{"id":3478,"date":"2019-11-26T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/26\/of-ether-lead-and-misattribution\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:55:52","slug":"of-ether-lead-and-misattribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/26\/of-ether-lead-and-misattribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Ether, Lead, and Misattribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Those of us who pursue the ethereal should never forget that it is blood, iron, and lead that secure the spaces of tranquillity wherein we flourish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I found the following in a gun forum:&#0160; \u201cPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.\u201d It was attributed to George Orwell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I don&#39;t know whether&#0160;Orwell wrote those exact words.&#0160; I rather doubt that he did.&#0160; But he did write, in&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.george-orwell.org\/Notes_on_Nationalism\/0.html\" target=\"_self\">Notes on&#0160;Nationalism<\/a>, &quot;Those who &#39;abjure&#39; violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.&quot;&#0160; The thought is essentially the same, and a good and true thought it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Pacifism is for angels.&#0160; But we are mixed and mixed-up beings, half animal, half angel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">You should never trust any unsourced attribution you find on the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who pursue the ethereal should never forget that it is blood, iron, and lead that secure the spaces of tranquillity wherein we flourish. I found the following in a gun forum:&#0160; \u201cPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.\u201d It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/26\/of-ether-lead-and-misattribution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Ether, Lead, and Misattribution&#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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","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=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}