{"id":2186,"date":"2024-11-07T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2024-12-26T04:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T04:01:45","slug":"moralists-without-morals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Moralists Without Morals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_Superbia2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_Superbia2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_Superbia2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_Superbia2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_(Superbia)2.jpg\">Detail of Superbia (Pride) from The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymous Bosch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would rather fly to the ice walls of Antarctica, or dwell among the steppes of Alexander\u2019s Gate, than listen to fools discuss right and wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woe to you, Luther! Woe to you, Genevan Gigolo!<br>Now everyone thinks themselves their own Pope and Plato!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch them, listen to them as they preach behind screens, this wretched throng;<br>How they rend themselves when they find something <em>acceptably<\/em> unclean!<br>\u201cA man of eighteen years, and a girl of sixteen? Groomer!\u201d\u2014so goes their song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet what would they have done, if the man dressed as a queen?<br>Give them pause\u2014but not for long\u2014and then they would cry anew:<br>\u201cLove is Love! All are Equal!\u201d\u2014so goes their screen-song, their song-screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Count that \u201clove\u201d as love and the former untrue<br>And you mock Justice\u2014but Justice mocks you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I would fain flee to Sarmatia and the frozen Sea when people who ape the Curii and live like Bacchanals dare talk about morals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Juvenal, Satire II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8,22,10,29,30],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-faith","tag-history","tag-philosophy","tag-satire","tag-social-critique"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}