{"id":286,"date":"2023-08-17T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2023-08-17T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:13:28","slug":"fair-use-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/fair-use-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Use #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you put people in a moral vacuum, they will seek to fill it with the closest thing at hand. Over the past several years, people have sought to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/10\/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america\/616581\/\">fill the moral vacuum<\/a>&nbsp;with politics and tribalism. . . . . For people who feel disrespected, unseen, and alone, politics is a seductive form of social therapy. It offers them a comprehensible moral landscape: The line between good and evil runs not down the middle of every human heart, but between groups. Life is a struggle between us, the forces of good, and them, the forces of evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8211; David Brooks, writing in <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2023\/09\/us-culture-moral-education-formation\/674765\/\">How America Got Mean<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People who cannot fill the emptiness in the place marked &#8216;religion&#8217; with something worthwhile will fill it with whatever is at hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8211; <em>\u05de\u05de\u05e8\u05d0<\/em>, &#8220;The Right Solution&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you put people in a moral vacuum, they will seek to fill it with the closest thing at hand. Over the past several years, people have sought to&nbsp;fill the moral vacuum&nbsp;with politics and tribalism. . . . . For people who feel disrespected, unseen, and alone, politics is a seductive form of social therapy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamre-book.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}