{"id":10805,"date":"2016-02-21T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-control-the-world-basically-because-we-are-the\/"},"modified":"2016-02-21T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:53:51","slug":"we-control-the-world-basically-because-we-are-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-control-the-world-basically-because-we-are-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate \ufb02exibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always \ufb01nd that it is based on some \ufb01ction like the nation, like money, like human rights. These are all things that do not exist objectively, but they exist only in the stories that we tell and that we spread around. This is something very unique to us, perhaps the most unique feature of our species.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p class=\"rootytoot\">Yuval Harari, <i>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/i><\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/stoweboyd.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">stoweboyd<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>metaphors we live by<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate \ufb02exibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always \ufb01nd that it is based on some \ufb01ction like the nation, like money, like human rights. These are all things that do not exist objectively, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}