{"id":357,"date":"2011-12-27T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-12-27T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T15:38:10","slug":"turboparalysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/turboparalysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Turboparalysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The age of turboparalysis<br \/>\nThe world faces years of ineffective rebellion and enduring recession<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/27\/the_age_of_turboparalysis\/singleton\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/27\/the_age_of_turboparalysis\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very nice way of putting our current situation of lots of activity without any progress.  I also like the idea that we are in an interregnum, summed up here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cIs it a revolt?\u201d King Louis XVI asked the Duke de la Rouchefoucauld on July 12, 1789, only to receive the reply:  \u201cNo, sire, it is a revolution.\u201d  Revolts by peasants and workers throughout history have fizzled out spontaneously or have been easily suppressed.  Revolts turn into revolutions only when a section of the elite breaks away with and sides with non-elite insurgents.  In doing so, the dissident members of the elite often wish to preserve as much of their status or property as they can, by leading and shaping a movement that would otherwise displace them.  Joe Kennedy explained his support for the New Deal by saying that he would give away half his wealth if as a result he were allowed to keep the other half.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, until some significant portion of the elite (and who, exactly, is this elite?  If it is the wealthy and powerful, I think we have a very long wait) figures it is in their best interest to join in fomenting revolution, we got bupkis&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUntil then, we may be stuck in a prolonged interregnum between an old system that cannot be re-created and a new system that cannot yet be built.  We may have to endure years of activity without action and motion without movement \u2014 years of turboparalysis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age of turboparalysis The world faces years of ineffective rebellion and enduring recession http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/27\/the_age_of_turboparalysis\/singleton\/ A very nice way of putting our current situation of lots of activity without any progress. I also like the idea that we are in an interregnum, summed up here: \u201cIs it a revolt?\u201d King Louis XVI asked the Duke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/turboparalysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turboparalysis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}