{"id":4808,"date":"2018-02-01T05:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T05:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/01\/man-as-onion\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T05:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T05:38:32","slug":"man-as-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/01\/man-as-onion\/","title":{"rendered":"Man as Onion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Eric Hoffer, <em>The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms<\/em> (New York: Harper &amp; Bros., 1955), p. 62, Aph. # 96:&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Man&#39;s being is neither profound nor sublime. To search for something deep underneath the surface in order to explain human phenomena is to discard the nutritious outer layer for a nonexistent core. Like a bulb man is all skin and no kernel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I disagree completely. Man is no onion or bulb, surface all the way down, with a nonexistent core. &quot;Man is a stream whose source is hidden.&quot; (R. W. Emerson, &quot;The Over-Soul&quot;) The central task of life is not to write merely clever aphorisms, but to return to the Source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Or perhaps I should say that what the stevedore says is true &#8212; of extroverts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/03\/seriousness-as-camouflage-of-nullity.html\">Seriousness as Camouflage of Nullity<\/a>.&#0160; (On the topic of death.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms (New York: Harper &amp; Bros., 1955), p. 62, Aph. # 96:&#0160; Man&#39;s being is neither profound nor sublime. To search for something deep underneath the surface in order to explain human phenomena is to discard the nutritious outer layer for a nonexistent core. Like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/01\/man-as-onion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man as Onion?&#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":[181,549,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-hoffer-eric","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","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=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}