{"id":11107,"date":"2010-11-22T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/on-accomplishing-non-accomplishment\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:21:04","slug":"on-accomplishing-non-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/on-accomplishing-non-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"On Accomplishing Non-Accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Successfully resisting the hyperkineticism of one&#39;s society, saying No to it by&#0160;&#0160;<em>fl\u00e2nerie<\/em>, studiousness, <em>otium liberale<\/em>, traipsing over mountain trails at sunrise and whatnot &#8212; this too is a sort of accomplishment.&#0160; You have to work at it a bit.&#0160; Part of the work is divesting oneself of the expectations of others and resisting their and the larger society&#39;s suggestions.&#0160; Eradicating one&#39;s suggestibility is actually a life-long&#0160;task, and none too easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The world&#39;s a vast project of often useless neg-otiation. There is need of those who will &#39;otiate&#39; it, enjoying &quot;leisure with a good conscience&quot; to cop a phrase from Nietzsche,&#0160;that untimely saunterer.&#0160; Slow down! You&#39;ll get to your grave soon enough.&#0160; Why rush?&#0160; Is the universe in a rush to get somewhere?&#0160; Are you any less cosmic, you microcosm?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successfully resisting the hyperkineticism of one&#39;s society, saying No to it by&#0160;&#0160;fl\u00e2nerie, studiousness, otium liberale, traipsing over mountain trails at sunrise and whatnot &#8212; this too is a sort of accomplishment.&#0160; You have to work at it a bit.&#0160; Part of the work is divesting oneself of the expectations of others and resisting their and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/on-accomplishing-non-accomplishment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Accomplishing Non-Accomplishment&#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":[72,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-slow-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","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=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}