{"id":1853,"date":"2004-02-25T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/02\/echo-chamber-of-the-annointed\/"},"modified":"2004-02-25T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T21:07:39","slug":"echo-chamber-of-the-annointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/25\/echo-chamber-of-the-annointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo chamber of the annointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMike Sanders makes an interesting observation on <a title=\"Keep Trying\" href=\"http:\/\/keeptrying.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_keeptrying_archive.html#107773326994288859\">the Echo Chamber question:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that an Echo Chamber is a group that ignores other opinions to their own detriment. I keep on thinking that David&#8217;s defense of the EC is rooted in an idea from Arnold Kling&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentralstation.com\/020204A.html\">Downfall of the Annointed<\/a> post in which he pointed out that some feel that trying to change people&#8217;s minds is a waste of time. Instead they just rally their supporters and wait for those who disagree to see the light<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The essay he links is right on as well. Weinberger&#8217;s sticking to his guns on this issue, despite the fact that nobody agrees with him. <\/p>\n<p>How ironic.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Sanders makes an interesting observation on the Echo Chamber question: It seems to me that an Echo Chamber is a group that ignores other opinions to their own detriment. I keep on thinking that David&#8217;s defense of the EC is rooted in an idea from Arnold Kling&#8217;s Downfall of the Annointed post in which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/25\/echo-chamber-of-the-annointed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Echo chamber of the annointed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-tT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}