{"id":2705,"date":"2010-08-30T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2010-08-30T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:32:57","slug":"practical-definition-hubris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/practical-definition-hubris\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical definition:  Hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Obama-GOP-should-let-small-apf-4186021485.html?x=0&amp;sec=topStories&amp;pos=2&amp;asset=&amp;ccode=\">speech today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Every single day, I&#8217;m pushing this economy forward, repairing the  damage that&#8217;s been done to the middle class over the past decade and  promoting the growth we need to get out people back to work,&#8221; Obama said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No statement better reflects the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/presssite\/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=3637583\">fatal conceit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/ronaldreaganfarewelladdress.html\">with this<\/a>, from one of Hayek&#8217;s discliples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There were two great triumphs, two things that I&#8217;m proudest of.\u00a0 One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created &#8212; and filled &#8212; 19 million new jobs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good god, what a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a speech today: &#8220;Every single day, I&#8217;m pushing this economy forward, repairing the damage that&#8217;s been done to the middle class over the past decade and promoting the growth we need to get out people back to work,&#8221; Obama said. No statement better reflects the fatal conceit. Contrast with this, from one of Hayek&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectivist-instinct","category-patterns-without-intention","tag-yeah-that-was-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}