{"id":112686,"date":"2025-10-10T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112686\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:18:10","slug":"a-fictional-revolution-just-when-the-critics-needed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112686\/","title":{"rendered":"A fictional revolution, just when the critics needed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Last night, I went to see what\u2019s already being hailed as the movie of the year by critics and many cinemagoers alike: Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s <\/b><b>One Battle After Another<\/b><b>. Having watched it and subsequently read a number of those rave reviews, I can only describe myself as experiencing a state of alienation not dissimilar to that so many of us felt in the days following Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is the effect of being reminded that you \u2013 social conservative of whatever stripe you may be \u2013 are surrounded by people who and immersed in a culture that think at worst you\u2019re a fascist, or at best, think you\u2019re enabling a fascist system or fascist resurgence, depending on the condition of social conservatism wherever you happen to find yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, I went to see what\u2019s already being hailed as the movie of the year by critics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[69775,18,117,19,17,23509,69776],"class_list":{"0":"post-112686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-culture-war","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-one-battle-after-another","14":"tag-revolutionary"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}