{"id":12961,"date":"2008-11-03T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/03\/on-socializing-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:35:59","slug":"on-socializing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/03\/on-socializing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Socializing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To socialize, one must accommodate oneself to the mentality of the group. One must conform, fit in, be a \u2018regular guy,\u2019 and above all avoid serious conversation! But no independent spirit, no true individual, can tolerate this sort of self-denial unless it is absolutely forced on him. <em>Ganz man selbst sein, kann man nur wenn man allein ist!<\/em> (Schopenhauer) \u201cYou can only be entirely yourself when you are alone.\u201d \u201cWhosoever would be a man must be a nonconformist.\u201d (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In another place, Emerson tells that he does not visit the homes of his relatives because he does not like to be alone. I salute you, Waldo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To socialize, one must accommodate oneself to the mentality of the group. One must conform, fit in, be a \u2018regular guy,\u2019 and above all avoid serious conversation! But no independent spirit, no true individual, can tolerate this sort of self-denial unless it is absolutely forced on him. Ganz man selbst sein, kann man nur wenn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/03\/on-socializing-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Socializing&#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-12961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","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=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}