{"id":60,"date":"2025-02-26T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-02-27T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:00:41","slug":"toothbrush-mustaches-and-the-violent-exchange-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/toothbrush-mustaches-and-the-violent-exchange-of-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Toothbrush Mustaches and the Violent Exchange of Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The moderates have set a big tent &#8211; something about \u201ca place for the great debate.\u201d&nbsp; Look at them in there with their toothbrush mustaches and their violent exchange of ideas.&nbsp; Who are they to think for themselves?&nbsp; This is unsafe.&nbsp; Where are their morals?&nbsp; Where is their conviction? It is self-evident that one can not be moral and have conviction while simultaneously suffering the other side to speak.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am left with no choice but to retreat deeper into the recesses of my echo chamber.&nbsp; For even in these outer halls of my ideological fortress there is far too much ferality, too much divergence in thought.&nbsp; Inevitably every protracted exchange with others devolves to a point of descent.&nbsp; Just when I think I have found a kindred spirit they all betray me with some dangerous idea, some wrinkle, some damn nuance that threatens to topple my whole construct.&nbsp; How dare they stray from my orthodoxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah yes, the deep recesses of my echo chamber are the place for me\u2014a cavernous conclave of mirrors. Mirrors, so I won\u2019t be alone. Humans are a social species, after all. What joy I will find as the mirrors mirror back the image of my clean-shaven upper lip and reflect rightly the signals of my virtue. Indeed, the sacred union with my own perfect image is the summum bonum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moderates have set a big tent &#8211; something about \u201ca place for the great debate.\u201d&nbsp; Look at them in there with their toothbrush mustaches and their violent exchange of ideas.&nbsp; Who are they to think for themselves?&nbsp; This is unsafe.&nbsp; Where are their morals?&nbsp; Where is their conviction? It is self-evident that one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[42,41,18,43,17],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-growth-reflection","tag-communication-influence","tag-critical-thinking","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-persuasion-sales","tag-self-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpweaverjr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}