{"id":1512,"date":"2021-08-16T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:13:03","slug":"the-slide-into-totalitarianism-via-menticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/16\/the-slide-into-totalitarianism-via-menticide\/","title":{"rendered":"The slide into totalitarianism via &#8220;Menticide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/logic-vs-illogic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/logic-vs-illogic-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/logic-vs-illogic-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/logic-vs-illogic.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is a decently interesting video. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about how a society can be moved towards totalitarianism. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Menticide&#8221; means killing of the mind. <\/p>\n<p>The idea of &#8220;monotonously repeated nonsense&#8221; seems quite apt for the world today. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that two of the preparations for totalitarianism are isolation and progressive waves of fear. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09maaUaRT4M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a decently interesting video. It&#8217;s about how a society can be moved towards totalitarianism. &#8220;Menticide&#8221; means killing of the mind. The idea of &#8220;monotonously repeated nonsense&#8221; seems quite apt for the world today. It&#8217;s interesting that two of the preparations for totalitarianism are isolation and progressive waves of fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}