{"id":677,"date":"2013-05-25T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=677"},"modified":"2013-05-25T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:33:39","slug":"on-permanence-and-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/25\/on-permanence-and-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"On Permanence and Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more I think about it, the more illusory both seem.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of in a pensive mood again after reading several Pilot stories, various tweets, seeing things on TV last couple of weeks&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Both political parties ultimately seek to conserve different unsustainable priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>**EDIT 1**<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do this sort of thing in my diary, too. \u00a0One of my acquaintances, being outraged, posted a story about the BorC execs being convicted during the plot that caused the bank to fail.<\/p>\n<p>As I said on Facebook, the real story won&#8217;t come out for awhile, because it doesn&#8217;t reinforce the city&#8217;s ruling party&#8217;s lines. \u00a0Yes, the bank execs are criminals. \u00a0Yes, so were a lot of others like them. \u00a0Yes, there were local, state, and Federal politicians and bureaucrats who made it all possible.<\/p>\n<p>But prosecuting the last group, even directing blame their way, doesn&#8217;t jibe with the ruling party&#8217;s line.<\/p>\n<p>If it makes me a bad person to say that, I&#8217;m okay with that.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve aged, I&#8217;ve come to find some of my preconceived notions weren&#8217;t wise. \u00a0If that makes me to be &#8220;not a team player,&#8221; oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I think about it, the more illusory both seem. Kind of in a pensive mood again after reading several Pilot stories, various tweets, seeing things on TV last couple of weeks&#8230;.. Both political parties ultimately seek to conserve different unsustainable priorities. &#8212;- **EDIT 1** Yes, I do this sort of thing in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}