{"id":913,"date":"2008-10-16T22:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/10\/16\/913\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:14:42","slug":"benevolent-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/benevolent-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Benevolent humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/max_westby\/104300017\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/19\/104300017_ef351a8efc_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/max_westby\/104300017\/\">1st outbreak of H5N1 in Europe &#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/max_westby\/\">Max xx<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Daniel Finkelstein wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/daniel_finkelstein\/article4944288.ece\">a good critique of Brown&#8217;s record<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his book The Black Swan, the financial analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb provides a useful analogy. In the months before Thanksgiving, turkeys begin to build up a theory about mankind. Man is benevolent. Every day he appears with more food, and the turkey is allowed to get fatter and fatter. And then, about a week before Thanksgiving, the turkey will, as Taleb puts it, \u201cincur a reversion of belief\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Our view of the Brown decade is like the turkey&#8217;s view of mankind, utterly destroyed by what has now happened. The stability was a trick of the light, the lengthy period of growth was fuelled by house prices and debt, the low interest rates (of which Brown is still, amazingly, boasting) were an error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do read the whole article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st outbreak of H5N1 in Europe &#8230; Originally uploaded by Max xx Daniel Finkelstein wrote a good critique of Brown&#8217;s record yesterday: In his book The Black Swan, the financial analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb provides a useful analogy. In the months before Thanksgiving, turkeys begin to build up a theory about mankind. Man is benevolent. Every day he appears with more food, and the turkey is allowed to get fatter and fatter. And then, about a week before Thanksgiving, the turkey will, as Taleb puts it, \u201cincur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}