{"id":1531,"date":"2009-04-28T05:51:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2009-04-28T05:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:51:50","slug":"repostreclaiming-our-worldpaul-wilmotts-blog-society-has-finally-risen-to-the-level-of-its-own-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/28\/repostreclaiming-our-worldpaul-wilmotts-blog-society-has-finally-risen-to-the-level-of-its-own-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Reclaiming Our World:Paul Wilmott&#039;s Blog: Society Has Finally Risen To The Level Of Its Own Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>loved this post ! read the whole thing!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Society has risen to the level of its own incompetence and at the same time the means to return to a more sensible world has been legislated out of existence. The above we all know. But only some of us really care. If you are one of us, you will already know the solution, but you are perhaps understandably afraid to carry it out. The solution is this\u2026I ask please do your best to bring back <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom of speech\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_speech\">freedom of speech<\/a> and expression; Please be <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politics\">politically<\/a> incorrect at every opportunity; Tell jokes that are in bad taste; Travel on trains without a ticket, and then for your court appearance hire <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cherie Blair\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1193867\/\">Cherie Blair<\/a> as your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barrister\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barrister\">barrister<\/a>. Laugh in the faces of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Occupational safety and health\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occupational_safety_and_health\">health and safety<\/a> personnel <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Edmund Burke\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmund_Burke\">Edmund Burke<\/a>, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political philosophy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_philosophy\">political philosopher<\/a>, is attributed with the saying \u201cAll it takes for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Evil\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evil\">evil<\/a> to triumph is for good men to do nothing.\u201d I\u2019m not worried about evil, it\u2019s stupidity that is soon going to be victorious. But the world can only continue its descent into madness if you let it.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilmott.com\/blogs\/paul\/index.cfm\/2009\/4\/8\/Society-Has-Finally-Risen-To-The-Level-Of-Its-Own-Incompetence\">Paul Wilmott&#8217;s Blog: Society Has Finally Risen To The Level Of Its Own Incompetence<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/c6a50aeb-abc7-40a2-8678-db1a0702df8e\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>loved this post ! read the whole thing! Society has risen to the level of its own incompetence and at the same time the means to return to a more sensible world has been legislated out of existence. The above we all know. But only some of us really care. If you are one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/28\/repostreclaiming-our-worldpaul-wilmotts-blog-society-has-finally-risen-to-the-level-of-its-own-incompetence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Reclaiming Our World:Paul Wilmott&#039;s Blog: Society Has Finally Risen To The Level Of Its Own Incompetence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[322,476,524,668,1037,1116,1118,1455],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","tag-cherie-blair","tag-edmund-burke","tag-evil","tag-health","tag-occupational-safety-and-health","tag-political-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}