrote. Deresiewicz explains how \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Faux-Friendship\/49308\/\">Facebook is destroying friendship<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facebook holds out a utopian possibility: What once was lost will now be found. But the heaven of the past is a promised land destroyed in the reaching. Facebook, here, becomes the anti-madeleine, an eraser of memory. Carlton Fisk has remarked that he&#8217;s watched the videotape of his famous World Series home run only a few times, lest it overwrite his own recollection of the event. Proust knew that memory is a skittish creature that peeks from its hole only when it isn&#8217;t being sought. Mementos, snapshots, reunions, and now this\u2014all of them modes of amnesia, foes of true remembering.<strong> The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs. <\/strong>[my emphasis]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even so, you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/2parsecom\/12829636716\">become a fan of 2parse.com on Facebook<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it was Ezra Klein who posted a link to this article with the note that he&#8217;s read authors on the same themes, but that this was better written than any other similar piece. I agree. William Deresiewicz writes a truly conservative piece &#8211; by which I don&#8217;t refer to the right-wing community held [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,458,7],"tags":[580,2500],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-web","tag-facebook","tag-william-deresiewicz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1bR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}