{"id":1390,"date":"2012-06-02T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T18:32:14","slug":"cornel-west-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Cornel West &#8211; Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_47787\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDh-4MfasaA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The language of failure and disappointment, disenchantment, disillusionment, is a little bit Romantic for me\u2026. Why not have a sense of gratitude that you\u2019re able to do as much as you did? That you\u2019re able to love as much and think as much and play as much? Why think you need the whole thing? Where\u2019s the expectation that you need the whole thing coming from?\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America\u2019s a very fragile, democratic experiment predicated on the disposition of the lands of indigenous people and the enslavement of African people and the subjugation of workers and women and the marginalization of gays and lesbians. It has great potential, but this notion that somehow we had it all or ever will have it all, that\u2019s got to go, you\u2019ve got to push it to the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And once you push all that to the side, then it tends to evacuate the language of disappointment and the language of failure. And you say, OK, how much have we done? How have we been able to do it? Can we do more? In some situations you can\u2019t do more. It\u2019s like trying to break-dance at seventy-five, you can\u2019t do it anymore! You were a master at sixteen; it\u2019s over! You can\u2019t make love at eighty the way you did at twenty, so what? Time is real!&#8221;<br> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornel_West\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Cornel West<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clips from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1279083\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Examined Life<\/a>&#8221; by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2025391\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astra Taylor<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zwmum5_ofU\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The language of failure and disappointment, disenchantment, disillusionment, is a little bit Romantic for me\u2026. Why not have a sense of gratitude that you\u2019re able to do as much as you did? That you\u2019re able to love as much and think as much and play as much? Why think you need the whole thing? Where\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1390\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cornel West &#8211; Truth<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,35,24,41,13,15,12,26,5,32,11,21,42,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness","category-consciousness","category-existence","category-experience","category-film","category-identity","category-linguistics","category-love","category-nature","category-perception","category-philosophy","category-psychonaut","category-reality","category-society","category-the-unknown"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}