{"id":15636,"date":"2025-11-29T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:40:50","slug":"modest-mouse-is-not-wrong-about-the-dangers-of-over-permissiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15636","title":{"rendered":"Modest Mouse is not wrong about the dangers of over-permissiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Modest Mouse&#8217;s Isaac Brock lives in Portland, Oregon, but he&#8217;s not at all excited about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with Polish website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muzyka.onet.pl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Onet<\/a>, Brock had some harsh things to say about the city, as\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/portland\/blog-33417-isaac_brock_on_portland_what_a_collection_of_human_turds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Willamette Week<\/a><\/em>\u00a0points out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He admits he kind of ended up in Portland out of circumstance, but it&#8217;s not really where he&#8217;d like to live. He continued: &#8220;Portland is weird, but it\u2019s kind of a crappy weird. It is the most vagrant-ridden&#8230; it\u2019s really fuckin\u2019 up my liberal mind. I\u2019m just like, what a collection of human turds.\u00a0Within the one week before I came on this tour, I had to run people out of my house. Twice with axes.\u00a0Two people died. This is within 300 feet of my house. It\u2019s just a constant shitshow of fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;And that\u2019s just Portland keeping itself weird. That&#8217;s the saying:&nbsp;<em>Keep Portland weird<\/em>&#8230; It\u2019s a cool city. But a lot of the keeping itself weird is actually just allowing people to be complete pieces of shit. And that\u2019s exhausting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/60314-modest-mouses-isaac-brock-hates-on-portland-crappy-city-of-human-turds\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/60314-modest-mouses-isaac-brock-hates-on-portland-crappy-city-of-human-turds\/\">watch the video and read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modest Mouse&#8217;s Isaac Brock lives in Portland, Oregon, but he&#8217;s not at all excited about it. In an interview with Polish website\u00a0Onet, Brock had some harsh things to say about the city, as\u00a0Willamette Week\u00a0points out. He admits he kind of ended up in Portland out of circumstance, but it&#8217;s not really where he&#8217;d like to live. He continued: &#8220;Portland is weird, but it\u2019s kind of a crappy weird. It is the most vagrant-ridden&#8230; it\u2019s really fuckin\u2019 up my liberal mind&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15636\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-44c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15638,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}