{"id":1615,"date":"2005-09-28T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2005-09-28T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:13:47","slug":"1615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/1615\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Edge 169\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/documents\/archive\/edge169.html#taleb\">The Opiates of the Middle Class<\/a> &#8211; hopefully Google can stay objective and avoid leading people in biased ways, like the protagonist here: &#8220;He believes in the news media providing an accurate representation of the risks in the world. They don&#8217;t. By what I call the narrative fallacy, the media distorts our mental map of the world by feeding us what can be made into a story that can be squeezed into our minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opiates of the Middle Class &#8211; hopefully Google can stay objective and avoid leading people in biased ways, like the protagonist here: &#8220;He believes in the news media providing an accurate representation of the risks in the world. They don&#8217;t. By what I call the narrative fallacy, the media distorts our mental map of&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/1615\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-1615","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}