{"id":141,"date":"2005-09-07T03:43:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T10:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2005-09-07T03:43:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T10:43:47","slug":"a-convalescent-musing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"A Convalescent Musing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incompetence of the Bush administration&#8217;s response to the Gulf Coast disaster is explainable by the strictly dualistic worldview of the neo-conservatives who comprise it. For anyone who sees the world in terms of black or white, right or wrong, good or bad, true or false, either-or, there&#8217;s no room for third (or fourth or fifth) possibilities.  Action &#8220;A&#8221; *must* cause Result &#8220;B&#8221;, or their conception of reality falls apart. The neo-cons, therefore, are unable to cope with &#8212; or even recognize &#8212; chaos, especially when it results from their own actions, which could not possibly be in error.  When chaos does arise, they are paralyzed until they can formulate a new duality to account for the unexpected result.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happened in Bagdad when the Iraqis didn&#8217;t throw flowers, and it&#8217;s what happened in New Orleans when it turned out that many Americans actually gave a shit whether their less fortunate countrymen lived or died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incompetence of the Bush administration&#8217;s response to the Gulf Coast disaster is explainable by the strictly dualistic worldview of the neo-conservatives who comprise it. For anyone who sees the world in terms of black or white, right or wrong, good or bad, true or false, either-or, there&#8217;s no room for third (or fourth or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}