{"id":35846,"date":"2026-11-15T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35846"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:19:20","slug":"from-the-durant-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/15\/from-the-durant-18\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Life of Greece<\/em>, p596:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lesson of Ptolemaic socialism is that even a government may exploit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, poor Durant.  The lesson of any socialism, even that which he espouses, is that the government will exploit.  The government is not an organism in and of itself.  It is a bunch of people who will seek to improve their positions as their primary goal.  No matter what Deweyesque or Platonic systems of sorting and education say on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life of Greece, p596: The lesson of Ptolemaic socialism is that even a government may exploit. Ah, poor Durant. The lesson of any socialism, even that which he espouses, is that the government will exploit. The government is not an organism in and of itself. It is a bunch of people who will seek [&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-35846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-durant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35846","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=35846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35849,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35846\/revisions\/35849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}