{"id":10757,"date":"2011-04-19T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/19\/eric-hoffer-contentment-and-the-paradox-of-plenty\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T06:15:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T06:15:43","slug":"eric-hoffer-contentment-and-the-paradox-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/19\/eric-hoffer-contentment-and-the-paradox-of-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Hoffer, Contentment, and the Paradox of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Eric Hoffer as quoted in James D. Koerner, <strong>Hoffer&#39;s America<\/strong> (Open Court, 1973), p. 25:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">I need little to be contented. Two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing each day. This to me is a full life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">And this after a full day at the San Francisco waterfront unloading ships.&#0160; And we&#39;re talking cheap tobacco smoked after a meal of Lipton soup and Vienna sausage&#0160;in a humble apartment in a marginal part of town.&#0160; Hoffer, who had it tough indeed, had the wisdom to be satisfied with what he had.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Call it the paradox of plenty: those who had to struggle in the face of adversity developed character and worth, while those with opportunities galore and an easy path became slackers and malcontents and &#39;revolutionaries.&#39; &#0160; Adding to the paradox is that those who battled adversity learned gratitude while those who had it handed to them became ingrates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hoffer as quoted in James D. Koerner, Hoffer&#39;s America (Open Court, 1973), p. 25: I need little to be contented. Two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing each day. This to me is a full life. And this after a full day at the San Francisco waterfront &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/19\/eric-hoffer-contentment-and-the-paradox-of-plenty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eric Hoffer, Contentment, and the Paradox of Plenty&#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":[549,39,80],"tags":[737],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoffer-eric","category-human-predicament","category-paradoxes","tag-eric-hoffer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","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=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}