{"id":1671,"date":"2023-01-19T05:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:35:59","slug":"the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist?sd=pf\">Top<\/a> of the Stack. It concludes:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You may recall the case of &#0160;Timothy Treadwell, who camped among grizzlies, and whose luck ran out.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In an&#0160;<em>Outside<\/em>&#0160;article, the author, Doug Peacock, reports that Treadwell &quot;told people he would be honored to &#39;end up in bear scat.&#39;&quot; And in his last letter, Treadwell refers to the grizzly as a &quot;perfect animal.&quot; There are here the unmistakable signs of nature idolatry. Man must worship something, and if God be denied, then an idol must take his place, whether it be nature with its flora and fauna, or money, or sex, or the Revolution, or &#0160;some other &#39;icon.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Deny God, devalue man, and end up bear shit. Way to go &#39;man.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the Stack. It concludes: You may recall the case of &#0160;Timothy Treadwell, who camped among grizzlies, and whose luck ran out.&#0160; In an&#0160;Outside&#0160;article, the author, Doug Peacock, reports that Treadwell &quot;told people he would be honored to &#39;end up in bear scat.&#39;&quot; And in his last letter, Treadwell refers to the grizzly as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idolatry","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}