{"id":7488,"date":"2014-12-27T05:18:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T05:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/the-quester\/"},"modified":"2014-12-27T05:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T05:18:26","slug":"the-quester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/the-quester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">What is the quester after? What does he seek?&#0160; He doesn&#39;t quite know, and that is part of his being a romantic. He experiences his present &#39;reality&#39; as flat, stale, jejune, oppressive, substandard. He feels there must be more to life than work-a-day routines and social objectifications, the piling up of loot, getting ahead, &quot;competitive finite selfhood&quot; in a fine phrase of A. E. Taylor&#39;s.&#0160; He wants intensity of experience, abundance of life, even while being unclear as to what these are.&#0160; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">He casts a negative eye on the status quo, the older generation, his parents and family, and their quiet desperation. He scorns security and its living death. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Christopher J. McCandless was a good example,&#0160; he whose story was skillfully recounted by&#0160;Jon Krakauer in&#0160;<em>Into the Wild<\/em>.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; In&#0160;McCandless&#39; case, the scorn for security, his&#0160;fleeing a living death, led to a dying death. In an excess of self-reliance he crossed the Teklanika, not realizing it was his Rubicon and that its crossing would deposit him on the Far Shore.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Be bold, <em>muchachos<\/em>, be bold; be not <em>too<\/em> bold.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the quester after? What does he seek?&#0160; He doesn&#39;t quite know, and that is part of his being a romantic. He experiences his present &#39;reality&#39; as flat, stale, jejune, oppressive, substandard. He feels there must be more to life than work-a-day routines and social objectifications, the piling up of loot, getting ahead, &quot;competitive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/the-quester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Quester&#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":[203,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questers-and-other-oddballs","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}