{"id":499,"date":"2007-10-26T07:31:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T11:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2007-10-26T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T11:31:52","slug":"dawn-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks writes a piece entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/26\/opinion\/26brooks.html?ref=opinion\">&#8220;The Outsourced Brain.&#8221;<\/a>  Finally, one might think, a confession.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Instead: <\/p>\n<p>><strong>Since the dawn of humanity<\/strong>, people have had to worry about how to get from here to there. Precious brainpower has been used storing directions, and memorizing turns. I myself have been <strong>trapped<\/strong> at dinner parties at which conversation was devoted exclusively to the topic of commuter routes.<\/p>\n<p>Later:<\/p>\n<p>>Now, you may wonder if in the process of outsourcing my thinking I am losing my individuality. Not so. My preferences are more narrow and individualistic than ever. It\u2019s merely my autonomy that I\u2019m <strong>losing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Right.  &#8220;Losing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of us, the availability of information seems to suggest that we are responsible for knowing more, not less&#8211;with great knowledge, after all, comes great responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks writes a piece entitled: &#8220;The Outsourced Brain.&#8221; Finally, one might think, a confession. Nope. Instead: >Since the dawn of humanity, people have had to worry about how to get from here to there. Precious brainpower has been used storing directions, and memorizing turns. I myself have been trapped at dinner parties at which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dawn of time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-explanations","category-brooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}