{"id":41470,"date":"2018-12-05T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=41470"},"modified":"2018-12-05T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:17:11","slug":"dylan-moran-on-the-state-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/05\/dylan-moran-on-the-state-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Moran on the state of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-41470-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dylan_Moran_2018.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dylan_Moran_2018.mp4\">https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dylan_Moran_2018.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The new show, Dr Cosmos, which is touring, is about &#8220;the bonfire of now. The blazing relentlessness and the effect it has on you. How do you sit still without coming apart at the seams?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Middle age tends to accelerate the conviction that the world is going to hell in a handcart, but Moran points to &#8220;a massive consensus: we\u2019re all agreed that the world is indeed f*cked right now. Everyone knows that the American president is a ludicrous person, in Westminster we\u2019ve got two zombie political parties having a pretend show of political debate that\u2019s never going to lead to anything, and Britain is going through this extraordinary act of sending itself to its room and not coming down as a show of \u2013 what? You shat your pants in front of the whole world and you\u2019re sulking? It\u2019s embarrassed by its own behaviour, frankly, and it\u2019s a postcolonial sulk. Everybody\u2019s just looking around, waiting for the embarrassment to fade. But Britain has this tradition of carrying on resolutely, because you\u2019re committed to something, and is therefore locked into a position where it has to be seen to execute the absurdity it doesn\u2019t want to go through with. These are desperate times.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new show, Dr Cosmos, which is touring, is about &#8220;the bonfire of now. The blazing relentlessness and the effect it has on you. How do you sit still without coming apart at the seams?&#8221; Middle age tends to accelerate the conviction that the world is going to hell in a handcart, but Moran points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/05\/dylan-moran-on-the-state-of-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Dylan Moran on the state of the world&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,447],"class_list":["post-41470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-british-way","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dylan-Moran-4-e1425639366939.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-aMS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41478,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470\/revisions\/41478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}