{"id":516,"date":"2012-08-26T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-08-26T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T17:27:00","slug":"516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nScientists bow down to the &#8216;concretism&#8217; of a mode of understanding<br \/>\nthat finds the works of a clock more interesting than the time the<br \/>\nclock measures.  They have all become mechanics, as it were.  In their<br \/>\ntheories, they invest all their love in those things that they can<br \/>\ndeal with free of doubt.  They think they can find security in things<br \/>\nthat seem absolute to them and that protect them from all<br \/>\ncontradiction.  They are infatuated with neat means, methods, and<br \/>\ntechniques and pathologically underestimate, or forget, what they<br \/>\nthink themselves no longer capable of and what all of us at one time<br \/>\nor another have hoped to achieve in the way of insight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Max Horkheimer, qtd. in Dietrich D\u00f6rner, <i>The Logic of Failure<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Principle the Overly Refined<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Rather on your toes, up high,<br \/>\nThan crawling on all fours!<br \/>\nRather through a keyhole spy<br \/>\nThan through open doors!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Friedrich Nietzsche, <i>The Gay Science<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists bow down to the &#8216;concretism&#8217; of a mode of understanding that finds the works of a clock more interesting than the time the clock measures. They have all become mechanics, as it were. In their theories, they invest all their love in those things that they can deal with free of doubt. They think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}