{"id":5020,"date":"2009-03-21T01:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2009\/03\/21\/i-made-up-my-mind-that-i-would-never-try-to\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T01:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:50:06","slug":"i-made-up-my-mind-that-i-would-never-try-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/03\/21\/i-made-up-my-mind-that-i-would-never-try-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I made up my mind&hellip; that I would never try to reform man \u2014 that\u2019s much too difficult.<br \/>\nWhat I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>R. Buckminster Fuller<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made up my mind&hellip; that I would never try to reform man \u2014 that\u2019s much too difficult. 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