{"id":5717,"date":"2013-04-30T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2013-04-30T21:31:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T04:31:51","slug":"let-us-open-a-discussion-on-anger-in-ancient-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/let-us-open-a-discussion-on-anger-in-ancient-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us open a discussion on anger in ancient literature&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Let us open a discussion on anger in ancient literature.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that our version of modernity seems to demonize outrage, sort of sterilize citizens&#8217; sense of indignation. The only criticism I am getting about my current approach with econoquacks is that I am &#8220;irascible&#8221; and should not have outbursts with fraudsters, &#8220;be less rude about it&#8221;. Some moralizing idiots even try to pathologize temperament, for &#8220;saying it as it is&#8221;. Yet ancient literature is nothing but a succession of angry heroes. &#8220;Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Is modernity&#8217;s mission to overdomesticate, castrate, neuter, even lobotomize citizens? Let us compare our values to more ancient ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151462221118375&amp;id=13012333374\">Let us open a&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us open a discussion on anger in ancient literature. It seems that our version of modernity seems to demonize outrage, sort of sterilize citizens&#8217; sense of indignation. The only criticism I am getting about my current approach with econoquacks is that I am &#8220;irascible&#8221; and should not have outbursts with fraudsters, &#8220;be less rude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5718,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}