{"id":55985,"date":"2017-07-16T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55985"},"modified":"2017-07-16T18:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:07:01","slug":"on-humility-clinton-bush-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55985","title":{"rendered":"On humility: Clinton, Bush &#8212; and Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; another &#8220;life imitates art&#8221; and a Trumpian ouroboros ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, <strong>humility<\/strong> shaves ckoser than <strong>Occam&#8217;s Razor<\/strong> &#8212; Occam tends not to shave our assumptions, while humility invites us to consider even our thoughts, even our certainties, as uncertain, as open to question.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention I&#8217;m the proud owner of the domain name, <a href=\"https:\/\/whois.icann.org\/en\/lookup?name=churchoftheopenquestion.com\">Church of the Open Question<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Life imitates art:<\/p>\n<p>Upper panel: <strong>George W Bush<\/strong> and <strong>Bill Clinton<\/strong> on humility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Tablet-DQ-humility.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Tablet-DQ-humility.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Tablet-DQ-humility-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lower panel: from Madam Secretary, season 3..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trumpian Ouroboros:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-_mbZ63WCA?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually brilliant, IMO. And Trump relishes and repeats it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KennicotAsks\">@KennicotAsks<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> Of all the fellow celebrities you&#39;ve met, which do you consider to be the most humble?&quot;  ME!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/454063351111229440\">April 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, <strong>Pope Francis<\/strong> is a close second..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The new Pope is a humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/415868924841189376\">December 25, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this &#8212; delicious &#8212; from a WaPo piece titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/11\/10\/donald-trumps-secret-service-code-name-is-less-humble-more-mogul\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s Secret Service code name is less humble, more mogul<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a lightning round of a debate, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump picked a potential Secret Service code name that was truly coded: HUMBLE. When the braggadocious billionaire starts to receive actual Secret Service protection Wednesday morning, agents plan to call him something a bit more fitting: MOGUL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay. Mebbe that&#8217;s a bit more modest.<\/p>\n<p>Hm. MOGUL as in magnate, tycoon? Or MOGUL as in speed-bump on the ski slopes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; another &#8220;life imitates art&#8221; and a Trumpian ouroboros ] . In my view, humility shaves ckoser than Occam&#8217;s Razor &#8212; Occam tends not to shave our assumptions, while humility invites us to consider even our thoughts, even our certainties, as uncertain, as open to question. Did I mention I&#8217;m the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,82,575,526,497,1505,1314,888,1332,1460,719,1,1326,1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush","category-business","category-character","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-clinton","category-donald-trump","category-francis","category-humility","category-potus","category-sports","category-uncategorized","category-virtue-and-vice","category-virtues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55985","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=55985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56001,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55985\/revisions\/56001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}