{"id":5980,"date":"2016-12-05T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/the-altar-of-activism\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T04:11:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:11:17","slug":"the-altar-of-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/the-altar-of-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Altar of Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Don&#39;t sacrifice your happiness on the altar of activism.&#0160; Although happiness involves activity as Aristotle observed, it also involves rest, appreciation, enjoyment, gratitude, contentment, and contemplation.&#0160;These, especially the last five, are deeply conservative. &#0160;And they lie beyond the political.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">We conservatives should be politically active only to the extent that it is necessary to beat back the totalitarians for whom the political is all.<\/span> &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#39;t sacrifice your happiness on the altar of activism.&#0160; Although happiness involves activity as Aristotle observed, it also involves rest, appreciation, enjoyment, gratitude, contentment, and contemplation.&#0160;These, especially the last five, are deeply conservative. &#0160;And they lie beyond the political. We conservatives should be politically active only to the extent that it is necessary to beat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/the-altar-of-activism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Altar of Activism&#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":[306,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","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=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}