{"id":3816,"date":"2019-04-27T04:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/the-visage-of-disillusion\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T04:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:38:18","slug":"the-visage-of-disillusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/the-visage-of-disillusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Visage of Disillusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The faces of the elderly, especially those of old men, often betray disillusionment with life: they&#39;ve seen through it. It&#39;s a business that doesn&#39;t cover its costs. (Schopenhauer) Women too are among the disillusioned, but they are &#39;under-represented.&#39;&#0160; That is because women as a group are more child-like than men as a group.&#0160; Is that a sexist remark? Not if it is true.&#0160; And it <em>is<\/em> true as anyone with any experience of life knows. Therein lies the charm of so many old ladies: they&#39;ve retained their girlish enthusiasm.&#0160; They are still eager to &#39;do things&#39; and they complain of their men that they &#39;don&#39;t want to do anything.&#39;&#0160; My wife&#39;s an old lady, older than me: she&#39;s into drinking and dancing with her girlfriends. Me, I&#39;m into thinking and trancing in solitude. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treccani.it\/vocabolario\/o-beata-solitudo-o-sola-beatitudo\/\">O beata solitudo, sola beatitudo!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faces of the elderly, especially those of old men, often betray disillusionment with life: they&#39;ve seen through it. It&#39;s a business that doesn&#39;t cover its costs. (Schopenhauer) Women too are among the disillusioned, but they are &#39;under-represented.&#39;&#0160; That is because women as a group are more child-like than men as a group.&#0160; Is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/the-visage-of-disillusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Visage of Disillusion&#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":[236,39,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-human-predicament","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}