{"id":4987,"date":"2012-08-02T19:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2012-08-02T19:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T23:25:23","slug":"in-which-i-am-once-again-vindicated-to-my-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"In which I am once again vindicated, to my sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have another article up<\/strong> at The American Spectator Online<\/a> today. It’s about the problem of how young people are to understand the thinking of their ancestors, especially on issues like slavery.<\/p>\n

And then, this morning, James Lileks<\/a> pointed me to an article from io9<\/a> that perfectly illustrates the problem. This writer talks about the “mysterious” culture of the Incas, which “had no markets.”
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The secret of the Inca’s great wealth may have been their unusual tax system. Instead of paying taxes in money, every Incan was required to provide labor to the state. In exchange for this labor, they were given the necessities of life.<\/p>\n

Of course, not everybody had to pay labor tax. Nobles and their courts were exempt, as were other prominent members of Incan society…. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only someone who has completely failed to understand history, in the sense about which I write for the Spectator, <\/i>could fail to recognize the actual nature of Incan civilization. The common people were all slaves.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have another article up at The American Spectator Online today. It’s about the problem of how young people are to understand the thinking of their ancestors, especially on issues like slavery. And then, this morning, James Lileks pointed me to an article from io9 that perfectly illustrates the problem. This writer talks about the … Continue reading In which I am once again vindicated, to my sorrow<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}