{"id":65507,"date":"2023-07-16T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65507"},"modified":"2023-07-16T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T14:53:17","slug":"creating-a-world-of-distrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65507","title":{"rendered":"Creating a World of Distrust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"before-post\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/07\/15\/creating-a-world-of-distrust\/\"><span class=\"the-title\">Creating a World of Distrust<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_page-content post\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">I remember a time when people were left to their own devices when determining what to pay attention to and what to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Remember \u201cBat Boy?\u201d A strange Weekly World News (sister tabloid to the National Enquirer) creation set to terrorize and dismay. Did anyone really believe this? I doubt if many did. Some did, I\u2019m sure, but what can \u2018ya do?<\/p>\n<p>I remember wondering about it. I was still young and impressionable (actually, I still wonder about it, I guess I am old and impressionable now). The operative word here is \u201cwonder.\u201d No government agency told me I was not allowed to wonder if something was \u201ctrue\u201d or not. I figured that out on my own. Why is this good?<\/p>\n<p>Well, for one thing, you would have to be a nutcase to allow the government, or any authoritative power, to tell you what you were allowed to wonder about. Secondly, wondering is healthy. It hones your senses; you figure stuff out on your own. There is nothing more powerful than having to figure something out on your own. It takes something called \u201cthinking\u201d\u2014which seems to be in low supply these days.<\/p>\n<p>I just saw a meme with two heads speaking to one another. One head is visibly angry and is saying something like, \u201clook at this!!!\u201d holding up a cell phone. The other head says, \u201coh yeah, let me tell you what I think of that.\u201d The angry head says, \u201cshut up idiot!! You are not an expert!!\u201d There\u2019s more to it than that, but that\u2019s enough to make my point.<\/p>\n<p>Expert? Since when do you have to be an expert to have an opinion?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a World of Distrust I remember a time when people were left to their own devices when determining what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Remember \u201cBat Boy?\u201d A strange Weekly World News (sister tabloid to the National Enquirer) creation set to terrorize and dismay. Did anyone really believe this? I doubt [&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":[2861,16783,14545,26071,24368,33836,815],"class_list":["post-65507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-distrust","tag-expertise","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-management","tag-off-guardian-2","tag-todd-hayen","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507","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=65507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65508,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507\/revisions\/65508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}