{"id":327,"date":"2009-10-09T04:53:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2009-10-09T05:02:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T09:02:28","slug":"the-state-is-the-central-abstraction-by-which-a-catastrophically-wrong-idea-is-placed-into-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The state is the central abstraction by which a catastrophically wrong idea is placed into practice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the organized system for employing violent action (or its threat) on the part of individuals, for as noted before, only individuals act. This rationalization occurs on two levels, first by diffusing responsibility to a fiction and second by inducing a group-think inversion of standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From David Calderwood&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/calderwood\/calderwood35.1.html\">article<\/a> at LewRockwell.com titled &#8220;A Demon in Need of Exorcism,&#8221; which concisely expresses <em>the <\/em>underlying premise of this here blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the organized system for employing violent action (or its threat) on the part of individuals, for as noted before, only individuals act. This rationalization occurs on two levels, first by diffusing responsibility to a fiction and second by inducing a group-think inversion of standards.&#8221; From David Calderwood&#8217;s article at LewRockwell.com titled &#8220;A Demon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}