{"id":2349,"date":"2010-02-16T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2010-02-16T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:34:29","slug":"deep-quote-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/02\/16\/deep-quote-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Quote for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies if this dips too far into the metaphysical, but I think this sentiment is an essential aspect of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_theory\">critical theory<\/a> as I read it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sin is evasion of time. In giving way to nostalgia, for example, we flee from time into the past. Evading time is accomplished mainly, however, by constructing worlds &#8212; orders of life in which everything has its assigned place, and all events are foreknown if not willed. There are personal worlds, occupied perhaps by only a single individual; and there is also &#8216;the world,&#8217; the surrounding order of society, treated as objectively knowable, humanly controllable, and morally final. A world is always a kind of fortress against time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fabric-Hope-University-Studies-Religion\/dp\/0802848575\/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265130318&amp;sr=8-11\">From Glen Tinder&#8217;s &#8220;The Fabric of Hope: An Essay&#8221;<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=a14f123bb1edab17bf8b11bbcc83f89b\">From Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies if this dips too far into the metaphysical, but I think this sentiment is an essential aspect of critical theory as I read it: Sin is evasion of time. In giving way to nostalgia, for example, we flee from time into the past. Evading time is accomplished mainly, however, by constructing worlds &#8212; orders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}