{"id":5301,"date":"2011-01-30T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2011-01-30T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:44:16","slug":"the-worse-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-worse-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Worse the Better&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egypt.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egypt-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"egypt\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5302\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/258402\/worse-better-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted over at the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In a long and interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/alexmassie\/6657739\/how-do-you-say-alea-iacta-est-in-arabic.thtml\">post<\/a> over at the London <em>Spectator<\/em> Alex Massie thinks aloud over where the Egyptian revolution might be going. Agree or disagree, it\u2019s all worth reading, but this caught my eye: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the moment the protests and the grievances do not seem to show any support for turning Egypt into a religious state. Rather it\u2019s a matter of economics and opportunity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAny\u201d is too strong a word. Nevertheless while Alex is surely right that it is \u201ceconomics\u201d that are the underlying cause of the current uprising, that is no reason for those concerned about the rise of another Islamic republic to relax. History tells us that economic failure (compounded in this region by a massive increase in the population) can often open a door through which fanatics can come pouring in.  In 1917 Lenin\u2019s most effective slogan was \u201cpeace, land and bread\u201d. That whole dictatorship of the proletariat thing was for (a little) later\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted over at the Corner: In a long and interesting post over at the London Spectator Alex Massie thinks aloud over where the Egyptian revolution might be going. Agree or disagree, it\u2019s all worth reading, but this caught my eye: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-worse-the-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[704,705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5304,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}