{"id":1041,"date":"2013-10-17T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2013-10-17T01:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T07:22:23","slug":"break-on-through-schopenhauer-to-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Break On Through (Schopenhauer) to the Other Side!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>O sweet &amp; deadly nihilism, what cruel beauty&#8230;<br \/>\nOf the four flavors of psychological states,<br \/>\nThree intoxicants are poisonous<br \/>\nNaturally &amp; culturally, individually &amp; socially!<\/p>\n<p>First venomous flavor is the cockcrow<br \/>\nOf arrant meaninglessness&#8211;<br \/>\nA failure of Grand Purpose,<br \/>\nPromises a bitter aftertaste of\u00a0<\/em><\/em><em><em>Discouragement &amp; melancholia!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><br \/>\nSecond rancorous flavor is the faith<br \/>\nIn some conjectural Everything, a great Chain of Being;<br \/>\nA cosmic guarantor of infinite worth!<br \/>\nWoe unto he who loses his faith,<br \/>\nfor he loses his own self-worth too!<\/p>\n<p>Third malignant flavor is the visceral gasp<br \/>\nAt the infinite flux, absent a safe respite;<br \/>\nNothing to do but condemn all<br \/>\nFor the sake of some Cloud Cuckoo Land,<br \/>\nThat has no staying power whatsoever!<\/p>\n<p>And the Fourth flavor? Curiously,<br \/>\nNeither aim, nor unity, nor Being apply!<br \/>\nNothing left but a brand new tomorrow<br \/>\nFreed of crumbling relics &amp; monuments of yesteryear!<br \/>\nFreed at last to create new selves, new worlds, new futures!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O sweet &amp; deadly nihilism, what cruel beauty&#8230; Of the four flavors of psychological states, Three intoxicants are poisonous Naturally &amp; culturally, individually &amp; socially! First venomous flavor is the cockcrow Of arrant meaninglessness&#8211; A failure of Grand Purpose, Promises a bitter aftertaste of\u00a0Discouragement &amp; melancholia! Second rancorous flavor is the faith In some conjectural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Break On Through (Schopenhauer) to the Other Side!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,3,2,5],"tags":[333,29,28,283,335],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-gN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}