{"id":28096,"date":"2013-09-25T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28096"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:00:35","slug":"serpent-logics-simple-incongruities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28096","title":{"rendered":"Serpent logics: simple incongruities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; religious law enforcement, therapy incarcerated, and a quick blast of Johnny Cash ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prison-group-therapy-in-cages.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prison-group-therapy-in-cages.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"prison group therapy in cages\" width=\"602\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prison-group-therapy-in-cages.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prison-group-therapy-in-cages-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>As you know, I collect instances of various patterns I see recurring in my twitterstream and elsewhere &#8212; here, I&#8217;d like to introduce a new pattern that I&#8217;ll simply call &#8220;simple incongruities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My first example, which I ran across several days ago, was this one from Saudi Arabia:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Apparently, &quot;religious police chase&quot; is a thing in Saudi Arabia. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/96cW0AnqDZ\">http:\/\/t.co\/96cW0AnqDZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Mathews (@timmathews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timmathews\/statuses\/382462546973700096\">September 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the [Lebanese] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2013\/Sep-24\/232395-saudi-killed-in-religious-police-chase-report.ashx#ixzz2fv6kiz62\">Daily Star news report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Saudi motorist died and a passenger was injured on Tuesday when a religious police vehicle crashed into their car during a hot pursuit in Riyadh, a newspaper reported. A patrol of the notorious police, known unofficially as Mutawaa, chased two young men travelling in a sedan before crashing into their vehicle, forcing it off an overpass and onto a lower-level road, Al-Hayat daily said. The patrol vehicle fled the scene instantly, the daily said. &#8220;We pray to Allah to forgive the dead,&#8221; said Mohammed al-Shraimi, assistant spokesman of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the official name of the Mutawaa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my second example &#8212; from nearer home &#8212; which I only ran across today that inspired me to make a separate post about these incongruities.  The image of caged prisoners in a group therapy session at <strong>San Quentin<\/strong> (see above) was just too remarkable for me to pass over.  The tweet that brought it to my attention is below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Astonishing picture of a group therapy session in a California prison; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/pirlQYqHG4\">http:\/\/t.co\/pirlQYqHG4<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Olivia Solon (@olivia_solon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olivia_solon\/statuses\/382791042224750593\">September 25, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a comment from <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong> &#8212; to give you added San Quentin context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1zgja26eNeY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1zgja26eNeY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; religious law enforcement, therapy incarcerated, and a quick blast of Johnny Cash ] . ** As you know, I collect instances of various patterns I see recurring in my twitterstream and elsewhere &#8212; here, I&#8217;d like to introduce a new pattern that I&#8217;ll simply call &#8220;simple incongruities&#8221;. My first example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,859,790,480,626,786,381,393,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-form","category-law-enforcement","category-music","category-patterns","category-saudi-arabia","category-society","category-twitter","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28096"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28114,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions\/28114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}