{"id":638,"date":"2004-09-21T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=638"},"modified":"2004-09-21T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T13:02:27","slug":"retro-vs-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Retro vs. Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrovsmetro.org\/retrovsmetro\/\">The Great Divide<\/a> project.  Saw an ad for the site in <em>The Nation<\/em>. Old topic, new book.<\/p>\n<p>The following quote I lifted from Jonathan Schell&#8217;s piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20040927&#038;s=schell\"><em>Letter From Ground Zero The Grand Illusion<\/em><\/a> in the same September 27 issue:<\/p>\n<p><em>Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines, totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/p>\n<p>The question of the morning on C-Span&#8217;s <em>Washington Journal<\/em> a few days ago was whether the guardians of people with dementia should be allowed to cast their votes for them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who thinks this election offers a sensible choice or that their vote matters suffers a detectable degree of mental impairment.<\/p>\n<p>The question should have been &#8220;Is it wise for a nation of lunatics to possess nuclear weapons?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Divide project. Saw an ad for the site in The Nation. Old topic, new book. The following quote I lifted from Jonathan Schell&#8217;s piece Letter From Ground Zero The Grand Illusion in the same September 27 issue: Before &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=638\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}