{"id":2649,"date":"2016-03-27T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:46:23","slug":"egalite-mediocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2016\/03\/27\/egalite-mediocrite\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9galit\u00e9, m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced equality is a path to mediocrity not a path to freedom.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Forcing people to fit into the bed of<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Procrustes\" title=\"Procrustes\" target=\"_blank\"> Procrustes<\/a> is not just unfair, it harms the entire society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>While most people would find wearing handicaps in the manner of the members of the <em>Church of God the Utterly Indifferent<\/em> in Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sirens_of_Titan\" title=\"The Sirens of Titan\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sirens of Titan<\/em><\/a> bizarre, lesser forms are often celebrated as if they were some form of social justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody should be allowed to live up to their full potential, even if that makes others look bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced equality is a path to mediocrity not a path to freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}