{"id":82767,"date":"2022-07-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82767"},"modified":"2022-07-10T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:39:31","slug":"the-five-stages-of-progressive-arrogance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82767","title":{"rendered":"The Five Stages Of Progressive Arrogance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elizabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross popularized the notion of the Stages of Grief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to need to do one for &#8220;progressive&#8221; approaches to an issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a whack at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Panic<\/strong>: Declare that something is a crucial issue that is going to cause massive, seismic change. <\/li><li><strong>Ignore <\/strong> those who dissent. <\/li><li><strong>Mock <\/strong>the dissenters<\/li><li><strong>Attack, mock and deplatform <\/strong>dissenters. <\/li><li>And, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEconomist\/status\/1545639423890579456\">when at long last you are proven wrong, <strong>Clalm you knew it all along<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>As re Covid shutdowns, they just got to step 5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New data suggest that the damage from shutting down schools has been worse than almost anyone expected <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NFwisYrDsg\">https:\/\/t.co\/NFwisYrDsg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Economist (@TheEconomist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEconomist\/status\/1545639423890579456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps by way of starting over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s time for a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/06\/why-we-must-demand-apologies-from-leaders-who-got-covid-wrong\/\">truth and reconciliation commission<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross popularized the notion of the Stages of Grief. I&#8217;m going to need to do one for &#8220;progressive&#8221; approaches to an issue. Let&#8217;s take a whack at it. Panic: Declare that something is a crucial issue that is going to cause massive, seismic change. Ignore those who dissent. Mock the dissenters Attack, mock and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82770,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82767\/revisions\/82770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}