{"id":400,"date":"2012-01-05T18:13:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=400"},"modified":"2012-01-05T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:13:17","slug":"the-solution-is-clear-the-implementation-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/05\/the-solution-is-clear-the-implementation-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The solution is clear, the implementation is not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political power of being na\u00efve<br \/>\nCynicism makes us complacent. 2011&#8217;s successful protests show how hope can change the system<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/05\/the_political_power_of_being_naive\/singleton\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/05\/the_political_power_of_being_naive\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The core of the problem is money.  Remove the money and turning things around gets orders of magnitude easier (but not &#8216;easy&#8217;!).  As long as the money remains, change is impossible.  The author blithely talks about a Constitutional amendment, but I see that as virtually impossible also.  I find it very hard to avoid cynicism, I am not sure there is a viable path forward.  I would like there to be, but I am of the opinion that our oligarchy is firmly entrenched and the best we could possibly hope for would be for the oligarchy to decide to increase the illusion that the 99% matter (the worst case, in my mind, is the 99% continues in it&#8217;s anti-science, anti-elite backlash like Mao fermented in China where people like me are driven out of the country (believe me, I am thinking about it on a weekly basis already!)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political power of being na\u00efve Cynicism makes us complacent. 2011&#8217;s successful protests show how hope can change the system http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/05\/the_political_power_of_being_naive\/singleton\/ The core of the problem is money. Remove the money and turning things around gets orders of magnitude easier (but not &#8216;easy&#8217;!). As long as the money remains, change is impossible. The author blithely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/05\/the-solution-is-clear-the-implementation-is-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The solution is clear, the implementation is not&#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-400","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\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}