{"id":31334,"date":"2023-08-28T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T12:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31334"},"modified":"2023-08-28T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:29:04","slug":"from-the-durant-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/from-the-durant-5\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Our Oriental Heritage<\/em>, page 450, on the end of the line of Ashoka:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I highlighted this because the Durant espouses Socialist ideas throughout, but here the Durant explains why socialism and communism and other authoritarian systems fail.<\/p>\n<p>But in a couple of pages, no doubt, the Durant will again lament how an enlightened leader redistributed land\/wealth but how his minister, progeny, or an amalgamation became corrupt and the idyll collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a couple of <em>From the Durant<\/em> posts ago <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/24\/from-the-durant-3\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I said<\/a> old school pulp writers mined history for story ideas.  Apparently, modern pop culture makers mine history for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahsoka_Tano\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">names alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Our Oriental Heritage, page 450, on the end of the line of Ashoka: States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men. I highlighted this because the Durant espouses Socialist ideas throughout, but here the Durant explains why socialism and communism and other authoritarian systems fail. But in a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-durant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31378,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions\/31378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}