{"id":2345,"date":"2021-11-13T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/13\/the-mighty-tetrad-money-power-sex-and-recognition\/"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:33:34","slug":"the-mighty-tetrad-money-power-sex-and-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/13\/the-mighty-tetrad-money-power-sex-and-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Tetrad: Money, Power, Sex, and Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Money, power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex, and recognition? The sober truth is that no member of the Mighty Tetrad is evil or the root of all evil. Each is ambiguous: a good liable to perversion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"Money,%20power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex, and recognition? The sober truth is that no member of the Mighty Tetrad is evil or the root of all evil. Each is ambiguous: a good liable to perversion.\">Read the rest<\/a> at <em>Substack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Linked at my Facebook page. You may leave a comment there if you wish, or send me an e-mail message.&#0160; I have come to refer to Facebook as <em>Furzbuch<\/em> because its suppression of free speech surely stinks to high heaven.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">There I must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jh169rVMveA\">walk the line<\/a>. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8i5NLyXZdc\">I won&#39;t back down<\/a>.&#0160; It&#39;s going to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/archives\/other-resources\/john-f-kennedy-speeches\/inaugural-address-19610120\">a long twilight struggle<\/a>* against the forces of darkness, my friends. (Wo)Man up, gear up, but be of good cheer. Long live the Republic!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">____________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">*&quot;Now the trumpet summons us again&#8211;not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need&#8211;not as a call to battle, though embattled we are&#8211; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, &#39;rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation&#39;&#8211;a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.&quot; JFK Inaugural Speech, 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Of the four, tyranny is greatest threat at the present time, the tyranny of the deep state wokesters who control the Democrat Party and pull the strings of the puppet-in-chief, Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money, power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/13\/the-mighty-tetrad-money-power-sex-and-recognition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mighty Tetrad: Money, Power, Sex, and Recognition&#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":[216,47,221,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-power","category-psychology-and-personality-typology","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}