{"id":11519,"date":"2013-05-10T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2013-06-26T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T04:53:07","slug":"2686-starks-system-of-government-was-based-on-mistrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=11519","title":{"rendered":"[2686] Stark&#8217;s system of government was based on mistrust"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Stark&#8217;s system of government was based on mistrust. He looked for laziness, insubordination, drunkenness, and strife; he pretended to suppress them, and only succeeded in creating the further vices of cunning, deceit, and ill-will. Too many laws and regulations stifle the sense of good and evil. No one looks beyond his own personal interest; and nothing matters except the evasion of punishment: The plantation was an overgoverned state, as are all the European States of today; and the men were an army of demoralised by discipline. [Henri Fauconnier. <em>The Soul of Malaya<\/em>. Chapter 1. 1931]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stark&#8217;s system of government was based on mistrust. He looked for laziness, insubordination, drunkenness, and strife; he pretended to suppress them, and only succeeded in creating the further vices of cunning, deceit, and ill-will. Too many laws and regulations stifle the sense of good and evil. No one looks beyond his own personal interest; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[1614,1615],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-printed-materials","category-society","tag-henri-fauconnier","tag-the-soul-of-malaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11521,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions\/11521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}