{"id":202,"date":"2007-09-25T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2007-09-25T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:54:31","slug":"fear-is-a-force-multiplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Fear is a Force Multiplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cholera\">cholera<\/a> as the sign of a failing society in the 21st century.  We understand how to avoid it, and the requirements for doing so amount to basic sanitation.  It&#8217;s a big failing for us as a species that we continue to lose people to it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, cholera has returned to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/chlorine_and_ch.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> points to a post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericumansky.com\/2007\/09\/chlorine-and-ch.html\">Eric Urmansky<\/a> about how terrorism and our reaction to it is putting Iraq back into the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think of cholera as the sign of a failing society in the 21st century. We understand how to avoid it, and the requirements for doing so amount to basic sanitation. It&#8217;s a big failing for us as a species that we continue to lose people to it. Of course, cholera has returned to Iraq. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-stuff-i-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}