Heinlein is a genius:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remind me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jubal told her, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. Titles is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGossip Unlimited\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no, make that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGossip Gone Wild.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I read this at lunch and had to put down the book. It made me get back to the office in 1\/2 an hour instead of the full hour allotted to me.<\/p>\n
This applies to SO<\/em><\/strong> much of our society. Blogs, Jerry Springer, and\u00c2\u00a0reality TV are just the modern equivalents of going to watch executions. We like to see others suffer and suffer big.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Heinlein is a genius: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remind me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jubal told her, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. Titles is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGossip Unlimited\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no, make that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGossip Gone Wild.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[977,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-livejournal","category-movies-films-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1rUBW-2203","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}