{"id":6398,"date":"2016-06-02T15:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/02\/apatheia-and-the-news\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:55:49","slug":"apatheia-and-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/02\/apatheia-and-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatheia<\/i> and the News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why follow the disturbing events of the day, thereby jeopardizing one's peace of mind, when one can do nothing about them?  Apatheia<\/em> and the news don't go well together.  Withdrawal and retreat remain options to consider.  But on the other side<\/a> of the question:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The temptation to retreat into one's private life is very strong.  But if you give in and let the Left have free reign you may wake up one day with no private life left.  Not that 'news fasts' from time to time are not a good idea.  We should all consume less media dreck.  But there is no final retreat from totalitarians.  They won't allow it.  At some point one has to stand and fight in defense, not only of the individual, but also of the mediating structures of civil society.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Why follow the disturbing events of the day, thereby jeopardizing one's peace of mind, when one can do nothing about them?  Apatheia and the news don't go well together.  Withdrawal and retreat remain options to consider.  But on the other side of the question: The temptation to retreat into one's private life is very strong.  … Continue reading “Apatheia<\/i> and the News”<\/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":[306,465,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-solitude","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398","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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}