{"id":48580,"date":"2021-11-01T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=48580"},"modified":"2021-11-11T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T03:18:12","slug":"william-burroughs-reminds-us-the-rulers-of-this-most-insecure-of-all-worlds-are-rulers-by-accident-inept-frightened-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/11\/william-burroughs-reminds-us-the-rulers-of-this-most-insecure-of-all-worlds-are-rulers-by-accident-inept-frightened-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"William Burroughs Reminds Us <\/font>
‘The Rulers of This Most Insecure of All Worlds Are Rulers By Accident, Inept Frightened Pilots’ <\/strong><\/em><\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Not one-man rule or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy but a small group elevated to positio\u200bn\u200bs of power by ra\u200bn\u200bdom pr\u200be\u200bssures and subject to political and economic factors that leave\u00a0\u200bl\u200bittl\u200be\u200b\u00a0room for decisions. They\u200b are representatives of abstract forces that reach power through surrender of self. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Click the image to see the video by Burroughs & John Cale<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The iron\u200b-willed dictator is a thing of the past. There will be no more \u200bS\u200btalins no more \u200bH\u200bitlers. The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident. Inept frightened pilots of controls of a \u200bv\u200bast machine they cannot understand\u200b,\u200b \u200bc\u200ba\u200bl\u200bling in \u200bexperts telling them which buttons to push.’<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Not one-man rule or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy but a small group elevated to positions of power by ra\u200bn\u200bdom pr\u200be\u200bssures and subject to political and economic factors that leave\u00a0\u200bl\u200bittl\u200be\u200b\u00a0room for decisions. They\u200b a\u200bre representatives of abstract forces that reach power through surrender of self.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Burroughs-Cale-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-cDy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48784,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48580\/revisions\/48784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}