{"id":20347,"date":"2023-11-11T16:38:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T00:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=20347"},"modified":"2023-11-12T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:32:08","slug":"the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/11\/the-deep-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State, or, Jonathan Rauch, THE CONSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said the last two posts that I would quote the passages of Rauch&#8217;s book in which he describes what he considers to be the components of the &#8220;reality-based community.&#8221; And how it struck me that some of these components are likely what the simple-minded right thinks of as the &#8220;deep state&#8221; that is somehow conspiring to deprive them of their freedom, and which they would eliminate (DeSantis would &#8220;cut their throats&#8221;), without understanding them or why they are needed to preserve our complex society. So for now (never mind scanning and converting to text, as I suggested earlier) here are two photos showing pages 100-102 of the book. Click on images for expanded views.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rauch100101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rauch100101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/rauch102.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/rauch102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--Well, these are readable, but perhaps I'll try the steps to scan and convert to text anyway... maybe.--><\/p>\n<p>The takeaways here are the &#8216;norms&#8217; or rules upon which these professions work. In particular how researchers, and journalists, should not be told in advance what conclusions to find. That is, avoid motivated reasoning. &#8220;They regard lying and making up stuff up as a firing offense.&#8221; (And yet, this hasn&#8217;t prevented social media, and Fox News, from doing precisely that. Because there is an audience for their lies. Which many people prefer, over reality.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said the last two posts that I would quote the passages of Rauch&#8217;s book in which he describes what he considers to be the components of the &#8220;reality-based community.&#8221; And how it struck me that some of these components &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/11\/the-deep-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,90,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-notes","category-conservatives","category-epistemology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20358,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347\/revisions\/20358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}