{"id":271,"date":"2024-09-17T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=271"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:35:24","slug":"trifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Superiority&#8217; of Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[they] struggled with one another in envy, for there the power of evil rules, and <strong>envying about trifles<\/strong>.<br><em>Ascension of Isaiah<\/em> [After being escorted to the seventh heaven, Isaiah witnesses the Christ descending into the world in which we live which he describes here.]<br><br>&#8220;To me, in this our life,&#8221; says the professor, which is as internecine warfare with the Timespirit, other warfare seems questionable. Has thou in any way a Contention with thy brother? I advise thee, think well what the meaning thereof is. If thou gauge it to the bottom, it is simply this: &#8220;Fellow, see! thou art taking more than thy share of Happiness in the world, something from my share; which, by the Heavens, thou shalt not; nay, I will fight thee rather.&#8217; &#8211;Alas, and the whole lot to be divided is such a beggarly matter, truly a &#8216;feast of Shells,&#8217; for the substance has bee spilled out&#8211; not enough to quench one Appetite; and the collective human species clutching at them! &#8211;Can we not, in all such cases, rather say: &#8216;take it, thou too-ravenous individual; take that pitiful additional fraction of a share, which I reckoned mine, but which thou wantest; take it with a blessing&#8211;would to Heaven I had enough for thee!&#8217;<br><br>Thoma Carlyle, <em>Sartor Resartus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[they] struggled with one another in envy, for there the power of evil rules, and envying about trifles.Ascension of Isaiah [After being escorted to the seventh heaven, Isaiah witnesses the Christ descending into the world in which we live which he describes here.] &#8220;To me, in this our life,&#8221; says the professor, which is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}