{"id":190,"date":"2006-02-08T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-02-08T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T10:56:37","slug":"the-new-dark-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"The New Dark Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at this blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kn.com.au\/networks\/2006\/02\/the_cartoon_war.html#comment-13746712\">The Cartoon War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I agree with his &#8220;cynical assumption&#8221;, I believe this has been orchestrated, and if Muslim&#8217;s are feeling increasingly beleaguered, they should get in line. <\/p>\n<p>The greater mass of the general population is increasingly isolated from the functioning of their own governments. Control of events has long since been passed into a very few hands. Partly into the corporate multi-nationals and the ruling elite and partly into their religious proxies in the extremes of both the Muslim an Christian fundamentalist.<\/p>\n<p>The tools are simple, fear and righteousness. Blind obedience, the only condition for membership in the crusade.<\/p>\n<p>But I also believe that while the cartoons were gratuitously inflammatory, you won&#8217;t see embassies burnt when the Muslims print holocaust cartoons (which is historic, and not religious). Nor have they when other cartoons printed in Muslims papers deplicting Jews and Christians in an unflattering way have been printed. <\/p>\n<p>We are entering into another dark age where religions rule the minds of the public. And we are ruled by a democratic mob.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at this blog post The Cartoon War I agree with his &#8220;cynical assumption&#8221;, I believe this has been orchestrated, and if Muslim&#8217;s are feeling increasingly beleaguered, they should get in line. The greater mass of the general population is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=190\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Dark Age<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,4,8,15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracies","category-freedom","category-history","category-politics","category-religion","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}