{"id":1199,"date":"2009-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/03\/23\/1137\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:00:00","slug":"1137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/03\/23\/1137\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies We Tell Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/lies.html\">Lies We Tell Kids<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Whenever we lie to kids to protect them, we&#8217;re usually also lying to keep the peace.<\/p>\n<p>One consequence of this sort of calming lie is that we grow up thinking horrible things are normal. It&#8217;s hard for us to feel a sense of urgency as adults over something we&#8217;ve literally been trained not to worry about. When I was about 10 I saw a documentary on pollution that put me into a panic. It seemed the planet was being irretrievably ruined. I went to my mother afterward to ask if this was so. I don&#8217;t remember what she said, but she made me feel better, so I stopped worrying about it.<\/p>\n<p>That was probably the best way to handle a frightened 10 year old. But we should understand the price. This sort of lie is one of the main reasons bad things persist: we&#8217;re all trained to ignore them.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham \u2013 Lies We Tell Kids: &#8222;Whenever we lie to kids to protect them, we&#8217;re usually also lying to keep the peace. One consequence of this sort of calming lie is that we grow up thinking horrible things are normal. It&#8217;s hard for us to feel a sense of urgency as adults over something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}