{"id":9355,"date":"2012-09-18T05:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/the-retreat-into-the-private-life-2\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T05:38:31","slug":"the-retreat-into-the-private-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/the-retreat-into-the-private-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Retreat Into the Private Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When the world and its hopelessness are too much with us, one can and must beat a retreat into the private life.&#0160; Body culture, mind culture, hobbies, family life, the various escapes (which are not necessarily escapes from reality) into chess, fiction, religion, meditation, history, pure mathematics and science, one&#39;s own biography and the pleasant particulars of one&#39;s past, music, gardening, homemaking . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I pity the poor activist for whom the real is exhausted by the political.&#0160; But I detest these totalitarians as well since they seek to elide the boundary between the private and the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So we need to battle the bastards in the very sphere they think exhausts the real.&#0160; But it is and must be a part-time fight, lest we become like them.&#0160; Most of life for us conservatives must be given over to the enjoyment and appreciation, in private, of the apolitical:&#0160; nature, for example, and nature&#39;s God.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the world and its hopelessness are too much with us, one can and must beat a retreat into the private life.&#0160; Body culture, mind culture, hobbies, family life, the various escapes (which are not necessarily escapes from reality) into chess, fiction, religion, meditation, history, pure mathematics and science, one&#39;s own biography and the pleasant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/the-retreat-into-the-private-life-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Retreat Into the Private Life&#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":[306,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355","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=9355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}