{"id":8247,"date":"2018-02-13T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2018-02-13T04:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:42:21","slug":"the-washington-post-is-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2018\/02\/13\/the-washington-post-is-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post is pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/media\/@caitlinjohnstone\/how-to-deprive-mainstream-media-of-revenue-and-get-around-their-paywalls\">\u201cHow To Deprive Mainstream Media Of Revenue And Get Around Their\u00a0Paywalls\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8250\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/120106wapofridayfront.jpg\" alt=\"px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1756\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8251\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stomach.jpg\" alt=\"stomach\" width=\"314\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This article opens with this great line&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>\u201cSome people use private browsing to watch porn. I use it to read the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>. And I probably feel a lot dirtier afterward.\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The author then explains how to get around firewalls walls and browse for free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But although the article is quite helpful, it fails to take head on the primary issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">The Washington Post is a form of pornography:<\/span> a cultural and intellectual form of pornography that allows the educated American who has the means to analyze the current developments in the country and engage in real political action to rather indulge in fantasies of being somehow engaged in thoughtful discourse on society, when he or she is rather trapped in the worst form of narcissism and consumerism. This intellectual porn encourages profound denial and renders the educated classes just powerless consumers who can do nothing but shop and satisfy their impulses. The cult of the self becomes the only form of political action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow To Deprive Mainstream Media Of Revenue And Get Around Their\u00a0Paywalls\u201d This article opens with this great line&#8221; \u201cSome people use private browsing to watch porn. I use it to read the\u00a0Washington Post. And I probably feel a lot dirtier afterward.\u201d The author then explains how to get around firewalls walls and browse for free. &#8230; <a title=\"The Washington Post is pornography\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2018\/02\/13\/the-washington-post-is-pornography\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Washington Post is pornography\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}