{"id":6208,"date":"2012-08-05T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2012-08-05T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T04:42:42","slug":"requiem-for-self-righteous-pricks-social-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/requiem-for-self-righteous-pricks-social-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for Self-Righteous Pricks &#038; Social Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Theory of Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6210\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/speaktruth1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6210\" title=\"Every Nazi who ever lived argued they were only doing their Job!\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/speaktruth1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/speaktruth1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/speaktruth1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nuremberg revisited<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Message to Voting Cattle &amp; Jurors<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t5FNDRgPOLs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you hear in this video is from the audiobook of &#8220;The Iron Web,&#8221; a novel written years ago. (The printed book and audiobook are at LarkenRose.com). These are the words of a fictional character in the book, and he says quite a bit more. And yes, the character is rather harsh in his condemnation of state-worship, but for a reason. If you have the story context of who is saying it, where, when, and why, some of it makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There are none so blind as those who *will* not see.<br \/>\n&#8220;None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.&#8221; &#8211;<\/span>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Why should I trade 1 tyrant 3,000 miles away for 3,000 tyrants 1 mile away?<\/em>&#8221; -Mather Byles-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Theory of Government Message to Voting Cattle &amp; Jurors &#8220;What you hear in this video is from the audiobook of &#8220;The Iron Web,&#8221; a novel written years ago. (The printed book and audiobook are at LarkenRose.com). These are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/requiem-for-self-righteous-pricks-social-engineers\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}