{"id":4968,"date":"2009-03-09T21:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:34:48","slug":"inane-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Inane New World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via ThinkProgress, conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research, and then some, fundamentally changing \u2013 remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought us Eugenics. It was the progressive movement and it science. Let\u2019s put science truly in her place. If evolution is right, why don\u2019t we just help out evolution? That was the idea. And sane people agreed with it!<\/p>\n

And it was from America. Progressive movement in America. Eugenics. In case you don\u2019t know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. \u2026. The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening. So I guess I have to put my name on yes, I hope Barack Obama fails. But I just want his policies to fail; I want America to wake up. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, as you can tell by the little thing on the left side of this page, I'm reading Brave New World right now. Pretty good, though half of the joy comes from seeing what 1932 thought the future would look like: surprisingly, it looks like 1932 with helicopters and eugenics. Some other things this book has taught me: <\/p>\n

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  1. The Feelies obviously got their name from this book\n
  2. Bauhaus' song Silent Hedges<\/a><\/i> contains several lines taken directly from this book. The song itself is nearly opaque<\/a>, but knowing that some of the lines are from this book, I can at least pretend I know what he's singing about... after 20 years of not even being able to pretend.\n
  3. Glenn Beck is an idiot.\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Via ThinkProgress, conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck: So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research, and then some, fundamentally changing \u2013 remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought us Eugenics. It was the progressive movement and it science. Let\u2019s put science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}