{"id":1140,"date":"2004-05-11T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2004-05-11T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T21:13:43","slug":"schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/05\/11\/schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It’s an imperfect measure, since the use of the word “puts
\nyou right on the border of Pretentia”<\/a> — and amongst the enemies of those there “Conservative \/ Right” are the “fancy pants liberal elites”<\/i>, “fancy pants liberal elites” I suppose being more prone to use the word “schadenfreude” than the “plain-pants conservative populists”.<\/p>\n

Still… it does, in a limited way, guage a zeitgist… any drip into the sewer represents a greater flood elsewhere. A handful of blogs have used the word “schadenfreude” as an attack on “liberal-left” reaction to the prison abuses in Iraq. (A useful protective stance and a wistful redirection, I suppose… today, fed into by remarks<\/a> from Senator James Inhofe.)<\/p>\n

See: here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a reason I have that term tracked. And this is it.<\/p>\n

……………………
\nNote<\/i>: There are 3 blogs linked. Only one is from the “conservative \/ right”. One is mocking the “psuedo – liberal \/ left” from a position of Marxist purity — and I’m almost prone to — more out of half-hearted hope than anything else — call it “satiric in nature”. The “long story short pier”<\/a> entry has nothing to do with the topic at hand, and was included in a moment of haste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s an imperfect measure, since the use of the word “puts you right on the border of Pretentia” — and amongst the enemies of those there “Conservative \/ Right” are the “fancy pants liberal elites”, “fancy pants liberal elites” I suppose being more prone to use the word “schadenfreude” than the “plain-pants conservative populists”. Still… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}