{"id":1232,"date":"2010-07-04T20:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2010-07-04T20:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:48:51","slug":"getting-the-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/07\/04\/getting-the-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"getting the joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Save me from these corporate slugs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Showing H <em>The American Ruling Class<\/em>, even though she thinks that she has seen most of it. <\/p>\n<p>I tried to not be too prejudice against the people at the party, but I squarely felt like they weren&#8217;t contributors, and was reminded by the Goldman Sachs (former?) employee of the aforementioned documentary. Who are my people? Who do I identify with? I want to be someone who builds but I carefully try to weigh where I am.<\/p>\n<p>The internet, the social networks, sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/eaves.ca\/2010\/06\/16\/war-makes-facists-of-us-all-would-you-like-to-know-more\/\">piece<\/a> about how <em>Starship Troopers<\/em> is really about facism. I barely remember the movie, and bought it recently to follow up on this implication. I haven&#8217;t found anyone in my life that cares enough to be excited about figuring this out. I may force it on the willing soon.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion of Heinlein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starship_Troopers\">book<\/a> on wikipedia brings up meritocracies and my brain goes into overdrive considering the intersections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. &#8212; Margaret Meade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fourth bugs me, I would prefer to be out in the woods tonight, away from the fireworks, the parties, the police squads.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward. Good. Headed that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save me from these corporate slugs Showing H The American Ruling Class, even though she thinks that she has seen most of it. I tried to not be too prejudice against the people at the party, but I squarely felt like they weren&#8217;t contributors, and was reminded by the Goldman Sachs (former?) employee of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}