{"id":200476,"date":"2021-03-30T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/30\/quote-of-the-day-284\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:23:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/30\/quote-of-the-day-284\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">This is an important distinction, because it means we&#8217;re not up against some intrinsic aspect of our being here. We&#8217;re up against a small minority of manipulative sociopaths and psychopaths and a system which rewards a lack of empathy.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-problem-isnt-human-nature-the\">Caitlin\u2019s Johnstone<\/a> explaining how she sees the current state of affairs as a function of a relatively small minority of assholes, and not the while human race.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is actually one of the more optimistic statements that Ms. Johnstone has made, and I hope that she&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, human survival has for most of our existence depended on empathy and cooperation, hunter gatherer societies, upwards of 95% of our history could not function without this.<\/p>\n<p>The current state of affairs, we can call it Neoliberalism, certainly does seem to cater to the absolute worst in us and of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an important distinction, because it means we&#8217;re not up against some intrinsic aspect of our being here. We&#8217;re up against a small minority of manipulative sociopaths and psychopaths and a system which rewards a lack of empathy. \u2014Caitlin\u2019s Johnstone explaining how she sees the current state of affairs as a function of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1003,1104,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}