I was having a discussion with a co-worker on the subject of revolution. I had watched a documentary yesterday on Stalin, and what he did to the Russian people, and I kept thinking “if only the people had been armed.”<\/p>\n
So, after talking a bit with him on the subject of revolution and whether we think it’s going to be happening soon (we suspect it is), we also got to talking about the outrage over taxes & constitutional rights violations, and why people don’t do<\/em> something about it. He then came up with a great line: “the cynicism of one generation begets the apathy of the next.<\/em>”<\/p>\n So true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “…The cynicism of one generation begets the apathy of the next.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-government","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/simUj-outrage","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":969,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/05\/remember-remember\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":0},"title":"Remember, Remember","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope I'm not the only one who quotes this one today.","rel":"","context":"In "society"","block_context":{"text":"society","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/society\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/14\/viva-la-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":1},"title":"Viva la Revolution!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Join the revolution... get Firefox, the Browser you can Trust (unlike IE).","rel":"","context":"In "tech"","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":796,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/09\/11\/no-i-havent-forgotten\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":2},"title":"No, I haven’t forgotten","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"No, I haven't forgotten what day today is, or what happened on this day 5 years ago. It's still a touchy subject with me, though. Traumatic memories don\u2019t become less traumatic with the passage of time \u2013 not for me, at least.","rel":"","context":"In "personal"","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":497,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/10\/real-id-act-status\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":3},"title":"REAL ID Act Status","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Aww crap, it passed. Seriously, folks, this has got to stop. If things keep going like this, we're either going to loose all personal liberties, or there's going to be a revolution.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":996,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/05\/the-right-to-read\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":4},"title":"The Right to Read","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I stumbled across this the other day - it's a sort of story about the future, or what it might be like, if we continue to allow both large corporations and the government dictate what we do with the information we buy. I came across it because I was reading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":964,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/04\/just-get-firefox-already-geez\/","url_meta":{"origin":559,"position":5},"title":"Just get Firefox already, geez!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My attempts to urge Internet Explorer users to upgrade to something better.","rel":"","context":"In "Rants"","block_context":{"text":"Rants","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/rants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}