{"id":499,"date":"2019-04-16T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=499"},"modified":"2020-08-21T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:30:04","slug":"499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2019\/04\/16\/499\/","title":{"rendered":"Parting Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site had a simple goal,\u00a0to open a space for my political ranting,\u00a0a sideline for me, hence the occasional nature of these pieces. They have become increasing occasional as time&#8217;s gone by and, the darkness of (the) age conspiring, my thoughts have erred off into diverse directions. So I am hoping to re-jig this page to allow for more variety, \u00a0more &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alterity\">alterity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alteritas<\/em>, the late Latin original lying behind the contemporary buzzword, was as my domain name indicates its inspiration. To <em>alteritas<\/em> it shall return.<\/p>\n<p>But do let me mention here in one parting political shot my conviction that capitalism is not sustainable, at least as far as humans are concerned. Socialism was only a theory when\u00a0capitalism was already\u00a0a behavior and then afterwards an ideology which spawned theory itself. But in a world where\u00a0capitalism will soon leave humans behind as productive agents of profit and therefore as subjects of interest, the idea and the ideals of socialism remain relevant, if we want to keep humans around.<\/p>\n<p>Enough said on that point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site had a simple goal,\u00a0to open a space for my political ranting,\u00a0a sideline for me, hence the occasional nature of these pieces. They have become increasing occasional as time&#8217;s gone by and, the darkness of (the) age conspiring, my thoughts have erred off into diverse directions. So I am hoping to re-jig this page &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2019\/04\/16\/499\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parting Shot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,5,14],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-alterity","tag-capital","tag-marx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}