{"id":1671,"date":"2011-08-05T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:51:55","slug":"well-now-heres-a-practical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Well now here&#8217;s a practical education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read carefully through today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/lincoln-steffens-show.html\">Lincoln Steffens Show<\/a> post at No Fear of the Future and just see (a) how many dots you had\/hadn&#8217;t already connected, (b) how many things you vow to keep an eye upon as the Circus continues to unfold before our eyes. Some exemplary bits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the perfect Narcissists to star in the next generation reality show are the ones who created their own illusory documentary narrative long before Survivor and The Bachelor: the American politicians who love nothing more than to engage in on-camera histrionics designed to manipulate the emotions of the general public around a largely illusory conflict between two political parties who represent an illusion of meaningful ideological difference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The 20th century revelation that probably had the most lasting cultural impact was Freud&#8217;s\u2014that people are governed by primitive animal natures and appetitive drives that are often more powerful than reason. Freud&#8217;s insights were cynically employed on the this side of the Atlantic through his nephew Edward Bernays, the father of modern public relations, who overthrew the 19th century convention of fact-based advertising in favor of subtextual appeals to the baser natures&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read carefully through today&#8217;s Lincoln Steffens Show post at No Fear of the Future and just see (a) how many dots you had\/hadn&#8217;t already connected, (b) how many things you vow to keep an eye upon as the Circus continues to unfold before our eyes. Some exemplary bits: &#8230;the perfect Narcissists to star in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argybargy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}