{"id":201,"date":"2004-03-15T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=201"},"modified":"2004-03-15T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T20:16:43","slug":"the-most-dangerous-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingwolf.net\">Laughing Wolf<\/a> links to an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whotendsthefires.us\/mt\/archives\/000550.html\">article<\/a> looking at some aspects of current social policy in terms of predator\/prey dynamics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever the stated intentions of the social experiment are &#8211; and they&#8217;re always stated to be of the loftiest and noblest of goals &#8211; the observed effects are a bit different than avowed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>And there&#8217;s no longer the social environment that provides external reinforcement for what little internal civilizing factors seep through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[We are] breeding our own predators, in several varieties, from the lone hunters &#8211; the serial killer: equivalent to the big cats &#8211; to the pack hunters and the scavengers that feed off of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On this theme, I am often bemused by lamets about the worsening quality of education, and calls for new and improved methodologies.  If education is worse <i>now<\/i> than it was <i>then<\/i>, logically we should apply the methodologies in use then instead of trying yet more untried schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The principle applies in many areas, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laughing Wolf links to an interesting article looking at some aspects of current social policy in terms of predator\/prey dynamics: Whatever the stated intentions of the social experiment are &#8211; and they&#8217;re always stated to be of the loftiest and noblest of goals &#8211; the observed effects are a bit different than avowed. And there&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Most Dangerous Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}