{"id":5530,"date":"2017-05-10T05:33:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/real-enough-to-debase-but-not-real-enough-to-satisfy\/"},"modified":"2017-05-10T05:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:33:14","slug":"real-enough-to-debase-but-not-real-enough-to-satisfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/real-enough-to-debase-but-not-real-enough-to-satisfy\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Enough to Debase, but Not Real Enough to Satisfy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">St. Augustine at <em>Confessions<\/em>, Bk. VI, Ch. 11, speaks of &quot;a greed for enjoying present things that both fled me and debased me.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">A paradox of pleasure. &#0160;Certain pleasures madly striven after prove fleeting and unreal, yet not so fleeting and unreal that they cannot degrade and debase their pursuers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">At the apogee of this mad trajectory, the pleasure pursued issues in death as in the case of David Carradine&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/story?id=7763422&amp;page=1\">death<\/a> by auto-erotic asphyxiation in a Bangkok hotel room. &#0160;Is there any more extreme case of the insane abuse of the body as a pleasure factory?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Augustine at Confessions, Bk. VI, Ch. 11, speaks of &quot;a greed for enjoying present things that both fled me and debased me.&quot; A paradox of pleasure. &#0160;Certain pleasures madly striven after prove fleeting and unreal, yet not so fleeting and unreal that they cannot degrade and debase their pursuers. At the apogee of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/real-enough-to-debase-but-not-real-enough-to-satisfy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Real Enough to Debase, but Not Real Enough to Satisfy&#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":[335,420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-pleasure-and-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}