{"id":818,"date":"2013-04-30T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=818"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:40:02","slug":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-cultural-surrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2013\/04\/30\/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-cultural-surrogate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Surrogate:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/29\/the-power-of-i-dont-know\/\">Tim Kreider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unalloyed honesty is the iridium of the information economy \u2014 vanishingly rare, and therefore precious. We don\u2019t respect people like Louis C.K. or George Saunders because of their credentials; it\u2019s because they\u2019re among the few people in public life who\u2019ll say anything obviously true \u2014 or, at the very least, anything they really mean. We trust that, unlike politicians or their spin doctors, corporate flacks, think-tank flunkies or cable propagandists, they have no agenda beyond the self-evident one of making a living with their work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, they are jesters. Fools.<\/p>\n<p>And that is not a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Kreider: Unalloyed honesty is the iridium of the information economy \u2014 vanishingly rare, and therefore precious. We don\u2019t respect people like Louis C.K. or George Saunders because of their credentials; it\u2019s because they\u2019re among the few people in public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2013\/04\/30\/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-cultural-surrogate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[588],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various-and-sundry","tag-honesty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}