{"id":52607,"date":"2016-09-30T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52607"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:21:02","slug":"when-are-look-alikes-alike-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52607","title":{"rendered":"When are look-alikes alike, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a questiom for Cath Styles and Emily Steiner ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my proposal here that <strong>look-alikes are in the eyes of the beholder<\/strong>, perhaps more so than other forms of likeness.<\/p>\n<p>Consider:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">19th century Firefighters looked like Darth Vader and C3PO. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lmkC3bFi08\">pic.twitter.com\/lmkC3bFi08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; History in Moments (@historyinmoment) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historyinmoment\/status\/781724807805165572\">September 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do they look like <strong>Darth Vade<\/strong>r and <strong>C3PO<\/strong> to you, frankly &#8212; or more like each other?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>One really does have to wonder how medieval monastics got hold of copies of Winnie the Pooh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/honey-bear-02-600.png\" alt=\"honey-bear-02-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/honey-bear-02-600.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/honey-bear-02-600-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/honey-bear-01-600.png\" alt=\"honey-bear-01-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/honey-bear-01-600.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/honey-bear-01-600-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a double hat-tip to the immensely followable twitter feed of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersatpenn\">PiersatPenn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And what about this?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Racism in the 1930s vs. today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TkvGiol3AO\">pic.twitter.com\/TkvGiol3AO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/n_srnck\/status\/781605673926877184\">September 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It probably takes some historical knowledge to appreciate the similarities here &#8212; the comparison is not entirely visual.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Are mathematically or verbally juxtaposable similarities equally subject to human comparative bias?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a questiom for Cath Styles and Emily Steiner ] . It&#8217;s my proposal here that look-alikes are in the eyes of the beholder, perhaps more so than other forms of likeness. Consider: 19th century Firefighters looked like Darth Vader and C3PO. pic.twitter.com\/lmkC3bFi08 &mdash; History in Moments (@historyinmoment) September 30, 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,1387,12,845,384,321,133,53,526,627,1151,1039,67,678,1,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century","category-analogical","category-analogy","category-antisemitism","category-art","category-blogosphere","category-book","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-medieval","category-movies","category-sembl","category-uncategorized","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52607","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=52607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52617,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52607\/revisions\/52617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}