{"id":65303,"date":"2019-06-05T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65303"},"modified":"2019-06-05T03:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T03:08:02","slug":"venezuela-the-body-politic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65303","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: The Body Politic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron <\/strong>&#8212; zen mind would be blanker than mine, but mine&#8217;s getting pretty blank &#8212; evidence in the post below ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/two-brains-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"518\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/two-brains-2.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/two-brains-2-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m DoubleQuoting that with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/venezuelas-two-residents.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/venezuelas-two-residents.png 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/venezuelas-two-residents-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Jon Lee Anderson<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/06\/10\/venezuelas-two-presidents-collide\">Venezuela\u2019s Two Presidents Collide<\/a>\n<li><strong>Michael Gazzaniga<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20190522-why-do-some-people-have-two-brains\">Why do some people have \u2018two brains\u2019?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>So the body politic of Venezuela is currently of two minds. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Think about what you know of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lateralization_of_brain_function\">two hemispheres<\/a>\n<li>Think about what you know of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schizophrenia\">schizophrenia<\/a>\n<li>Think about what you know of the <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10728.html\">King&#8217;s Two Bodies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a nudge. You may well be able to think thoughts along these lines far better than I. Ergo, I won&#8217;t do your thinking for you. Besides, if I did, I&#8217;d need to do three whole heaps of research, and my library is in storage, my mind in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Limbo? <\/p>\n<p>How anyone can conflate, or almost conflate, schizophrenia with lateral specialization with Kantorowicz&#8217; theory of monarchy is, frankly, beyond me. But I&#8217;ve tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; zen mind would be blanker than mine, but mine&#8217;s getting pretty blank &#8212; evidence in the post below ] . I&#8217;m DoubleQuoting that with: ** Sources: Jon Lee Anderson, Venezuela\u2019s Two Presidents Collide Michael Gazzaniga, Why do some people have \u2018two brains\u2019? ** So the body politic of Venezuela is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,526,627,165,51,1455,660,1076,1631,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-historians","category-history","category-mental-health","category-monarchy","category-non-dual","category-two-into-one","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65303","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=65303"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65326,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65303\/revisions\/65326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}