{"id":42923,"date":"2025-09-10T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42923"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:21:25","slug":"on-the-precipice-of-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/10\/on-the-precipice-of-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Precipice Of Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-09-10-25?t=1757553045857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assassination<\/a> of Charlie Kirk puts us on a precipice, I think. People think they&#8217;re justified in killing people with whom they disagree, and that endangers a political system that has produced the finest military ever.<\/p>\n<p>Intolerant, arrogant assholes on both sides are trying to tear us down because of their firm belief that they&#8217;re the smart ones, or a silent God is on their side.<\/p>\n<p>I did not pay attention to Mr Kirk, so I have no opinion, but, just like State Senator Hortman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/11\/that-disintegrating-phase-errr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assassination<\/a>, Kirk represents another step in the <em>Structural-Demographic Theory&#8217;s<\/em> disintegrative phase (same link), as arrogance and impatience with divergent opinions leads to fatal conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Turchin&#8217;s work suggests that in rural societies it takes about fifty years for the adamant to realize that civil war is not a fake war, but leads to horrible deaths and a weakening of the country. Will that hold true for our technological society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The assassination of Charlie Kirk puts us on a precipice, I think. People think they&#8217;re justified in killing people with whom they disagree, and that endangers a political system that has produced the finest military ever. Intolerant, arrogant assholes on both sides are trying to tear us down because of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/10\/on-the-precipice-of-stupid\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42924,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923\/revisions\/42924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}