{"id":1801,"date":"2014-11-19T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:00:14","slug":"do-we-live-on-a-one-party-planet-common-dreams-breaking-news-views-for-the-progressive-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Do We Live on a One Party Planet? | Common Dreams | Breaking News &#038; Views for the Progressive Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2014\/11\/18\/do-we-live-one-party-planet\">Do We Live on a One Party Planet? | Common Dreams | Breaking News &amp; Views for the Progressive Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">The truth can be a slippery thing. \u00a0We each have a version but it slips and slides about in our minds as we deal with the constant flood of information coming at us from all sides, not to mention trying to balance this expert view against that, between what we know, what we think we know, and what we suspect. We are all at the mercy of cognitive biases and layers of assumptions and associations built up over our lifetimes. And so we need reference points to help mark the key geographical features of our worldview. And, sometimes, we need some of those reference points visible in our world, amongst our tribes of friends, colleagues, allies and families. It\u2019s very difficult for most of us to make our way in the world and act with the determination we often crave without some acknowledgement that we\u2019re not the only ones seeing the world as we do. The bigger the thought, the less pleasant it is to assimilate, and the further out from the mainstream it lives, the more important that acknowledgment can be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">The 1%-99% Occupy meme was one of those markers. The reason it travelled so far and fast wasn\u2019t because it told people something altogether new, but rather that it capped off and gave voice to thoughts they already had. \u00a0It didn\u2019t teach as much as it validated and articulated.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'PT Serif', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'PT Serif', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;\">At<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #336699; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.therules.org\/\">\u00a0\/The Rules<\/a>, we think its time for a new marker; one that grows very much from the 1%-99% meme, and, hopefully, adds something important. And it\u2019s that we now all live on a\u00a0<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #336699; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChangeTheRules\/one-party-planet\">One Party Planet<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'PT Serif', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do We Live on a One Party Planet? | Common Dreams | Breaking News &amp; Views for the Progressive Community. The truth can be a slippery thing. \u00a0We each have a version but it slips and slides about in our minds as we deal with the constant flood of information coming at us from all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1253,1254,1251,1250,1252],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1253","tag-1254","tag-cognitive-bias","tag-truth","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}