{"id":939,"date":"2024-02-14T04:18:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/social-distance-and-good-relations\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T04:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:18:42","slug":"social-distance-and-good-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/social-distance-and-good-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distance and Good Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Social distance aids in the preservation of good relations with people. Familiarity breeds, if not contempt, disrespect. In the <em>famiglia, <\/em>especially. Conventional usages, phony and formulaic as they often are, have their uses. They allow for civil interaction while preserving distance. &quot;Good morning.&quot; &quot;After you, sir.&quot; We all want respect even while aware of how little we deserve it and how insincere are those who show it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A figure from Schopenhauer comes to mind. We are like porcupines on a cold night. They come together to stay warm but then prick one another and move apart. Trial and error leads to the optimal spatial adjustment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The art of life, with its trials and errors, is learned by living, and learned best by living long.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social distance aids in the preservation of good relations with people. Familiarity breeds, if not contempt, disrespect. In the famiglia, especially. Conventional usages, phony and formulaic as they often are, have their uses. They allow for civil interaction while preserving distance. &quot;Good morning.&quot; &quot;After you, sir.&quot; We all want respect even while aware of how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/social-distance-and-good-relations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Distance and Good Relations&#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":[406,39,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-life","category-human-predicament","category-manners-and-mores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}