{"id":12603,"date":"2018-12-14T06:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12603"},"modified":"2018-12-10T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:53:57","slug":"the-meaning-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12603","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=12593\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12593\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12593\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=12593\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1543512746&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2981\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?resize=380%2C285\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?resize=250%2C188&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2981.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>&#8220;Most people need to find meaning within structures they do not create.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/experts\/william-a-galston\/\"><strong>William Galston<\/strong><\/a><!--more-->This short quotation shows the limit of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs\">Maslow&#8217;s Hierarchy of Needs<\/a>. Self actualization is to a large extent an elitist conceit. Most people find their meaning in life in small groups that they don&#8217;t have to organize.<\/p>\n<p>Galston is with the Brookings Institution. His recent book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anti-Pluralism-Populist-Liberal-Democracy-Politics\/dp\/0300228929\">Anti-Pluralism.\u00a0<\/a>I might read it just to see the intellectual arguments against the populist tide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most people need to find meaning within structures they do not create.&#8221; William Galston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[80,466],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-politics","tag-books","tag-populism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12604,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}