{"id":5479,"date":"2011-03-25T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/25\/links-for-2011-03-25\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:30:36","slug":"links-for-2011-03-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/25\/links-for-2011-03-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/2011\/03\/24\/smaller-government-smaller-dreams-smaller-people\/\">Smaller government, smaller dreams, smaller people | slacktivist<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Consider this account of the rebuilding and re-engineering of Galveston. Consider the scope and audacity of the project &#8212; the cost, the labor, the years it took. Does any American city, or America itself, still have the courage, vision or capacity to attempt such a thing? I don&#8217;t know. I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>We seem to have become a small-minded people obsessed with smaller government, smaller visions, smaller aspirations &#8212; a crimped, cramped people from whom it seems unimaginable to expect or ask for this kind of hard work and investment and long-term foresight.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2011\/03\/wait-so-that-was-a-cult.html\">The Slacktiverse: Wait, so that was a cult?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;When I picked up the pink leaflet advertising a meditation class, I was reaching for something. I&#8217;d tried a bit of meditation from a book and it had given me some kind of peace for a few moments; being an identity-panicked teenager, the fact that alternative lifestyles were in fashion among my peers but that nobody had tried meditation was not an insignificant factor. But it wasn&#8217;t the casual interest of an experience seeker or a confident woman; it was the desperate grab of a girl who needed something and couldn&#8217;t think of anything else. Before I ever attended a class, I was committed.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t know at the time was that the leaflets weren&#8217;t left there by some visiting advertiser. The shop and the classes were run by the same organisation &#8211; the same organisation that ran cafes, a publisher, and numerous other &#8216;right livelhood&#8217; business with a turnover of several million pounds a year.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktiverse\">slacktiverse<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/highlander,53572\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">Highlander | Film | The New Cult Canon | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Cheesy? Plodding? Badly written? Laughably acted? Showily directed? Absolutely. A piece of shit? Not at all, because the film, however significant its flaws, delivers where it matters&#8211;in epic swordfights set against striking backdrops, in the outsized emotions (okay, bombast) suggested by the Queen soundtrack, and in the man-of-destiny sweep that&#8217;s been the lifeblood of modern fantasies from The Matrix to Harry Potter. It&#8217;s hard to speculate on this&#8211;and maybe you Highlander die-hards can help me out in the comments below&#8211;but I&#8217;d guess that cultists would concede that the movie they love is far short of perfect. But as a piece of fantasy, its sheer centuries-spanning grandiosity has few equals: Just the idea of Highlander carries it a great distance, no matter how shabbily that idea is supported.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nostalgia\">nostalgia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/sucker-punch,53611\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">Sucker Punch | Film | Movie Review | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Sucker Punch bears the unmistakable mark of hyper-auteur Zack Snyder, but it could just as easily have been willed into existence by the collective geekocracy. It&#8217;s as if the filmmakers took a poll at Comic-Con of all the elements attendees seek in a movie&#8211;starlets in skimpy outfits adept at hand-to-hand combat; Nazi robot monsters; elaborate fantasy worlds; a wise mentor figure who adopts many forms; cabaret-style covers of New Wave hits; and why not throw in Don Draper while you&#8217;re at it?&#8211;then combined them all in the ultimate fanboy mash-up. Snyder has described it as &#8220;Alice In Wonderland with machine guns,&#8221; but it&#8217;s more like The Pussycat Dolls Present Steampunk Kill Bill, only more assaultive and pandering than that description suggests.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smaller government, smaller dreams, smaller people | slacktivist &#8220;Consider this account of the rebuilding and re-engineering of Galveston. Consider the scope and audacity of the project &#8212; the cost, the labor, the years it took. Does any American city, or America itself, still have the courage, vision or capacity to attempt such a thing? I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/25\/links-for-2011-03-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-03-25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}