{"id":8911,"date":"2020-02-05T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:47:33","slug":"teleology-always-the-unimaginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=8911","title":{"rendered":"Teleology, always. The Unimaginable. USA, USA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-51381625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"><p>&#8222;In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America&#8217;s destiny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back!&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump repeatedly swiped at Democrats, including left-wing candidates such as Bernie Sanders who are vying to challenge him for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;We will never let socialism destroy American healthcare!&#8220; said the president\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The American Age, the American Epic, the American Adventure, has only just begun.&#8220;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8915\" style=\"width: 1499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8915\" class=\"wp-image-8915 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deployed-military-husband-makes-surprise-return-February-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"1651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deployed-military-husband-makes-surprise-return-February-2020.jpg 1489w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deployed-military-husband-makes-surprise-return-February-2020-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deployed-military-husband-makes-surprise-return-February-2020-768x852.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deployed-military-husband-makes-surprise-return-February-2020-1385x1536.jpg 1385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left Rush Limbaugh wears his Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find myself musing about two concepts here: the <em>unimaginable<\/em>, and the <em>never going back<\/em>. Words like <em>unimaginable, unbelievable, inconceivable<\/em>, seem less and less useful as indications of probability. If a society looses itself from bonds of minimal coherence with empirical reality can it conceive of a <em>back<\/em> to return to? Can it understand that it has journeyed from that back? If it ravages its ability to think critically how available in fact are common referents for terms like <em>journey<\/em>? I wonder if there becomes only the chaotic <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: &#8222;In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America&#8217;s destiny. &#8222;We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=8911\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}