{"id":4659,"date":"2024-01-03T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2023-12-17T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:46:26","slug":"remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/03\/remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4661\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4661\" class=\"wp-image-4661 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti-1024x520.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti-1024x520.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti-768x390.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti-1536x780.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Graffiti.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">graffiti<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>imposed opinion &amp; conventional nescience<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember Galileo&#8217;s arrest for showing evidence to support the heliocentric theory of the solar system?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the witch hunts of Salem, during the Medieval; remember the Inquisition?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the promise of democracy, human rights and civil liberties?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember how the Nazi party got over 17 million votes, 43.9% of the total, more than any other party, in 1933?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">during<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> the 1940 USA presidential campaign Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised, \u201cWe will not send our armed forces to fight in lands across the sea.&#8221; and pledged \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">your boys are not going to be sent into a foreign war<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(1)<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember how <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>sex and drugs and rock &#8216;n roll<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> were believed to be the end of western civilization?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember how the whole world celebrated the new millennium an entire year too early?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the weapons of mass destruction that never existed?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the confidence and optimism of the 1920s, the 1990s, in WorldCom, Enron, the Dot-com frenzy, in the sub-prime-Bear-Stearns-Lehman Brothers-world banking system-real estate bubble?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember all the failed, never to come true predictions of every famed psychic, clairvoyant, telepath, prophet and prognosticator?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the low-fat diet, the high-fat diet, the grapefruit diet, low-carb diet, the Paleo diet, the alkaline diet, the raw diet, each one guaranteed to get you back in shape?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><u>fill-in-the-blank-with-your-favorite<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> deception and\/or mass madness belief?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Remember the recent waves of strongly emotionalized opinions circulating in the media?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #3e454c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Oh wait, it&#8217;s too soon to forget. Can&#8217;t remember what you haven&#8217;t forgotten. It takes years, sometimes decades, for the clouds of confusion to settle enough to see through the conflicting opinions, cherry-picked data, and absolute certainty of half-truths.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4662\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4662\" class=\"wp-image-4662 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses-1024x620.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses-1024x620.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses-300x182.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses-768x465.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses-1536x930.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Masses.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the masses<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we\u2019ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We\u2019re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It\u2019s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we\u2019ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014<\/span><\/span><cite><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Carl Sagan, <\/span><\/span><\/cite><cite><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else&#8217;s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014 Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_4663\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4663\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4663\" src=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media-1024x520.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media-1024x520.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media-768x390.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media-1536x780.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Remember-Media.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the media<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>imposed opinion &amp; conventional nescience Remember Galileo&#8217;s arrest for showing evidence to support the heliocentric theory of the solar system? Remember the witch hunts of Salem, during the Medieval; remember the Inquisition? Remember the promise of democracy, human rights and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/03\/remember\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[812,815,814,811,810,498,813],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discover","category-thoughts","tag-forgotten-history","tag-ignorance-of-the-crowds","tag-imposed-opinion","tag-mass-delusions","tag-mass-ignorance","tag-mass-madness","tag-popular-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbyodo.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}