{"id":58359,"date":"2023-10-23T00:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T05:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58359"},"modified":"2023-10-23T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T06:04:18","slug":"58359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58359","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Middle class America is no less violent than any other people.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They seem passive because they&#8217;re results oriented. They rise not out of blood frenzy but to solve the otherwise insoluble.<br \/>\nTheir methods of choice are good will, cooperation, forbearance, negotiation and finally, appeasement, roughly in that order.<br \/>\nOnly when these fail to end the abuse do they revert to blowback. And they do so irretrievably.<br \/>\nOnce the course is set and the outcome defined, doubt is put aside.<br \/>\nThe middle class is known, condemned actually, for carrying out violence with the efficiency of an industrial project where bloody destruction at any scale is not only in play, it&#8217;s a metric.<br \/>\nRemorse is left for the next generation, they&#8217;ll have the leisure for it.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d like to believe this is merely dark speculation. History says it isn&#8217;t.<\/em><br \/>\n-&#8216;ol Remus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle class America is no less violent than any other people. They seem passive because they&#8217;re results oriented. They rise not out of blood frenzy but to solve the otherwise insoluble. Their methods of choice are good will, cooperation, forbearance, negotiation and finally, appeasement, roughly in that order. Only when these fail to end the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97093,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58359\/revisions\/97093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}