{"id":7901,"date":"2023-12-12T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:44:26","slug":"the-telephone-company-is-not-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=7901","title":{"rendered":"the telephone company is not your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was an idea in the Gurdjieff books that everything turns into the opposite direction of how it originally faced. Over time I notice resonant examples. Comes to mind today as I read the various criticisms of authoritarianism surrounding diversity and equity. It is like the story of the guy who loved music and opened a music store but then instead of sharing his love of music concentrated on pushing popular music because it paid the rent and kept silent about his tastes which was why originally he opened the store. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an idea in the Gurdjieff books that everything turns into the opposite direction of how it originally faced. Over time I notice resonant examples. Comes to mind today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=7901\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}