{"id":6508,"date":"2024-05-01T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T00:45:50","slug":"d-e-i-do-we-know-better-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6508","title":{"rendered":"D E I &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; DO WE KNOW BETTER NOW ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The rapid-fire volley of new stuff, new ideas, new science, new religion, new crises, new mandates, new problems, new &#8216;solutions&#8217;, new education, new government, in recent years, pressures us to go along with&#8212;accept, endorse&#8212;all the latest, and apologize for everything that we hold dear, and that holds us together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideas get recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the original wanna-be master of the universe, the first successful propaganda, &#8220;Did God Really Say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t eat that.&#8217; ?&#8221;<br>It still works for him, and for all the willing cohorts who can&#8217;t submit to God, and serve the devil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New methods accomplish the same old goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Distract\/fool people to focus on the latest ideas\/trends, while behind-the-scenes leaders try again to take over and rule the world.<br>Tried before throughout history.<br>Many failed.<br>Some succeeded.<br>This time looks like The Big One, with so many new devices to control the people, by fear, by threats, by canceling daily functions to stay alive&#8212;for anyone who does not comply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid-fire volley of new stuff, new ideas, new science, new religion, new crises, new mandates, new problems, new &#8216;solutions&#8217;, new education, new government, in recent years, pressures us to go along with&#8212;accept, endorse&#8212;all the latest, and apologize for everything that we hold dear, and that holds us together. Ideas get recycled. From the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}