{"id":2161,"date":"2020-12-06T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/06\/psychic\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T07:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T07:10:27","slug":"psychic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/06\/psychic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cthere is a psychic war being stoked\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emotional &#8211; and quite frightening &#8211; piece by Hardeep Matharu on the threat of fascism and a need to innoculate ourselves agaist a virus of hatred:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>In a digitised information age, there is a psychic war being stoked, and raging, within ourselves; a \u2018soft\u2019 fascism being nudged into our hearts and minds \u2013 at the hands of social media companies, corporations and rogue actors intent on weaponising people\u2019s worst instincts \u2013 and their most human of vulnerabilities \u2013 for personal and partisan gain.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2020\/12\/01\/the-powerful-lure-of-the-soft-fascism-within\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Powerful Lure of the Soft Fascism Within<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional &#8211; and quite frightening &#8211; piece by Hardeep Matharu on the threat of fascism and a need to innoculate ourselves agaist a virus of hatred: \u201cIn a digitised information age, there is a psychic war being stoked, and raging, within ourselves; a \u2018soft\u2019 fascism being nudged into our hearts and minds \u2013 at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}