{"id":12063,"date":"2009-12-02T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/visualize-using-your-turn-signals\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:54:18","slug":"visualize-using-your-turn-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/visualize-using-your-turn-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualize Using Your Turn Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c012876044a35970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visualize\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c012876044a35970c \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c012876044a35970c-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> This is one of my favorite bumper stickers, and not just because there are all too many motorists clogging the roads who seem unacquainted with the function of turn signals. The sticker is a parody of \u2018Visualize World Peace\u2019 (\u2018Visualize Whirled Peas\u2019). Visualizing something as nebulous and utopian as world peace is about as pointless as the sort of visualizing going on in John Lennon\u2019s silly ditty, \u201cImagine.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If you want to improve the world, try visualizing some concrete action that it is in your power to perform such as letting a motorist enter your lane. Better, visualize an entire day in which you gratuitously offend no one in word or deed. Then take the next step: visualize an entire day in which you gratuitously offend no one in word or deed, and entertain no negative thoughts to boot. In the end, there is only one person over whose behavior you have any real control, namely, yourself. So if you are serious about improving the world, you can start with that guy. If you desire peace in the world, begin by making war against your lower self. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I am not saying that this is sufficient for world peace, but it may well be necessary.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite bumper stickers, and not just because there are all too many motorists clogging the roads who seem unacquainted with the function of turn signals. The sticker is a parody of \u2018Visualize World Peace\u2019 (\u2018Visualize Whirled Peas\u2019). Visualizing something as nebulous and utopian as world peace is about as pointless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/visualize-using-your-turn-signals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visualize Using Your Turn Signals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtues-and-vices","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}