{"id":55391,"date":"2016-08-21T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_we_are_in_an_age_of_unprecedented_self-admiration-but_why_does_this_trou\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:05:30","slug":"ft_we_are_in_an_age_of_unprecedented_self-admiration-but_why_does_this_trou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55391","title":{"rendered":"(FT) We are in an age of unprecedented self-admiration-but why does this trouble us so much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it doesn\u2019t matter; more and more, the word just feels true, and we\u2019re in an epidemic of diagnosis. But when the bore and the charmer both begin to look like a certain American politician, and the American politician reminds us of the worst of what\u2019s online, which may be what the whole younger generation is like, and <b>it begins to feel as if a new selfishness has taken the future hostage and your dinner companion is not just dull, your recently departed not just a fake, but the future itself is narcissism<\/b> \u201d\u201d it raises the question of what it is that we fear, exactly, when we say the word.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/1882c54e-607c-11e6-ae3f-77baadeb1c93.html\">Read it all<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it doesn\u2019t matter; more and more, the word just feels true, and we\u2019re in an epidemic of diagnosis. But when the bore and the charmer both begin to look like a certain American politician, and the American politician reminds<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55391\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,168,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}