{"id":10229,"date":"2011-11-01T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/the-social-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:49:02","slug":"the-social-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/the-social-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Either mix or don&#39;t mix. If you mix, you must move to the level of your companions, which is often to move down. If you don&#39;t mix, then they will hate you for being a snob. So you either degrade yourself or incur their dislike. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Mixing a little is no real solution, since they will resent you for not mixing a lot. Any attempted distancing will be perceived as a slight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A social pariah does not face the social dilemma, but then neither does he reap any of the benefits of communal living. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Familiarity breeds contempt, but aloofness breeds the opposite, envious dislike. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Dilemma or false alternative?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either mix or don&#39;t mix. If you mix, you must move to the level of your companions, which is often to move down. If you don&#39;t mix, then they will hate you for being a snob. So you either degrade yourself or incur their dislike. Mixing a little is no real solution, since they will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/the-social-dilemma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Social Dilemma&#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-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","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=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}