{"id":2258,"date":"2013-01-24T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2013-01-24T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:24:25","slug":"books-movies-show-a-world-filled-with-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/books-movies-show-a-world-filled-with-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Books &#038; movies show a world filled with idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Brin, author of books such as <strong>Startide Rising<\/strong> and <strong>Earth<\/strong>,\u00a0has a\u00a0thought-provoking article on Locus Online. It&#8217;s about why books and movies have most of their characters behaving as fools. One of his great points: &#8220;you never notice propaganda that you already agree with.&#8221; He argues that fictional worlds should be more like the real world, where most governments and institutions work well most of the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Perspectives\/2013\/01\/david-brin-our-favorite-cliche-a-world-filled-with-idiots-orwhy-films-and-novels-routinely-depict-society-and-its-citizens-as-fools\/\">David Brin: Our Favorite Clich\u00e9 \u2014 <em>A World Filled With Idiots\u2026<\/em>, or, Why Films and Novels Routinely Depict Society and its Citizens as Fools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brin, author of books such as Startide Rising and Earth,\u00a0has a\u00a0thought-provoking article on Locus Online. It&#8217;s about why books and movies have most of their characters behaving as fools. One of his great points: &#8220;you never notice propaganda that you already agree with.&#8221; He argues that fictional worlds should be more like the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-book","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}