{"id":12591,"date":"2010-01-14T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2010-01-14T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:17:16","slug":"ed-clark-the-proliferation-of-neo-primitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12591","title":{"rendered":"Ed Clark: The proliferation of neo-primitives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TEN THESES ON THE PROLIFERATION OF NEO-PRIMITIVES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Human beings look for the easiest solution to any problem they may face. This is as true for the problem of abolishing class society as it is for the problem of securing food, clothing, shelter, etc. Since what appears at first glance to be the \u201ceasiest\u201d solution is usually so badly misleading as to be useless, it often takes a long time before people give up the \u201ceasy\u201d answer and begin to make real process in solving their problems.<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ceasiest solution\u201d to all human problems was summed up by Walt Disney: \u201cwishing will make it so:\u201d This answer requires no physical and very little mental work. Anyone can do it in their spare time. Whether you use it to invent Gods and Devils or to explain how class society will be overthrown, it remains equally useful and always available. Of course, it does have one tiny little shortcoming. it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connexions.org\/RedMenace\/Docs\/RM4-NeoPrimitives.htm\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEN THESES ON THE PROLIFERATION OF NEO-PRIMITIVES 1 Human beings look for the easiest solution to any problem they may face. This is as true for the problem of abolishing class society as it is for the problem of securing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12591\">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":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3h5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}