{"id":1537,"date":"2005-10-27T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2005-10-27T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T18:04:00","slug":"gore-on-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Gore on the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/story\/2005\/10\/5\/14301\/6133\">speech<\/a> Gore gave in a tab for a few weeks, and I finally got around to reading it.  It&#8217;s an astute analysis of the situation.  But I don&#8217;t think his call for a return to past values is going to work.  The co-option of any major mode of communication by concentrated power is the norm.  We don&#8217;t have enough unrest to staff a reform movement.  Revolutions are led by those born to power who lose their inheritance, then lead those born without power.  But sacrifice is hard, and people need strong motivation to make dramatic change.  Gore qualifies as such a leader (as do many others), but the unrest isn&#8217;t there.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t intend this as a statement of ultimate truth, more a skeptical prediction based on an iffy heuristic.  I do however encourage responses. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a speech Gore gave in a tab for a few weeks, and I finally got around to reading it. It&#8217;s an astute analysis of the situation. But I don&#8217;t think his call for a return to past values is going to work. The co-option of any major mode of communication by concentrated power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gore on the Media&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}