{"id":25542,"date":"2015-12-06T00:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=25542"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T02:00:37","slug":"alien-in-an-alien-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/alien-in-an-alien-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien In An Alien Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2015\/12\/alien-in-alien-land.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/NoDivineRight.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>KentForLiberty.com<\/a> | On one hand, I have almost nothing in common with those around me. I can&#8217;t even relate to the fears that drive so much of their reactionary and statist behavior. And, even when I can relate to those fears, I see their response to be, well, insane- leading to more of the very things they fear.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, no one generally initiates force against me nor violates my property- except through &#8220;government&#8221;. People behave libertarian without even knowing what the word means or intending to.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the truly alien part of this culture is that they honestly can&#8217;t see that how they choose to live their personal lives is contradicted by how they choose to live their &#8220;political&#8221; lives. It goes beyond blinders. They can&#8217;t even see what they are doing to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m tired of being an alien. But other than being an example that might (might) inspire some change, I don&#8217;t know how to change it.<\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KentForLiberty.com | On one hand, I have almost nothing in common with those around me. I can&#8217;t even relate to the fears that drive so much of their reactionary and statist behavior. And, even when I can relate to those fears, I see their response to be, well, insane- leading to more of the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[1078,1410],"class_list":["post-25542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fear","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}