{"id":961,"date":"2014-06-07T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=961"},"modified":"2022-12-28T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:04:28","slug":"twoideas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/twoideas\/","title":{"rendered":"twoideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It began to seem that one would have to <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/dynamicconstellation\/\">hold in the mind forever two ideas<\/a> which seemed to be in <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/speakwhatyouthink\">opposition<\/a>. The first idea was acceptance, the <a title=\"falsestructureiscollapsing\" href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/falsestructureiscollapsing\/\">acceptance<\/a>, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/beforeispokeofclearperiods\">light<\/a> of this idea, it goes without saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/tobeseenastheearthisseen\">injustice is a commonplace<\/a>. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/whensomeonehasnotknownlove\">power<\/a>: that one must never, in one&#8217;s own life, accept these <a title=\"iusedmybelief\" href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/iusedmybelief\/\">injustices<\/a> as commonplace but must fight them with all one&#8217;s strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/database\/baldwin_j.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Baldwin<\/a>. Notes of a Native Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}