{"id":13071,"date":"2020-02-10T05:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13071"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:24:03","slug":"why-is-it-the-case-that-stuff-thats-hailed-as-smart-tends-to-be-a-sophisticated-defense-of-the-exisiting-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/10\/why-is-it-the-case-that-stuff-thats-hailed-as-smart-tends-to-be-a-sophisticated-defense-of-the-exisiting-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it the case that stuff that&#8217;s hailed as &#8220;smart&#8221; tends to be a sophisticated defense of the exisiting order?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200210_0418422.jpg\" alt=\"Why is it the case that stuff that's hailed as &quot;smart&quot; tends to be a sophisticated defense of the exisiting order?\" class=\"wp-image-13044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200210_0418422.jpg 523w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200210_0418422-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><figcaption>Why is it the case that stuff that&#8217;s hailed as &#8220;smart&#8221; tends to be a sophisticated defense of the exisiting order?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nSome people benefit from the existing order, and are apt to celebrate those who defend it. Plenty of smart thinking is against the grain, though: Freud, Einstein, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King. We think of them as &#8220;the order&#8221; now, but they took a whole lot of flak for their disruptive ideas. In fact some (especially King) are misremembered as defending an order, when most of what he said &amp; wrote criticized it.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people benefit from the existing order, and are apt to celebrate those who defend it. Plenty of smart thinking is against the grain, though: Freud, Einstein, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King. We think of them as &#8220;the order&#8221; now, but they took a whole lot of flak for their disruptive ideas. In fact some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/10\/why-is-it-the-case-that-stuff-thats-hailed-as-smart-tends-to-be-a-sophisticated-defense-of-the-exisiting-order\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is it the case that stuff that&#8217;s hailed as &#8220;smart&#8221; tends to be a sophisticated defense of the exisiting order?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}