{"id":3187,"date":"2020-04-15T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/back-on-facebook-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:58:42","slug":"back-on-facebook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/back-on-facebook-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I gave up Facebook for Lent, but now I&#39;m back.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I offer daily punch-back against leftist loons on a wide variety of topics. Culture critique in the bowels of the Zuckerbergian beast.&#0160; No lefties need apply. I am looking for a few good men and women to join me in the fight for sense and sanity and the defense of the Republic.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Most linkage and political commentary is now over at Facebook.&#0160; The idea behind the FB offload is to keep this site free of the polemics necessary in political warfare. As I see it, polemics has no place in philosophy, including political philosophy. The latter is theoretical; politics is practical. Politics is a form of warfare in which polemic and invective have their place.&#0160; The philosophical opponent is a friend to whom one is tied by a philiatic bond.&#0160; Theirs is a cooperation under the aegis of a truth that belongs to neither and is above both: <em>amicus Plato sed amica magis veritas.<\/em> The political opponent is an enemy whose opposition is &#39;existential.&#39;&#0160; <em>Must<\/em> it be so? No, but it is so at the present time. A politics based on mutual respect conducted under an umbrella of common principles and values is unlikely but not impossible.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Left has to be battled in multiple ways from multiple platforms. So occasionally polemical material will appear here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I received &#39;friend&#39; requests from a couple of hotties the other day who proudly strut their stuff and sport their &#39;racks&#39; on pages including links to their &#39;nude pics.&#39;&#0160; Sorry girls, you are not <em>MavPhil<\/em> material.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave up Facebook for Lent, but now I&#39;m back.&#0160; I offer daily punch-back against leftist loons on a wide variety of topics. Culture critique in the bowels of the Zuckerbergian beast.&#0160; No lefties need apply. I am looking for a few good men and women to join me in the fight for sense and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/back-on-facebook-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back on Facebook&#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":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","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=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}