{"id":17,"date":"2003-04-18T00:36:05","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T07:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2003-04-18T00:36:05","modified_gmt":"2003-04-18T07:36:05","slug":"we-see-too-much-we-know-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"We see too much, we know too much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother surprised me today.  She has been trolling the internet and snagged an interesting link to an article by John Pilger in Z Magazine entitled <a href =\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/content\/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&#038;ItemID=3395\">&#8216;We See Too Much, We Know Too Much. That&#8217;s Our Best Defense&#8217;<\/a> in which he basically asserts that our broad access to information has fundamentally changed the power dynamic, creating a problem for the hegemony in promoting propaganda. I hope he&#8217;s right.  Anecdotally it seems to ring true but the consensus building mechanisms of polling and compliant mass media are extremely powerful within  the US. How much &#8216;alternative&#8217; information about Iraq is filtering down to the bulk of  the population?  Only time will tell.<br \/>\nI spent the day wandering around in a rainforest which is slated to be sold, probably to loggers. Freedom means being able to cut down a 300 year old western red cedar tree and make it into lumber for a deck.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/massive.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother surprised me today. She has been trolling the internet and snagged an interesting link to an article by John Pilger in Z Magazine entitled &#8216;We See Too Much, We Know Too Much. That&#8217;s Our Best Defense&#8217; in which he basically asserts that our broad access to information has fundamentally changed the power dynamic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}