{"id":1205,"date":"2003-12-04T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2007-02-19T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T03:28:08","slug":"fukuyama-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Fukuyama III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking through my blog archives for major items to add to the &#8220;past rants&#8221; list on my front page <i>[since removed, Dec&#8217;04]<\/i>, as well as for broken links.  That activity led me again to <a href=http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=105002013>Francis Fukuyama&#8217;s goofy screed<\/a> of 2002 May 2, and I finally got around to following links to a whole mess of replies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johntabin.com\/archives\/000384.html\">John Tabin<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brinklindsey.com\/archives\/000298.php\">Brink Lindsey<\/a> <i>[gone]<\/i>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/000596.php\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/happyfunpundit.com\/hfp\/archives\/000150.html\">Dan Hanson<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/archives\/001454.php\">Stephen Green<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/2002\/apr29.html#fukuyama\">Virginia Postrel<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/000393.html\">Perry de Havilland<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/dieteman\/dieteman114.html\">David Dieteman<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/000392.html\">Christopher Pellerito<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2002_04_28_volokh_archive.html#76086361\">Eugene Volokh<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/oxblog.blogspot.com\/2002_04_28_oxblog_archive.html#76131664\">Anand Giridharadas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am disappointed to find practically all of them making the same point: &#8220;But Frank, <em>lots<\/em> of libertarians support US military interventions overseas.&#8221;  If anyone anywhere joined <a href=\"?p=313\">me<\/a> in observing that military force is not the only way to engage with the world, I missed it.  If anyone pointed out a distinction between defense and intervention, I missed it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.  &#8220;It is not worth an intelligent man&#8217;s time to be in the majority.  By definition, there are already enough people to do that.&#8221; (G H Hardy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking through my blog archives for major items to add to the &#8220;past rants&#8221; list on my front page [since removed, Dec&#8217;04], as well as for broken links. That activity led me again to Francis Fukuyama&#8217;s goofy screed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luddites","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}