{"id":3802,"date":"2010-03-12T05:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2010-03-12T05:39:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:39:14","slug":"quote-marginal-revolution-the-role-of-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/12\/quote-marginal-revolution-the-role-of-the-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote :: Marginal Revolution: The role of the blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This reminds me of the experiment they did on how you create solidarity. The answer being find a common enemy. The long form of the quote below is also nice to read. Read it at the linked site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The role of the blogosphere<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New research supports the notion that we fixate on enemies, and inflate their power, as a defense mechanism against generalized anxiety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The longer article is\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/politics\/the-comforting-notion-of-an-all-powerful-enemy-10429\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\nPosted by Tyler Cowen on March 10, 2010 at 06:45 AM in Science, Weblogs | Permalink<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/03\/the-role-of-the-blogosphere.html\">Marginal Revolution: The role of the blogosphere<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reminds me of the experiment they did on how you create solidarity. The answer being find a common enemy. The long form of the quote below is also nice to read. Read it at the linked site. The role of the blogosphere New research supports the notion that we fixate on enemies, and inflate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/12\/quote-marginal-revolution-the-role-of-the-blogosphere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote :: Marginal Revolution: The role of the blogosphere&#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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","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=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}