{"id":712,"date":"2008-06-13T20:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T03:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/the-natural-state-of-mankind\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T03:47:18","slug":"the-natural-state-of-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/the-natural-state-of-mankind\/","title":{"rendered":"the natural state of mankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p6156924.jpg\" title=\"Happy Father\u2019s Day\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p6156924.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Father\u2019s Day\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p6166929-copy.gif\" title=\"June 16, 2008 Sunset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p6166929-copy.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"June 16, 2008 Sunset\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every     man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time,     wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength,     and their own invention shall furnish them withall.  In such condition,     there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain;     and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use     of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious     Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things     as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth;     no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is     worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death;     And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short [and colorful].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651.<\/p>\n<p>The no-growth crowd may love their mythological state of nature, but all that proves is they&#8217;ve never lived in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-country-life","7":"category-planning","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}