{"id":3156,"date":"2016-10-08T22:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/One-of-the-reasons-I-look-with-suspicion-at-anyone-with-a-rigid-ideology-is-that-ideological-rigidity-tends-to"},"modified":"2016-10-08T22:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:41:45","slug":"one-of-the-reasons-i-look-with-suspicion-at-anyone-with-a-rigid-ideology-is-that-ideological-rigidity-tends-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/08\/one-of-the-reasons-i-look-with-suspicion-at-anyone-with-a-rigid-ideology-is-that-ideological-rigidity-tends-to\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the reasons I look with suspicion at anyone with a rigid ideology is that ideological rigidity tends to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>One of the reasons I look with suspicion at anyone with a rigid ideology is that ideological rigidity tends to exclude some pragmatic solutions which may help to achieve the things you actually value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decide what you want to achieve, and then use any ethical means to achieve that, regardless of its source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting article on how food banks, with their somewhat socialist mind-set, incorporated &#8220;market&#8221; forces to help them allocate food donations not only where they were needed but where they are wanted-most.  Apparently, so long as equity and generosity are factors in the general outline, market forces and even competition help to get resources to the right place, efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/09\/upshot\/sending-potatoes-to-idaho-how-the-free-market-helps-food-banks.html?ref=business\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/09\/upshot\/sending-potatoes-to-idaho-how-the-free-market-helps-food-banks.html?ref=business<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/09\/upshot\/sending-potatoes-to-idaho-how-the-free-market-helps-food-banks.html?ref=business<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        One of the reasons I look with suspicion at anyone with a rigid ideology is that ideological rigidity tends to&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/08\/one-of-the-reasons-i-look-with-suspicion-at-anyone-with-a-rigid-ideology-is-that-ideological-rigidity-tends-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}