{"id":3253,"date":"2020-03-25T05:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/25\/do-you-get-hate-mail\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T05:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:19:52","slug":"do-you-get-hate-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/25\/do-you-get-hate-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do You Get Hate Mail?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">A philosopher sympathetic to my views asked me this question a year or two ago. I said that I used to, but no longer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Now why might that be despite an enlarged readership in a time of increasing political anger?&#0160; One possible explanation is that we are now so &#39;siloed&#39; into our positions that we read only our own.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Speaking of silos, a Mormon friend of a non-Mormon friend of mine purchased an old ICBM silo in Arizona. Now that&#39;s one serious prepper. &#0160;Moderate in all things, including moderation, I keep my prepping within the bounds of sense. And I read everything. <em>Nihil humanum, et cetera<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Companion post: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2020\/01\/word-of-the-day-oubliette.html\">Word of the Day: Oubliette<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4f59494200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oubliette\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4f59494200d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4f59494200d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Oubliette\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A philosopher sympathetic to my views asked me this question a year or two ago. I said that I used to, but no longer. Now why might that be despite an enlarged readership in a time of increasing political anger?&#0160; One possible explanation is that we are now so &#39;siloed&#39; into our positions that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/25\/do-you-get-hate-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Do You Get Hate Mail?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","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=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}