{"id":260075,"date":"2020-08-03T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=260075"},"modified":"2020-08-03T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:56:55","slug":"purpose-and-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/purpose-and-legitimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose and Legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bias in philosophy and thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Only things created with purpose and intent have worth. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rationality, logic, and purposeful decision-making is king &#8230; any unconscious, subconscious or random has no worth. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why this bias? My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In a world of chaos, fear and darkness &#8230; humans have only been able to survive and thrive through careful planning to PREVENT potential bad things or trauma from happening. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite predictable world, is this a good way of living and thinking? If COVID-19 has taught us anything it is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Logic and rationality and planning abilities aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t apex. No. Fearlessness, flexibility, ability to change, adapt and evolve is king. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bias in philosophy and thinking: Only things created with purpose and intent have worth. Which means: Rationality, logic, and purposeful decision-making is king &#8230; any unconscious, subconscious or random has no worth. Why \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1634D881-4521-43F7-A19C-B023913BCD47.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260079,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260075\/revisions\/260079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}