{"id":686,"date":"2020-10-16T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:48:12","slug":"the-danger-of-the-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/the-danger-of-the-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The danger of the tipping point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to some interviews with Douglas Murray recently. He&#8217;s very good. <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9n8fWSqgC90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video,<\/a> there&#8217;s an interesting interchange about tipping points. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if generally conservative people looked at the madness around them &#8212; in schools, universities, government, private industry, entertainment, social media, etc. &#8212; and thought, &#8220;it can&#8217;t go on much longer. People will realize how stupid this is and they&#8217;ll back off.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And then they don&#8217;t back off, and things get worse, and the conservatives think, &#8220;Oh, but this will be the tipping point. People won&#8217;t accept that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one will be the tipping point&#8221; is wishful thinking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to some interviews with Douglas Murray recently. He&#8217;s very good. In this video, there&#8217;s an interesting interchange about tipping points. It&#8217;s as if generally conservative people looked at the madness around them &#8212; in schools, universities, government, private industry, entertainment, social media, etc. &#8212; and thought, &#8220;it can&#8217;t go on much longer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/the-danger-of-the-tipping-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The danger of the tipping point&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}