{"id":44780,"date":"2012-01-31T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/this-is-an-oversimplification-but-for-the-eighty\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:42:17","slug":"this-is-an-oversimplification-but-for-the-eighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/this-is-an-oversimplification-but-for-the-eighty\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about \u201cMother With Child With Six Heads,\u201d or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or get involved in fundamentalist stuff or something or other. Just get them away. Get them away from things that matter. And for that it\u2019s important to reduce their capacity to think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about \u201cMother With Child With Six Heads,\u201d or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/this-is-an-oversimplification-but-for-the-eighty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[416],"class_list":["post-44780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-noam-chomsky","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}