{"id":4254,"date":"2018-09-08T05:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/the-worst-thing-about-poverty-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T05:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T05:01:28","slug":"the-worst-thing-about-poverty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/the-worst-thing-about-poverty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Thing About Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Theodor Haecker<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Journal in the Night<\/em> (Pantheon, 1950, tr. Dru), p. 38, written in 1940:<\/span><\/p>\n

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155. The worst of poverty \u2014 today at any rate \u2014 the most galling and the most difficult thing to bear, is that it makes it almost impossible to be alone<\/em>. Neither at work, nor at rest, neither abroad nor at home, neither waking nor sleeping, neither in health, nor \u2014 what a torture \u2014 in sickness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Money cannot buy happiness but in many circumstances it can buy the absence of misery.  Due diligence in its acquisition and preservation is therefore well recommended.  The purpose of money is not to enable indulgence but to make  possible a life worth living.  Otium liberale<\/em> in poverty is a hard row to hoe; a modicum of the lean green helps immeasurably.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Boethius wrote philosophy in prison, but you are no Boethius.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Things being as they are, a life worth living for many of us is more a matter of freedom from<\/em> than freedom for<\/em>.  Money buys freedom from all sorts of negatives.  Money allows one to avoid places destroyed by the criminal element and their liberal enablers, to take but one example. <\/span>And chiming in with Haecker's main point, money buys freedom from oppressive others so that one can enjoy happy solitude, the sole beatitude. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

O beata solitudo, sola beatitudo!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theodor Haecker, Journal in the Night (Pantheon, 1950, tr. Dru), p. 38, written in 1940: 155. The worst of poverty \u2014 today at any rate \u2014 the most galling and the most difficult thing to bear, is that it makes it almost impossible to be alone. Neither at work, nor at rest, neither abroad nor at home, neither … Continue reading “The Worst Thing About Poverty”<\/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":[182,216,465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haecker-theodor","category-money-matters","category-solitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","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=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}