{"id":6632,"date":"2021-09-22T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:53:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:53:25","slug":"terence-mckenna-the-mystery-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6632","title":{"rendered":"Terence McKenna: &#8216;The Mystery Of Language&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Terence McKenna - The Mystery Of Language\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijA5RHTJaV4?start=41257&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re creating a population of people who are infantile and idiotic, and yet we call ourselves a democracy. You only have to study democracy 10 minutes and you read John Stewart Mill to understand that the precondition for democracy is a sophisticated and educated citizenry. If you have &#8216;one person, one vote&#8217; but no educated citizenry, then you have a mob &#8212; a mob being led by various icons and images manipulated by fascists&#8221; \u009d                                                                         <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Terence McKenna  (38:30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re creating a population of people who are infantile and idiotic, and yet we call ourselves a democracy. You only have to study democracy 10 minutes and you read John Stewart Mill to understand that the precondition for democracy is a sophisticated and educated citizenry. If you have &#8216;one person, one vote&#8217; but no educated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}