{"id":1646,"date":"2021-03-24T20:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2021-03-24T20:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:11:14","slug":"the-state-of-play-by-blake-mcinerney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/2021\/03\/24\/the-state-of-play-by-blake-mcinerney\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>The State of Play<\/b>, By Blake McInerney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State of Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dogma, theory, law instruct us all<br \/>\nThere\u2019s them that\u2019s got and them that\u2019s not<br \/>\nThat, without the readies or the wherewithal,<br \/>\nPeople are nothing but fodder, fit just for the pot.<\/p>\n<p>So strip Creation, Nature, down to the bone,<br \/>\nprivatise life \u2018til all expire, unbeknown<br \/>\nto all ( save God, whose trappings we now own ! )<br \/>\nbecome, everlastingly so, free :<br \/>\nfree to sanctify inequality,<br \/>\nfree to worship Money and Self alone<br \/>\nfree to crown the human ape-baboon<br \/>\nfuture Queens and Kings of Mars or Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Free to oppress and dispossess the poor,<br \/>\nMaking Abrahamic chasms wider*,<br \/>\nfree to enshrine elites above the law<br \/>\nensuring none of us may be the wiser,<br \/>\nfree to bask as glorious sons of New-Man :<br \/>\nmonied incarnations of Space-born Hu-Man.<\/p>\n<p>* Cf. Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Gospel of Luke\u00a0 16, vv 19 &#8211; 31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State of Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dogma, theory, law instruct us all<br \/> There\u2019s them that\u2019s got and them that\u2019s not<br \/> That, without the readies or the wherewithal,<br \/> People are nothing but fodder, fit just for the pot.<\/p>\n<p>So strip Creation, Nature, down to the bone,<br \/> privatise life \u2018til all expire, unbeknown<br \/> to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essential-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}