{"id":6899,"date":"2015-10-27T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/harley-davidson-stickin-it-to-the-man-2\/"},"modified":"2015-10-27T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T05:06:05","slug":"harley-davidson-stickin-it-to-the-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/harley-davidson-stickin-it-to-the-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson: Stickin’ It to the Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out this H-D promotional video<\/a>.  A celebration of individuality by people who dress the same, ride the same make of motorcycle, and chant in unison.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Some of us believe in the Man Upstairs, but all of us believe in stickin' it to the Man Down Here." <\/span><\/p>\n

But without the Man Down Here there would be no roads, no gasoline, no science, no technology, no motorcycles, no law and order, no orderly context in which aging lawyers and dentists could play at stickin' it to the Man on the weekends.  The Man is discipline, self-denial, repression, deferral of gratification, control of the instinctual.   The Man is civilization, discontents and all. Without the Man there would be no one to stick it to, and nothing to stick it to him with.  Adolescents of all ages need the Man to have someone to rebel against.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still and all, after watching this video, what red-blooded American boomer doesn't want to rush out and buy himself a hog? Get your motor runnin'<\/a>, head out on the highway . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal anecdote<\/em>: A few years back I took a three-day motorcycle course, passed it, and got my license.  I was about ro rush out and buy myself a hog when Good Sense kicked in.  So I rushed out and bought myself a Jeep Wrangler instead.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out this H-D promotional video.  A celebration of individuality by people who dress the same, ride the same make of motorcycle, and chant in unison. "Some of us believe in the Man Upstairs, but all of us believe in stickin' it to the Man Down Here."  But without the Man Down Here there would be … Continue reading “Harley-Davidson: Stickin’ It to the Man”<\/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":[92,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","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=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}