{"id":143424,"date":"2026-01-02T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143424"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:30:10","slug":"2025-was-the-year-of-denial-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143424","title":{"rendered":"2025 was the year of denial. What now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs an undergraduate student of anthropology long ago, I remember studying the phenomenon of \u201ccompartmentalism\u201d as a hallmark of primitive cultures or societies \u2013 their capacity to hold contradictory beliefs without inner conflict or even appearing to notice the contradictions.<br \/>\nWe well-educated rationalists in the rich West were supposed to be above this kind of schizophrenic inconsistency, seen as a symptom of a defective imagination or the shallowness of the masses.<br \/>\nThink of street hawkers in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3338425\/2025-was-year-denial-what-now?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs an undergraduate student of anthropology long ago, I remember studying the phenomenon of \u201ccompartmentalism\u201d as a hallmark of primitive cultures or societies \u2013&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}