{"id":2792,"date":"2020-12-11T04:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T04:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T04:26:24","slug":"how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Recalling our miserably indigent origin in the the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important? We criticize and condemn one another hurling epithets and anathemas. How did we get to be so harsh and judgmental?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In a line often (mis)attributed to Augustine, but <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bernard_of_Clairvaux\" target=\"_self\">apparently<\/a> from Bernard of Clairvaux, <em>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/em>: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">So inauspicious a beginning for so proud a strut upon life&#39;s stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling our miserably indigent origin in the the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important? We criticize and condemn one another hurling epithets and anathemas. How did we get to be so harsh and judgmental? In a line often (mis)attributed to Augustine, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/i>&#8220;<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","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=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}