{"id":654,"date":"2012-02-09T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=654"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:37:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:37:57","slug":"new-seven-deadly-vices-seriousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"New Seven Deadly Vices: Seriousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why, indeed?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In other words: Earnest. Sincere. Pompous. Grave. Boring. Complacent. Smug. Self-righteous.<\/em><\/p>\n

An attitude that grows grim & deadens levity for the sake of values that cannot – and ought not – be questioned, much less put in the context that does not assume them or take them for granted. Seriousness is the first & fatal step towards dogmatism of any type, along with hypocrisy and pretense that’s always found hand in hand with politics or religion — those ideological sinkholes of petty bullshit.<\/p>\n

A serious person takes the obvious false step in a comedy or a satire. At best, being serious locks you in as a straight man in the joke and at worst, end up as the punchline of the joke. Being serious is little more than shackling yourself to a position and throwing away the key, robbing yourself all room to maneuver and room for flexibility to adapt to the changing situation.<\/p>\n

All seriousness of intent & purpose rest on arbitrary foundations, and is quickly subverted by irony, parody, black humor, or wit. Irreverence leaves room for discussion or interpretation and tolerates varying degrees of conviction — as opposed to “my truth is better than yours” logic.<\/p>\n

Bottom line:<\/strong> a life of play, parody, irony and simulation is just as important as a serious one, if not more so.<\/p>\n

#1. Ignorance<\/a><\/p>\n

#3. Mediocrity<\/a><\/p>\n

#4. Prudery<\/a><\/p>\n

#5. Humility<\/a><\/p>\n

#6. Self-Deception<\/a><\/p>\n

#7. Boredom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other words: Earnest. Sincere. Pompous. Grave. Boring. Complacent. Smug. Self-righteous.<\/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],"tags":[253,252],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}