{"id":15183,"date":"2012-05-23T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:34:08","slug":"giving-up-on-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/giving-up-on-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving up on politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/blog\/media-culture\/dalai-oliver\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Boucek<\/a> at the Adam Smith Institute blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What with the ongoing eurozone crisis, G8 summits and NATO confabs, politicians from around the world continue to dominate the headlines &mdash; but things don\u2019t seem to be getting any better. Amid all that hot air, though, were a couple of nice pearls of wisdom in the past week. Both suggested salvation from beyond the world of politics.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on the occasion of his receipt of the Templeton prize, the Dalai Lama blamed last summer\u2019s riots on young people \u201cbeing brought up to believe that life was just easy. Life is not easy. If you take for granted that life will be easy, then anger develops, frustration and riots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Politicians spend a lot of time promising to make life easy, alleviate risk and absolve individuals from the consequences of their behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a BBC interview prompted by the government\u2019s scrapping of nutritional regulations for school lunches, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver said \u201cI\u2019ve given up on politics. My focus for the next 15 years is business and people. That is where the hope is. Governments are too short term. They\u2019re too transient\u2026 They really don\u2019t understand. There\u2019s a political agenda but when you make these changes there\u2019s very physical things that happen that they know nothing about which is very dangerous.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post from Jan Boucek at the Adam Smith Institute blog: What with the ongoing eurozone crisis, G8 summits and NATO confabs, politicians from around the world continue to dominate the headlines &mdash; but things don\u2019t seem to be getting any better. Amid all that hot air, though, were a couple of nice pearls of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[28,53],"tags":[337,220,213,720,101],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-eu","tag-nato","tag-newspapers","tag-protest","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3WT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}