{"id":2581,"date":"2011-09-17T07:49:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2013-08-31T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T21:08:56","slug":"the-inner-circl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/the-inner-circl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inner Circle\/\/ The Mating Cry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From dear Mr John Wright:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The invitation to join the \u201cIn Crowd\u201d is always extended in terms that tell you that you are one of the chosen few, one of those capable of the \u201cgreat moral and intellectual effort\u201d needed to see things as they really are. It is the mating cry of Gnosticism&#8230;.<br \/>\nThose of you who notice the leitmotif of the modern age, it consists of stupid and wicked people telling us that they are smarter and more virtuous than us. Now you know why. The unearned spiritual, mental, and moral claim of superiority is the passkey that lets you join the \u2018In\u2019 crowd. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><em>from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiwright.com\/2011\/09\/almost-thou-persuadest-me-to-be-a-leftist\/#more-4032\">post <\/a>delivering a well-deserved thrashing to an anonymous racist illiterate crackpot<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From dear Mr John Wright: The invitation to join the \u201cIn Crowd\u201d is always extended in terms that tell you that you are one of the chosen few, one of those capable of the \u201cgreat moral and intellectual effort\u201d needed to see things as they really are. It is the mating cry of Gnosticism&#8230;. Those&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/the-inner-circl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Inner Circle\/\/ The Mating Cry&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8553],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","tag-john-c-wright","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}