{"id":902,"date":"2013-03-13T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=902"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:20:34","slug":"aldous-huxley-modern-war-and-the-end-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/902\/quotes\/aldous-huxley-modern-war-and-the-end-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldous Huxley: modern war and the end of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<i>Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization<\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy &#8211;\u00a0Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/902\/quotes\/aldous-huxley-modern-war-and-the-end-of-democracy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37,220],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-harper-conservatives","tag-tyranny-of-the-modern-state","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}