{"id":831,"date":"2008-03-29T01:44:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=831"},"modified":"2018-08-14T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T23:06:12","slug":"15956-%c2%a0-timothy-burke-blog-easily-distracted-competency-as-a-cultural-value%c2%a0-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"15956.&nbsp;(Timothy Burke) [blog Easily Distracted] Competency as a Cultural Value&nbsp;[article]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } \t\tA:link { color: #0000ff } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is an inter\u00adest\u00ading dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of the psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal real\u00adity of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics, and why Democ\u00adrats from a pro\u00adfes\u00adsional back\u00adground don\u2019t con\u00adnect with it. How\u00adever, it makes unwar\u00adranted assump\u00adtions about the ratio\u00adnal\u00adity and \u201cpro\u00adce\u00addural savvy\u201d of the social group the author sees him\u00adself as belong\u00ading to. In my expe\u00adri\u00adence, they have demon\u00adstrated exact\u00adly the same degree of sus\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adbil\u00adity to super\u00adsti\u00adtion, mag\u00adi\u00adcal think\u00ading, and irra\u00adtional mum\u00adbo-jum\u00adbo as any of the pro\u00adles that he con\u00adtrasts them to. You rarely see this kind of dis\u00adcus\u00adsion in Cana\u00adda. We real\u00adly do live in dif\u00adfer\u00adent worlds, now. It is a good arti\u00adcle, mak\u00ading some good obser\u00adva\u00adtions, despite the patron\u00adiz\u00ading tone, and the annoy\u00ading use of the sil\u00adly neol\u00ado\u00adgism \u201ccom\u00adpe\u00adtency\u201d in place of the Eng\u00adlish word \u201ccom\u00adpe\u00adtence\u201d. Avail\u00adable at Burke\u2019s blog <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=483\">Eas\u00adily Dis\u00adtracted<\/a><\/u><\/span>, or through <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/main\/\">Brad DeLong<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u2019s site..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an inter\u00adest\u00ading dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of the psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal real\u00adity of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics, and why Democ\u00adrats from a pro\u00adfes\u00adsional back\u00adground don\u2019t con\u00adnect with it. How\u00adever, it makes unwar\u00adranted assump\u00adtions about the ratio\u00adnal\u00adity and \u201cpro\u00adce\u00addural savvy\u201d of the social group the author&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=831\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}