{"id":785,"date":"2024-05-05T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/hyperkinetic-and-hyperconnected\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T03:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T03:30:18","slug":"hyperkinetic-and-hyperconnected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/hyperkinetic-and-hyperconnected\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperkinetic and Hyperconnected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The typical American&#39;s life is frantic, frenetic, hyperkinetic, and hyperconnected. For any really good reason? What&#39;s the rush?&#0160; <em>Quo vadis<\/em>? Whither goest thou, thoughtless hustler?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">From time to time we need to slow down and unplug. Try to go deviceless for a few days. Haul off to some desert spot and rest incommunicado, out of range of worldly noise.&#0160; Stop jabbering and listen for signals from beyond the human horizon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In our ever-accelerating descent into national dementia we are building a spiritual Faraday cage to &#39;shield&#39; us from intimations from Elsewhere. We are sinking ever deeper into our empty immanence.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The typical American&#39;s life is frantic, frenetic, hyperkinetic, and hyperconnected. For any really good reason? What&#39;s the rush?&#0160; Quo vadis? Whither goest thou, thoughtless hustler?&#0160; From time to time we need to slow down and unplug. Try to go deviceless for a few days. Haul off to some desert spot and rest incommunicado, out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/hyperkinetic-and-hyperconnected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hyperkinetic and Hyperconnected&#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":[72,291,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-sermons","category-slow-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}