{"id":992,"date":"2013-05-29T13:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2013-05-29T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T21:56:41","slug":"twidiocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Twidiocracy&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, new words. This one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/twidiocracy_719178.html?page=1\">in an article online<\/a>: My comment: seeking connectedness through twitter and so forth: It&#8217;s not a religion. It&#8217;s just the latest intoxicant. Think of it, having followers! wow! Not that it doesn\u2019t have a function. I acknowledge this: But now the electronic media has figured out a way to get us hooked. That drugs can do this, duh. That foods can do this&#8212;growing awareness of their subtle addicto-genic power. That <em>media<\/em> can do it? Well, this is just a joining of the chorus of wake-up calls. It draws on the deep socio-psychological need to feel connected, even if this is an illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, new words. This one, in an article online: My comment: seeking connectedness through twitter and so forth: It&#8217;s not a religion. It&#8217;s just the latest intoxicant. Think of it, having followers! wow! Not that it doesn\u2019t have a function. I acknowledge this: But now the electronic media has figured out a way to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-mind-spectrums","category-social-depth-psychology-sociometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}