{"id":12291,"date":"2009-10-25T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/why-physical-culture-3\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T14:38:25","slug":"why-physical-culture-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/why-physical-culture-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Physical Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In part it is about control. I can&#39;t control your body, but I can control mine. Control is good. Power is good. Physical culture as the gaining and maintaining of power over that part of the physical world which is one&#39;s physical self. Self-mastery, as the highest mastery, must involve mastery of the vehicle of one&#39;s subjectivity. Control of one&#39;s vehicle is a clear desideratum. So stretch, run, hike, bike, swim, put the shot, lift the weight. In short: rouse your sorry ass from the couch of sloth and attend to your vehicle. &#39;Ass&#39; here refers to <em>Frate Asino<\/em>, Brother Jackass, St Francis&#39; name for his body. Keep him in good shape and he will carry you and many a prodigious load over many a <em>pons asinorum<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">(Interesting that Ger. <em>Arsch<\/em>, when it crossed the English Channel became &#39;arse,&#39; but in the trans-Atlantic trip it transmogrified into the polyvalent &#39;ass.&#39; Whatever you call it, get it off the couch.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part it is about control. I can&#39;t control your body, but I can control mine. Control is good. Power is good. Physical culture as the gaining and maintaining of power over that part of the physical world which is one&#39;s physical self. Self-mastery, as the highest mastery, must involve mastery of the vehicle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/why-physical-culture-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Physical Culture?&#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":[69,644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-brother-jackass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","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=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}