{"id":2415,"date":"2021-10-01T02:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/polarization-and-flotation\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T02:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:59:35","slug":"polarization-and-flotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/polarization-and-flotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarization and Flotation in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Can we avoid both polarization and a noncommittal floating above the fray that does not commit to one side or the other? I fear not. Politics is war. You must take a side. You can&#39;t play the philosopher on the battlefield.&#0160; A warrior at war cannot be &quot;a spectator of all time and existence,&quot; as noble as such spectatorship is.&#0160; &#0160;A warrior who is fully human, however, will know when to put aside his weapons and take up his pen.&#0160; He will know that, in the end, &quot;The pen is mightier than the sword.&quot; But only in the end. Now you are in the field. If you don&#39;t survive the fight, there will be no time left for &#39;penmanship.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we avoid both polarization and a noncommittal floating above the fray that does not commit to one side or the other? I fear not. Politics is war. You must take a side. You can&#39;t play the philosopher on the battlefield.&#0160; A warrior at war cannot be &quot;a spectator of all time and existence,&quot; as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/polarization-and-flotation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polarization and Flotation in Politics&#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":[306,39,384,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-human-predicament","category-political-aporetics","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","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=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}