{"id":19,"date":"2021-01-04T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/from-the-particular-to-the-general\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:04:00","slug":"from-the-particular-to-the-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/from-the-particular-to-the-general\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Particular to the General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mole has once again relearned an old lesson\u00a0\u2014 &#8220;<a title=\"Blake's Auguries of Innocence\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Pickering_Manuscript\/Auguries_of_Innocence\">to see a world in a grain of sand<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 in his usual way:\u00a0 get drawn in by the specific, then twig to the wider idea.\u00a0 This time the context was the <a title=\"transcript of episode 7 of Containers\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/containers\/episode-7-the-lost-docks-7734122032c1\">seventh episode<\/a> of <a title=\"Alexis Madrigal's website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alexismadrigal.com\/\">Alexis Madrigal<\/a>&#8216;s podcast <a title=\"Containers podcast on Soundcloud\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/containersfmg\">Containers<\/a> and the text was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gh gi dd gj b gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he cv ea\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Every time I hear that clip from Frank, I can feel my heart swelling with this vision of a utopia that seems finely tuned for me. There is economic justice, racial solidarity, rich culture, opportunity for anyone willing to work. Right here in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gh gi dd gj b gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he cv ea\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"gh gi dd gj b gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he cv ea\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">But nostalgia is a trap. Nostalgia blinds us to the failings of the past\u00a0\u2026 and to the potential of our own time. We are alive now and the best we can do with the romance of the past is distill the values and visions that intoxicate us into principles for the future that we want to make.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wise words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mole has once again relearned an old lesson\u00a0\u2014 &#8220;to see a world in a grain of sand&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 in his usual way:\u00a0 get drawn in by the specific, then twig to the wider idea.\u00a0 This time the context was the seventh episode of Alexis Madrigal&#8216;s podcast Containers and the text was this: Every time I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/from-the-particular-to-the-general\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Particular to the General<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mole-end","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}