{"id":10634,"date":"2018-10-26T03:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2018-10-26T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:09:19","slug":"a-damning-indictment-of-contemporary-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/10\/a-damning-indictment-of-contemporary-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A damning indictment of contemporary life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to rewrite a text I have seen initially at <a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/originals\/originality-dead-long-live-instagram-297521\">fstoppers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his book <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson\/dp\/0143122061?tag=fstoppers-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civilization<\/a>, Niall Ferguson wrote a damning indictment of contemporary life. It&#8217;s a paradox, he suggests, &#8220;that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenising humanity.&#8221; Never before in human history have so many people worked so hard to establish themselves as top scientists through exactly the same means: using near-identical technology, writing the same grant applications and producing as many mediocre papers as possible.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bo3BHvZFWpe\/?taken-by=insta_repeat<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 30.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to rewrite a text I have seen initially at fstoppers.com. In his book Civilization, Niall Ferguson wrote a damning indictment of contemporary life. It&#8217;s a paradox, he suggests, &#8220;that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenising humanity.&#8221; Never before in human history have so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/10\/a-damning-indictment-of-contemporary-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A damning indictment of contemporary life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10637,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions\/10637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}