{"id":37989,"date":"2020-03-25T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=37989"},"modified":"2020-03-25T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:28:03","slug":"coen-simon-plea-against-enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/coen-simon\/coen-simon-plea-against-enthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Coen Simon &#8211; Plea Against Enthusiasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re not pessimists. No way. No fucking way.\u2019 No matter how passionately we might argue for a better world, we cannot deny that, besides enthusiasm, a feeling of helplessness reigns. For the first time in history, nihilism has taken hold. Anyone can believe anything without falling through the cracks. Because no matter what you are, be it an antivaxxer, climate-denier, Marxist or neoliberal, you will always have enough followers in your bubble. Today it\u2019s not truth, but enthusiasm that persuades. \u2018People don\u2019t buy what you do, but why you do it,\u2019 is the motto of a TED Talk with more than 46 million views. And that is how it is: rather than by facts, we\u2019d rather be convinced by ideas worth spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Coen Simons warns against the consequences of an enthusiasm that dispenses so easily with facts. Because while enthusiasm goes viral, the truth lies somewhere in the middle \u2013 between gluten-free rubbish and fact-free bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the book \u2018We\u2019re not pessimists. No way. No fucking way.\u2019 No matter how passionately we might argue for a better world, we cannot deny that, besides enthusiasm, a feeling of helplessness reigns. For the first time in history, nihilism has taken hold. Anyone can believe anything without falling through the cracks. Because no matter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":37997,"parent":37619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37989","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37989\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/37997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}