{"id":2599,"date":"2002-07-07T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:50:32","slug":"damn-what-an-imagination-i%c2%92ve-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"DAMN, WHAT AN IMAGINATION I&#8217;VE GOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Says a character in John Brunner\u0092s great book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1857988361\/armedliberal-20\">&#8220;Stand on Zanzibar&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a book you ought to read, even if you don&#8217;t like SF.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key features in the book is the prevalence of &#8216;muckers&#8217; &#8211; individuals who just lose it in the face of whatever social\/population\/personal collapse they are facing, and decide to just kill whoever is at hand. Some of them go high-tech, and blow up bridges.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re there, and I&#8217;ll ask the question: where does madness end and organized terrorism begin?<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;ll bet that the LAX Limo Driver (I won&#8217;t immortalize his name) was on that cusp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says a character in John Brunner\u0092s great book &#8220;Stand on Zanzibar&#8221;. It&#8217;s a book you ought to read, even if you don&#8217;t like SF. One of the key features in the book is the prevalence of &#8216;muckers&#8217; &#8211; individuals who just lose it in the face of whatever social\/population\/personal collapse they are facing, and decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}