{"id":26584,"date":"2016-08-24T09:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26584"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:19:54","slug":"from-the-damn-i-wish-id-written-that-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/from-the-damn-i-wish-id-written-that-department\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;Damn, I wish I&#8217;d written that!&#8221; department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rosenberg: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemansperspective.com\/united-we-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">United We Fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mass movements and leaders always drag us in the wrong direction. <\/p>\n<p><strong>So\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, if you need a pile of bodies to knock down other bodies, unity\u2019s your ticket. If you want a large number of people to turn off their minds and obey you, unity\u2019s also your ticket, especially if you mix in some fear.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want, thinking, creative, upright, beneficial human beings, ditch unity and call for self-will.<\/p>\n<p>As individuals we rise.<\/p>\n<p>United we fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t realize Rosenberg also <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2bNOMK6\" target=\"_blank\">has a new novel<\/a> out this year. Even though it&#8217;s a collapse-of-civilization tale (a genre I&#8217;ve grown to groan over) and may be an example of &#8220;tell, don&#8217;t show&#8221; expository writing, it still sounds interesting. Just because it&#8217;s from Paul Rosenberg. And just because, for a change, the collapse of civilization-as-usual may present something other than chaos and cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalreview.news-digests.com\/todays-edition\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rosenberg: United We Fall. Mass movements and leaders always drag us in the wrong direction. So\u2026 So, if you need a pile of bodies to knock down other bodies, unity\u2019s your ticket. If you want a large number of people to turn off their minds and obey you, unity\u2019s also your ticket, especially if you mix in some fear. But if you want, thinking, creative, upright, beneficial human beings, ditch unity and call for self-will. As individuals we rise. United we fall. Didn&#8217;t realize Rosenberg also has a new novel out this year. Even though it&#8217;s a collapse-of-civilization tale&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/from-the-damn-i-wish-id-written-that-department\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the &#8220;Damn, I wish I&#8217;d written that!&#8221; department<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-mind-and-spirit","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26588,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26584\/revisions\/26588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}