{"id":87258,"date":"2024-04-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87258"},"modified":"2024-04-01T05:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:36:35","slug":"phd-thesis-on-bergs-seventh-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87258","title":{"rendered":"PhD Thesis On Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38419\">the oil boom<\/a> in North Dakota?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Strib and every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24598\">prog pundit with a blog<\/a> was patronizingly intoning how <em>dangerous <\/em>all that unseemly <em>oil money <\/em>was going to be for all the hayseeds out on the prairie?   When our cultural elites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49495\">prowled the prairie looking for the evil<\/a> that lies at the intersection of rural, Christian and suddenly prosperous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boom has moved on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressives have not.   Whenever they see new energy, and new money, they are there to whiz in the cereal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But someone, gloriously, pushed back.  This is Ibraham Ali, President of Guyana (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2024\/03\/the-best-climate-beatdown-of-the-year-so-far.php\">via Powerline<\/a>).   And he is not amused by a BBC hack&#8217;s by-the-woke-numbers first-world nattering:<\/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\">There are few things I enjoy quite as much as watching indoctrinated Western virtue signallers get epically destroyed by people from developing countries who are willing to be honest. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MkC2EIyQZR\">pic.twitter.com\/MkC2EIyQZR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KonstantinKisin\/status\/1773842259806417225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw this mere moments after I read this piece below &#8211; Musa Al Garbi&#8217;s observations about the endemic racism of upper-middle-class honkies in Manhattan.<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/eyeslasho\/status\/1773417748837667257\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Manhattan, and it&#8217;s not just race.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember during the oil boom in North Dakota? When the Strib and every prog pundit with a blog was patronizingly intoning how dangerous all that unseemly oil money was going to be for all the hayseeds out on the prairie? When our cultural elites prowled the prairie looking for the evil that lies at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,130,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258","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=87258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87262,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258\/revisions\/87262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}