{"id":24215,"date":"2012-02-15T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenewinquiry-contemporary-strivers-lack-the-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:12:17","slug":"thenewinquiry-contemporary-strivers-lack-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenewinquiry-contemporary-strivers-lack-the-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24215 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenewinquiry-contemporary-strivers-lack-the-2\/attachment\/24217\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lze7unInsf1qa30ixo1_500-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.tumblr.com\/post\/17611692326\/contemporary-strivers-lack-the-tools-that-people\">thenewinquiry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Contemporary strivers lack the tools that people in  the past used to differentiate themselves from their  peers: They live in a post-virtue, post-religion, post-aristocracy age. They lack the skills or inspiration  to create something of genuine worth. They  have been conditioned to find all but the most  conventional and compromised politics worthy  of contempt. They are denied even the cold comfort  of identification with career, as they cope with the  deadening tedium and meaninglessness of work  by calling attention to it over and over again, as if  acknowledging it will elevate them above it.<\/p>\n<p>Into this vacuum comes a relief that is profoundly  rational in context: the self as consumer and critic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Freddie DeBoer, \u201cThe Resentment Machine\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/publications\/magazines\/\">The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 1: Precarity<\/a><\/em> ($2)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thenewinquiry: Contemporary strivers lack the tools that people in the past used to differentiate themselves from their peers: They live in a post-virtue, post-religion, post-aristocracy age. They lack the skills or inspiration to create something of genuine worth. They have been conditioned to find all but the most conventional and compromised politics worthy of contempt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24220,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215\/revisions\/24220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}