{"id":1957,"date":"2016-09-14T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2016-09-14T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T05:24:31","slug":"the-roark-quirrell-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-roark-quirrell-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roark\u2013Quirrell Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education increases altruism up to a point (as you increasingly understand that other people are real too and have moral value for the same reasons you do even if you don't experience it from the first person), until you accumulate so many seemingly unique insights that the entire rest of the world looks <em>so abominably stupid<\/em> that you no longer want to waste a single precious dollar or minute on the concerns of these <em>creatures<\/em> that can't even see the Really Obvious Thing.<\/p>\n<p>(Or, maybe this is just a form of mental illness specific to high-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychoticism\">psychoticism<\/a> males that can be cured with the appropriate drugs. We'll find out!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education increases altruism up to a point (as you increasingly understand that other people are real too and have moral value for the same reasons you do even if you don't experience it from the first person), until you accumulate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-roark-quirrell-effect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}