{"id":20349,"date":"2025-10-27T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20349"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:44:28","slug":"clear-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20349","title":{"rendered":"Clear Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cEconomic self-interest is always a severe impediment to clear thinking on the moral and political aspects of an issue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Steele Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From An Empire of Wealth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Acting and thinking in ones own self-interest is the natural state. All we can hope for is that the differing interests of the various groups will over time balance each other. A democratic republic is the best way to accomplish this, but it is an ugly and time consuming process. “This to will change.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo is of one of the two small herds of “trespasser horses” in Canyon de Chelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEconomic self-interest is always a severe impediment to clear thinking on the moral and political aspects of an issue.\u201d John Steele Gordon From An Empire of Wealth Acting and thinking in ones own self-interest is the natural state. All we can hope for is that the differing interests of the various groups will over time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[91,260,311,314],"class_list":["post-20349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-travel","tag-animals","tag-horses","tag-politics","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3872.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20350,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions\/20350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}