{"product_id":"2940046130140","title":"The Bard From The Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a recent holiday in the Maritimes, I came home filled with images of the ocean, and felt the urge to pour my share of humanity's waters onto the page. Is well-designed participatory democracy what people are truly yearning for? I think so. Our leaders have the mind of the few, and override the will of the mind of the many on a regular basis. A million people are far wiser than a thousand, it has been proven, and yet small cliques of rulers continue to inflict their people with the needless suffering of corrupt and incompetent law-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn imaginary bard comes from the sea of humanity's shared consciousness and tells us what we know to be true in our hearts - if only the laws were truly of our own creation, then the flames of hope could be rekindled in a new, creative age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rori O'Keeffe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108497572080,"sku":"2940046130140","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046130140_p0.jpg?v=1763999132","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046130140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}