{"id":9072,"date":"2013-01-12T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/12\/compensation-for-decline\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T04:00:03","slug":"compensation-for-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/12\/compensation-for-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Compensation for Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>\"Owl\"<\/a>I tune in to CNN and hear about some academic who is taking a conspiracy line on the Sandy Hook massacre.  Deplorable, but in compensation there is the fascination of watching one's country unravel.  We owls of Minerva may not welcome the onset of dusk, but it is the time when we spread our wings.  And there is the consolation of knowing that one is fairly well insulated from the effects of the unraveling, both spatially and temporally.  Spatially, in that one can afford to live in a safe and defensible encla<\/a>ve.  Temporally, in that one can reasonably hope to be dead before things reach their nadir.<\/span><\/p>\n

Am I depressed? Not in the least. I wake up rarin' to go at another day of banging my head against this predicament we call life.  It's all grist for the mill of Minerva: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the indifferent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I tune in to CNN and hear about some academic who is taking a conspiracy line on the Sandy Hook massacre.  Deplorable, but in compensation there is the fascination of watching one's country unravel.  We owls of Minerva may not welcome the onset of dusk, but it is the time when we spread our wings.  … Continue reading “Compensation for Decline”<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","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=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}