{"id":1482,"date":"2011-10-21T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2011-10-21T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T09:04:18","slug":"victory-or-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/victory-or-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory! Or shame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaddafi is gone.\u00a0 That&#8217;s good.\u00a0 And right.<\/p>\n<p>Gaddafi is dead. Maybe that&#8217;s not right.\u00a0 Almost inevitable in this world.\u00a0 But it was not the best we could have done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-12527685\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2011\/gaddafi.jpg?resize=144%2C81\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>The evidence streamed around the world of a battered, bloodied old man, interspersed with rejoicing is an embarrassing show of primitive instinct.\u00a0 All male.\u00a0 Guns.\u00a0 Blood.\u00a0 This is not the right way for this species, which has guns and blood.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.\u00a0 Maybe we&#8217;ll do better next time. From the beginning.\u00a0 Dictators are not right.\u00a0 They grow out of global compacency. permissiveness, corruption.\u00a0 If it is in our own back yard, it hurts.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s in someone else&#8217;s it&#8217;s good viewing.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not good enough.\u00a0 The outpouring of joyous vindication shows the pain and injustice that these people have lived with for so long.\u00a0 So much.\u00a0 So long.\u00a0 Can we not feel the pain of oppression of the masses.\u00a0 We can stand with the liberated Libya, bt not take pride in our role.\u00a0 Too little.\u00a0 Too late.\u00a0 Our shame.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s the dictator in your life?<\/p>\n<p>Pray for peace.\u00a0 Believe in compassion.\u00a0 Share.\u00a0 Love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaddafi is gone.\u00a0 That&#8217;s good.\u00a0 And right. Gaddafi is dead. Maybe that&#8217;s not right.\u00a0 Almost inevitable in this world.\u00a0 But it was not the best we could have done. The evidence streamed around the world of a battered, bloodied old man, interspersed with rejoicing is an embarrassing show of primitive instinct.\u00a0 All male.\u00a0 Guns.\u00a0 Blood.\u00a0 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/victory-or-shame\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victory! Or shame?<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspective","category-holonics","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-nU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}