{"id":26711,"date":"2019-11-19T08:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26711"},"modified":"2025-02-16T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:32:04","slug":"word-of-the-day-513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/11\/19\/word-of-the-day-513\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Manichean<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manichaeism taught an elaborate\u00a0<a title=\"Dualistic cosmology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dualistic_cosmology\">dualistic cosmology<\/a>\u00a0describing the\u00a0<a title=\"Conflict between good and evil\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conflict_between_good_and_evil\">struggle<\/a>\u00a0between a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Goodness and value theory\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goodness_and_value_theory\">good<\/a>, spiritual world of light, and an\u00a0<a title=\"Evil\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evil\">evil<\/a>, material world of darkness.\u00a0Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian religious movements and\u00a0<a title=\"Gnosticism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gnosticism\">Gnosticism<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manichaeism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/11\/andrew-sullivan-the-intersectional-lefts-political-endgame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Glimpse at the Intersectional Left\u2019s Political Endgame<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, <em><strong>New York Intelligencer<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/ck309gyeh00113g62c8rptdcf@published\" data-word-count=\"98\">[Ibram X. Kendi\u2019s] capable of conveying the complicated dynamics of that violent mugging on a bus, but somehow insists that the only real violence is the structural \u201cviolence\u201d of racist power. After a while, you realize that this worldview cannot be contradicted or informed by any discipline outside itself \u2014 sociology, biology, psychology, history. Unlike any standard theory in the social sciences, Kendi\u2019s argument \u2014 one that is heavily rooted in critical theory \u2014 about a Manichean divide between racist and anti-racist forces cannot be tested or falsified. Because there is no empirical reality outside the \u201cpower structures\u201d it posits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manichean: Manichaeism taught an elaborate\u00a0dualistic cosmology\u00a0describing the\u00a0struggle\u00a0between a\u00a0good, spiritual world of light, and an\u00a0evil, material world of darkness.\u00a0Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. Its beliefs were based \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/11\/19\/word-of-the-day-513\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41968,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26711\/revisions\/41968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}