{"id":19392,"date":"2010-06-09T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2010-06-09T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:07:42","slug":"zombie-losing-the-new-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19392","title":{"rendered":"Zombie: Losing, the new winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Zombie steps out from behind the camera and sent a link to the  latest post at Pajama Media entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2010\/06\/04\/losing-is-the-new-winning\/\">Losing is the new winning<\/a>&#8221; about the declining importance of actually winning something;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do Canadian soccer scores, the Gaza Flotilla Incident, Marxism, and the origins of Christianity have in common? Simple: They all rely on the notion that winning is bad. The triumph of the downtrodden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The search for equality from cradle to grave has become ridiculous and bred a political movement;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The whole goal of sailing ships toward Gaza is not to \u201cbreak the blockade,\u201d but rather to seek out and initiate a conflict with the Israeli military. And here\u2019s the key: not merely to enter into a conflict with the Israelis, but specifically to lose a conflict with the Israelis. Because only by losing can the activists and militants claim the victimhood mantle and declare a moral victory. So, just as in a Canadian soccer game, by losing they win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2010\/06\/04\/losing-is-the-new-winning\/2\/\">the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Zombie steps out from behind the camera and sent a link to the latest &hellip; <a title=\"Zombie: Losing, the new winning\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19392\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zombie: Losing, the new winning<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}