{"id":960,"date":"2018-03-31T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=960"},"modified":"2018-04-01T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T06:20:56","slug":"theater-of-the-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Theater of the Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Transcribing reality with meticulous care is enough to create the impression of extravagant irrationality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">\u2013Martin Esslin, <em>Theater of the Absurd<\/em>, p. 301<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why this quotation popped into my head this morning. I remember that forty years ago it was one of a number of pithy quotations I used to write on the blackboard of my high school in between classes.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished watching a zdf clip of\u00a0G\u00fcnter\u00a0Verheugen pointing out the UK has produced no evidence in the Skripal case, and I realized that his position will be seen as having some political component in its motivation. This reminded me of a year ago a Facebook &#8222;friend of a friend&#8220; telling me &#8222;if you believe that Putin is so pure, there&#8217;s nothing stopping you from moving to Russia&#8220; when I pointed out neither the US government nor the New York Times had offered any evidence in support of claims made about the provenance of the DNC e-mails released by WikiLeaks. Podesta and Schiff of course initially claimed some of the e-mails were forgeries, this proposition was dropped in the following months without the mainstream American press (or liberal Americans) seeming to notice or care.<\/p>\n<p>This month is the fifteenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, an invasion and on-going occupation very demonstrably based on lies for which no one has been jailed.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the proposition that arguments be based on evidence contentious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribing reality with meticulous care is enough to create the impression of extravagant irrationality. \u2013Martin Esslin, Theater of the Absurd, p. 301 I don&#8217;t know why this quotation popped into my head this morning. I remember that forty years ago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=960\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}