{"id":55419,"date":"2017-09-15T06:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=55419"},"modified":"2017-09-15T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:58:07","slug":"objectivism-and-eugenics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=55419","title":{"rendered":"Objectivism and eugenics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events remind us the mass of humanity make sheep and frogs look pretty smart. (Frogs jump out of boiling water, humans seem to cook.)<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian &#8220;market&#8221; solutions to things like Equifax require an informed and intelligent actor. Obviously humans don&#8217;t qualify.<\/p>\n<p>So then how is this supposed to work? Only the elites survive?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that is how it worked out in Rand&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p>So libertarianism is effectively a kind of eugenics program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events remind us the mass of humanity make sheep and frogs look pretty smart. (Frogs jump out of boiling water, humans seem to cook.) Libertarian &#8220;market&#8221; solutions to things like Equifax require an informed and intelligent actor. Obviously humans &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=55419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55420,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions\/55420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}