{"id":10165,"date":"2011-11-17T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/17\/a-contradictory-being-who-issues-contradictory-demands\/"},"modified":"2011-11-17T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:59:05","slug":"a-contradictory-being-who-issues-contradictory-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/17\/a-contradictory-being-who-issues-contradictory-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contradictory Being Who Issues Contradictory Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We want a subordinate, a friend, a spouse to do our bidding, to embody in action our own intention, but also to show initiative, to anticipate our unstated wants and needs. Not content to command the other&#39;s body, making of it an extension of our will, we want also to command the other&#39;s freedom, making of &#0160;it an instrument of our freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I say to wifey: Bring me back a case of <em>Fat Tire Ale<\/em>. Upon her return,&#0160; no ale is in evidence. Inquiring why not, I am told that it was unavailable. &quot;Why then did you not fetch me a case of <em>Sam Adam&#39;s Boston Ale<\/em>?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;Because that is not what you asked for, and had I brought back Sam Adam&#39;s you would have complained that it was not Fat Tire.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want a subordinate, a friend, a spouse to do our bidding, to embody in action our own intention, but also to show initiative, to anticipate our unstated wants and needs. Not content to command the other&#39;s body, making of it an extension of our will, we want also to command the other&#39;s freedom, making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/17\/a-contradictory-being-who-issues-contradictory-demands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Contradictory Being Who Issues Contradictory Demands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}