{"id":72,"date":"2008-02-07T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-02-07T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:49:25","slug":"what-bataille-was-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"What Bataille was after&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georges Bataille has always revolted me.\u00a0 Much more than the Marquis de Sade. But then it struck me that it is a good idea to explore the following thought:\u00a0 Given that any rationale anybody can come up with for morality is so weak, what if we were to adopt a frame of mind that knew nothing whatever of good or evil.\u00a0 That looked dispassionately at what we know.\u00a0 That would indeed be a useful point of view. Neither good nor bad.\u00a0 Not of that.\u00a0 Dispassionate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georges Bataille has always revolted me.\u00a0 Much more than the Marquis de Sade. But then it struck me that it is a good idea to explore the following thought:\u00a0 Given that any rationale anybody can come up with for morality is so weak, what if we were to adopt a frame of mind that knew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Bataille was after&#8230;.<\/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":[],"categories":[7,10,12,9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonepharisee.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}