{"id":107,"date":"2010-02-15T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/02\/15\/intellectuals-and-society-comments\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:14:32","slug":"intellectuals-and-society-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/02\/15\/intellectuals-and-society-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectuals and Society &#8211; comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Documents%20and%20Settings\/Martin\/Application%20Data\/Mozilla\/Firefox\/Profiles\/4l4l8lmu.default\/chrome\/sagetoo\/sagetoo.html\">EconLog &#8211; Sage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking about Thomas Sowell&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Intellectuals-Society-Thomas-Sowell\/dp\/046501948X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1266162023&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Intellectuals and Society<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>For example, it is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d68bca98-da63-8751-8ccc-b751d995e001\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EconLog &#8211; Sage Talking about Thomas Sowell&#8217;s new book Intellectuals and Society For example, it is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters. Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}