{"id":347858,"date":"2018-02-12T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/try-learning-not-to-ride-a-bicycle-so-we-can-save-the-world\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:29:34","slug":"try-learning-not-to-ride-a-bicycle-so-we-can-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/try-learning-not-to-ride-a-bicycle-so-we-can-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Learning Not to Ride a Bicycle So We Can Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Who would study and describe the living, starts \/By driving the spirits out of the parts: \/In the palm of his hand he holds all the sections, \/Lacks nothing, except the spirit\u2019s connections.<br \/>\u2014 Mephistopheles warning to the student in Goethe\u2019s <em>Faust<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And how far would you like to go in?\u201d he asked and the three kings all looked at each other. \u201cNot too far but just far enough so\u2019s we can say that we\u2019ve been there.<br \/>\u2014 Liner notes to Bob Dylan\u2019s <em>John Wesley Harding<\/em> album<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The shadow is what I <em>am<\/em> but will not admit I am.\u00a0 For the shadow of the psyche involves me in a deepening self-recognition which is more humiliating and emptying than the normal limits of endurance.\u00a0 In the end, acknowledging the shadow means acknowledging a bottomless void within me.\u00a0 The initial question of truth-force is: How deeply will I acknowledge my own emptiness?<br \/>\u2014 James W. Douglass, <em>Lightning East to West: Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We are haunted by a specter.\u00a0 Strange as it may sound, I was reminded of this when I saw a photograph of the quarterback of the Super Bowl winning Philadelphia Eagles, Nick Foles, looking and pointing up to the heavens.\u00a0 Or to be more precise, the roof of the aptly named U.S. Bank Stadium, a fitting venue for a national celebration of violence and the warfare state.\u00a0 But if we can assume Foles\u2019 gesture was meant to penetrate the roof and travel up to heaven, then you too may find it a bit odd, if touching.\u00a0 Most people, as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/try-learning-not-to-ride-a-bicycle-so-we-can-save-the-world\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would study and describe the living, starts \/By driving the spirits out of the parts: \/In the palm of his hand he holds all the sections, \/Lacks nothing, except the spirit\u2019s connections.\u2014 Mephistopheles warning to the student in Goethe\u2019s Faust And how far would you like to go in?\u201d he asked and the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}