{"id":1950,"date":"2004-11-09T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2004-11-09T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T09:03:59","slug":"2004-11-9-some-people-have-all-the-historical-luck-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Some people have all the historical luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins on the European rediscovery of the Greeks that led to the Renaissance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What else can one say about it, except that some people have all the historical luck? When Europeans invent their traditions &#8212; with the Turks at the gates &#8212; it is a genuine cultural rebirth, the beginnings of a progressive future. When other peoples do it, it is a sign of cultural decadence, a factitious recuperation, which can only bring forth the simulacra of a dead past. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prickly-paradigm.com\/paradigm1.pdf\">Waiting for Foucault, Still<\/a> [PDF].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins on the European rediscovery of the Greeks that led to the Renaissance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What else can one say about it, except that some people have all the historical luck? When Europeans invent their traditions &#8212; with the Turks at the gates &#8212; it is a genuine cultural rebirth, the beginnings of a progressive future. When other peoples do it, it is a sign of cultural decadence, a factitious recuperation, which can only bring forth the simulacra of a dead past. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prickly-paradigm.com\/paradigm1.pdf\">Waiting for Foucault, Still<\/a> [PDF].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}