{"id":1011,"date":"2009-09-16T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2009-09-16T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:55:34","slug":"progressivism-as-fundamentalist-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Progressivism as fundamentalist religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some new evidence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/article\/2009-09\/being-green-makes-you-mean\">progressivism as a puritanical religious movement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When study participants were allowed to buy green products, they were more likely to cheat and lie in a subsequent task than those who chose among conventional products. (Apparently, it seems that they either consciously or unconsciously used the good deed to excuse for subsequent unethical behavior.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as avoiding drinking, swearing and playing cards lets you ignore bigger sins like racism or sexism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some new evidence of progressivism as a puritanical religious movement: When study participants were allowed to buy green products, they were more likely to cheat and lie in a subsequent task than those who chose among conventional products. (Apparently, it seems that they either consciously or unconsciously used the good deed to excuse for subsequent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Progressivism as fundamentalist religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-progressivism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}