{"id":12772,"date":"2009-03-05T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/05\/thomas-mann-on-politics\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:17:59","slug":"thomas-mann-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/05\/thomas-mann-on-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Mann on Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From Thomas Mann&#39;s journal entry of August 5, 1934:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A cynical egotism, a selfish limitation of concern to one&#39;s personal welfare and one&#39;s reasonable survival in the face of the headstrong and voluptuous madness of &#39;history&#39; is amply justified. One is a fool to take politics seriously, to care about it, to sacrifice one&#39;s moral and intellectual strength to it. All one can do is survive, and preserve one&#39;s personal freedom and dignity.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Onesided, but forgiveably so.&#0160; Pertinent to the present.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Thomas Mann&#39;s journal entry of August 5, 1934: A cynical egotism, a selfish limitation of concern to one&#39;s personal welfare and one&#39;s reasonable survival in the face of the headstrong and voluptuous madness of &#39;history&#39; is amply justified. One is a fool to take politics seriously, to care about it, to sacrifice one&#39;s moral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/05\/thomas-mann-on-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thomas Mann on Politics&#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":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772","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=12772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}