{"id":1711,"date":"2010-11-25T07:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2010-11-25T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T15:49:29","slug":"gods-jackboots-coda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Gods, Jackboots:  Coda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m holding off \u2014\u00a0for the moment \u2014\u00a0on commenting about last week&#8217;s inaugural SFContario, which had much to commend it but which also contained one big gnarly injustice that might just overshadow all those good elements. \u00a0Not entirely comfortable with the fact that the concomm is stonestalling<sup>1<\/sup> on even addressing that issue, for reasons which I find unconvincing. \u00a0Still pondering.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have time for a lengthy analysis anyway, since I&#8217;m about to leave town to try and convince an aged and infirm relative that he might get a kick out of &#8220;Eraserhead&#8221; even though &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; was too dark for his tastes. \u00a0So instead, a brief corroborative follow-up to one of the central points of my talk at the SpecFic Colloquium a couple of weeks back (if you didn&#8217;t see it, and don&#8217;t want to go check the archives for the relevant<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=184\"> &#8216;crawl posting<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0the thumbnail is that human brains are more likely to see patterns in random noise when stressed. \u00a0Which explains both why religious belief correlates so strongly with shitty living conditions, and why inner happiness correlates with religious belief. \u00a0Hence why inner happiness correlates with shitty living conditions). \u00a0The headline in today&#8217;s New York Times says it all:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/25\/nyregion\/25nychaiti.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=a2\">Suffering, Haitians Turn to Charismatic Prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Happy Thanksgiving, fellow invaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><sup>1<\/sup>Yes, I made that up. \u00a0We authors get to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m holding off \u2014\u00a0for the moment \u2014\u00a0on commenting about last week&#8217;s inaugural SFContario, which had much to commend it but which also contained one big gnarly injustice that might just overshadow all those good elements. \u00a0Not entirely comfortable with the fact that the concomm is stonestalling1 on even addressing that issue, for reasons which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ass-hamsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}