{"id":46424,"date":"2011-09-13T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/13\/when-i-was-in-high-school-i-asked-myself-at-one\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:31:12","slug":"when-i-was-in-high-school-i-asked-myself-at-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/13\/when-i-was-in-high-school-i-asked-myself-at-one\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I was in high school\u2026 I asked myself at one point: \u201cWhy do i care if my high school\u2019s team wins the football game? I don\u2019t know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me\u2026 why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense.\u201d But the point is, it does make sense: It\u2019s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it\u2019s training in irrational jingoism. That\u2019s also a feature of competitive sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Manufacturing Consent &#8211; Noam Chomsky (via <a href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school\u2026 I asked myself at one point: \u201cWhy do i care if my high school\u2019s team wins the football game? I don\u2019t know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me\u2026 why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense.\u201d But the point is, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/13\/when-i-was-in-high-school-i-asked-myself-at-one\/\" 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":[417,416],"class_list":["post-46424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chomsky","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\/46424","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=46424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}