{"id":3524,"date":"2012-09-28T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2012-09-28T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:36:30","slug":"insightful-observations-on-our-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3524","title":{"rendered":"Insightful Observations on our Modern World"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.\u00a0 But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. &#8211; Alan Gregg<\/li>\n<li>The three horrors of modern life &#8211; talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. &#8211; Mignon McLaughlin<\/li>\n<li>The secret to living contently and sanely in this modern world is to&#8230; find the beautiful in the ugly &#8211; but don&#8217;t get confused which is which. &#8211; Terri Guillemets<\/li>\n<li>I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. &#8211; Reuben Blades<\/li>\n<li>Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive.\u00a0 Half the time he&#8217;s happy, the other half he&#8217;s right. &#8211; Robert Brault<\/li>\n<li>The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. &#8211; Omar Bradley<\/li>\n<li>One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal.\u00a0 Soon we&#8217;ll need a new definition. &#8211; Alvin Toffler<\/li>\n<li>Death is losing its terror.\u00a0 It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. &#8211; Julian Green<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t make up anything anymore.\u00a0 The world itself is a satire.\u00a0 All you&#8217;re doing is recording it. &#8211; Art Buchwald<\/li>\n<li>The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you&#8217;re still a rat. &#8211; Lily Tomlin<\/li>\n<li>Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. &#8211; Robert C. Savage<\/li>\n<li>Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I&#8217;m awaiting virtuous reality. &#8211; Eli Khamarov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.\u00a0 But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. &#8211; Alan Gregg The three horrors of modern life &#8211; talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. &#8211; Mignon McLaughlin The secret&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}