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{"id":1690,"date":"2015-05-25T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/?page_id=1690"},"modified":"2015-05-25T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T01:34:32","slug":"tyrants-and-the-gullible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/tyrants-and-the-gullible\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrants and the Gullible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">TYRANTS AND THE GULLIBLE<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0People forfeit their freedom and sovereignty, and their responsibility to themselves and others when they permit authoritarian powers to make decisions for them. \u00a0 \u00a0An authority is any individual or group or agency that is allowed to create mental-sets, opinions, perspectives, or emotions in the person or group that has allowed that authority to rise to power. \u00a0 Parents, teachers, preachers, government officials, religions, superstitions, gods, cultures, dogmas, or any idea from these or about these which carries more power for the individual than his own clear thinking and reason has been put into authority by that individual.\u00a0 \u00a0In some cultures and in some governments or societies the individual is now less important than the society. \u00a0 Yet the society should exist only for the benefit of individuals, not the other way around. \u00a0 \u00a0Gullible individuals are manipulated by subterfuge and their individuality is overshadowed by the powers of governments and hierarchies. \u00a0 Until people understand and awaken they will continue to allow themselves to be the (willing) victims of coercion, fraud, and swindling subterfuges, and the manipulators will continue to pillage and plunder them. \u00a0 When the modus operandi of the tyrants is known, the structural patterns of these dark forces and their oppressor agents will dwindle and vanish, while the rights of individuals to pursue their own happiness will be re-established.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>next click <a title=\"Noble and Ignoble\" href=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/noble-and-ignoble\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/68-DSCI1679-002-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1686\" src=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/68-DSCI1679-002-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tyrants\" width=\"615\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/68-DSCI1679-002-2.jpg 615w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/68-DSCI1679-002-2-115x150.jpg 115w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/68-DSCI1679-002-2-385x501.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYRANTS AND THE GULLIBLE \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0People forfeit their freedom and sovereignty, and their responsibility to themselves and others when they permit authoritarian powers to make decisions for them. \u00a0 \u00a0An authority is any individual or group or agency that is allowed to create mental-sets, opinions, perspectives, or emotions in the person or group that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/tyrants-and-the-gullible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyrants and the Gullible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1295,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1690","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1690\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}