{"id":240,"date":"2007-06-09T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T19:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-09-16T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T22:07:10","slug":"our-betters-are-smarter-than-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Osama&#8217;s Still on the Loose . . . Ooh, it&#8217;s Paris Hilton!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Paris Hilton sat in a cell,<br \/>\nParis Hilton felt rather unwell,<br \/>\nAll her great fortune and lawyerly men,<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t spring Paris Hilton again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hah! So there! Justice is served!<\/p>\n<p>Still, something about\u00a0this morality play makes me\u00a0feel . . . well, manipulated.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t there other, more important people who should be in jail?\u00a0 While we focus our attention on the likes of Paris Hilton,\u00a0aren&#8217;t our CEOs busy whittling away at our wages, benefits, and pensions?\u00a0 While we cheer on the judge who sent Paris Hilton back to jail, aren&#8217;t the men who run the world committing crimes of colossal scale?<\/p>\n<p>Remember the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_Minutes_Hate\">Two Minutes Hate<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Eighty-Four\">1984<\/a>?\u00a0How paranoid does one have to be to wonder whether our betters are intentionally distracting us &#8211; in just such an Orwellian manner &#8211; to keep us from turning on them?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: as paranoid as me!<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one\u00a0feeling used.\u00a0 Check out what the\u00a0brilliant\u00a0people at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009085.html#009085\">Making Light<\/a> have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Hilton sat in a cell, Paris Hilton felt rather unwell, All her great fortune and lawyerly men, Couldn&#8217;t spring Paris Hilton again. Hah! So there! Justice is served! Still, something about\u00a0this morality play makes me\u00a0feel . . . well, manipulated.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t there other, more important people who should be in jail?\u00a0 While we focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-culture","category-current-events","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}