{"id":12336,"date":"2020-04-28T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:03:42","slug":"our-virus-is-a-violent-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-virus-is-a-violent-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Virus Is a Violent Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before this virus has passed, those of the New York Symphony, like the defeated Redcoats at proverbial Yorktown, will be playing the real \u201cThe World Turned Upside Down\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then strange motions will abound.
Yet let\u2019s be content, and the times lament,
you see the world turn\u2019d upside down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Before the virus, apparently we were prepping for our brave new progressive, centrally planned dystopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Barack Obama years, government agencies had begun to chart a new inclusive future for hoi polloi <\/em>Americans. We were lectured frequently that the Obama arc of the moral universe was long, but it always bent toward his sense of justice. Translated that meant, like it or not, we Americans had a preordained moral rendezvous with a progressive destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suburban lifestyles, yards, grass, rural living, and commute driving were to be phased out. High rises, government run-buses, and high-speed rail were in: more people in less space, with less energy consumed, meant less trouble. Granny was better off in a green rest home, not the back bedroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio was over; the EU was our future. Clean coal was a 20th-century embarrassment; the next and future Solyndra would be cutting-edge. The idea that the United States ought to be self-sufficient in energy and food seemed worthy of yawns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Before this virus has passed, those of the New York Symphony, like the defeated Redcoats at proverbial Yorktown, will be playing the real \u201cThe World Turned Upside Down\u201d: And then strange motions will abound.Yet let\u2019s be content, and the times lament,you see the world turn\u2019d upside down. 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