{"id":2485,"date":"2021-07-17T18:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2021-07-19T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:41:53","slug":"seduction-gravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2021\/07\/17\/seduction-gravel\/","title":{"rendered":"Seduction Gravel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Gravel is dead<\/a>, and the world is poorer for it, but the tradition of truth-telling that he advanced pushes ahead.<\/p>\n

A few months ago, The Gravel Institute<\/a> released this vid:<\/p>\n

David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything<\/a><\/p>\n

The premise of the video is that if you live in America and have (inevitably) enter into a social contract with it, you’re getting ripped off in the deal, especially relative to the other deals made between citizens and governments elsewhere. <\/p>\n

The video is short and maybe even too short, but it’s enough to draw the general outline and easily prove its case. <\/p>\n

These are the nuts and bolts of what Sean Penn was talking about, when he said that the primary problem with America is spiritual. <\/p>\n

Take it from another angle:<\/p>\n

The power of seduction in our everyday lives<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a fluffy little TED talk by a pretty woman who is self-consciously leveraging her beauty for a bit of fame. There’s nothing offensive about it, but you would never know that from the puritanical screeching in the comments section.<\/p>\n

Strange as it seems, I don’t think Americans like sex, and are wary to a paranoid level of anything pleasurable or joyful. The speaker’s comparative reference is to how people interact in Cuba, people we should be bombing now according to the mayor or Miami.<\/p>\n

My country ’tis of thee, land of in-sanity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Gravel is dead, and the world is poorer for it, but the tradition of truth-telling that he advanced pushes ahead. A few months ago, The Gravel Institute released this vid: David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything The premise of the video is that if you live in America and have (inevitably) enter into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}