{"id":2069,"date":"2003-06-08T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2003-06-08T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2003-06-08T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2003-06-08T16:46:52","slug":"on-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/on-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>When this man appears in public no one is sure it&#8217;s actually him, and yet he&#8217;s held an iron grip on power since 1979 &#8212; 24 years of brutal dictatorship, all while only maybe existing. The point is we can kill Saddam Hussein but we won&#8217;t win the war until we kill the idea of Saddam Hussein. So what we need to do is develop bombs that kill ideas.&#8221; &#8211; Steven Colbert, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/04\/20\/arts\/20RICH.html\">from NY Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When this man appears in public no one is sure it&#8217;s actually him, and yet he&#8217;s held an iron grip on power since 1979 &#8212; 24 years of brutal dictatorship, all while only maybe existing. The point is we can kill Saddam Hussein but we won&#8217;t win the war until we kill the idea of&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/on-ideas\/\">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":[6],"tags":[143,141,144,142,140],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-culture","tag-daily-show","tag-masses","tag-psychology","tag-saddam-hussein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-xn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","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=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}