{"id":545,"date":"2006-07-02T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=545"},"modified":"2006-07-02T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T14:55:05","slug":"freedom-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/07\/02\/freedom-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"freedom in the usa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Crap! Why is so much of the US population in prison!? Both relative to other &#8216;basically well-functioning advanced capitalist democracies&#8217;:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2006\/05\/26\/incarceration-again\/#more-4711\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"incarceration-oecd.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/archives\/incarceration-oecd.png?resize=482%2C622\" width=\"482\" height=\"622\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(This from <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2006\/05\/26\/incarceration-again\/#more-4711\">Crooked Timber post<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And relative to the the US of 25 years ago:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cogsci.ucsd.edu\/~sereno\/oil06.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prisonplanet.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/archives\/prisonplanet.jpg?resize=580%2C370\" width=\"580\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(from Martin Sereno&#8217;s presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/cogsci.ucsd.edu\/~sereno\/oil06.pdf\">Peak Oil<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re at it, here&#8217;s another slide which Sereno labelled &#8216;the beginning of corporate planet&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cogsci.ucsd.edu\/~sereno\/oil06.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"corporateplanet.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/archives\/corporateplanet.jpg?resize=580%2C368\" width=\"580\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p> (of course, although some would like it to be, what&#8217;s true for the US isn&#8217;t necessarily true for the rest of the planet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Crap! Why is so much of the US population in prison!? Both relative to other &#8216;basically well-functioning advanced capitalist democracies&#8217;: (This from Crooked Timber post) And relative to the the US of 25 years ago: (from Martin Sereno&#8217;s presentation on Peak Oil.) While we&#8217;re at it, here&#8217;s another slide which Sereno labelled &#8216;the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-8N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}