{"id":1492,"date":"2018-08-09T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:38:17","slug":"deflection-of-necessary-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Deflection of Necessary Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1494\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1494\" class=\"wp-image-1494 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ihor-malytskyi-772762-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ihor-malytskyi-772762-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ihor-malytskyi-772762-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ihor-malytskyi-772762-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ihor-malytskyi-772762-unsplash-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ihor Malytskyi on Unsplash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is an old Chinese proverb:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Quand le sage montre la lune, l\u2019imb\u00e9cile regarde le doigt.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When the wise man points to the moon, the idiot looks at his finger.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paraphrased this morning in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\">Lib\u00e9ration<\/a>:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Quand le sage montre le climat, l&#8217;\u00e9conomiste regards l&#8217;inflation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>When the wise man points to the climate, the economist looks at inflation.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No wonder they call it &#8220;the dismal science&#8221;. This is the very picture of pretty much all out national and regional leaders who still don&#8217;t seem to get the urgency of the situation in which we find ourselves. This is Trudeau\/McKenna claiming to mitigate climate disruption while buying\/expanding dilbit infrastructure, Horgan building Site C, and a whole whack of premiers fracking merrily away and giving away to energy to foreigners without bothering to collect royalties or taxes. It&#8217;s clear that Trump and Ford aren&#8217;t the only idiots, they just have less of the veneer of sanity.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There is an old Chinese proverb: Quand le sage montre la lune, l\u2019imb\u00e9cile regarde le doigt. When the wise man points to the moon, the idiot looks at his finger. Paraphrased this morning in Lib\u00e9ration: Quand le sage montre &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4,7,13,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosphere","category-juststuff","category-kultcha","category-politics","category-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}