{"id":4710,"date":"2015-04-02T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2015-06-28T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T15:10:11","slug":"we-do-not-see-things-as-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/we-do-not-see-things-as-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"We do not see things as they are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with the &#8220;antis&#8221; &#8212; anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-gun, anti-women, anti-science, anti-South, anti-sex, etc. &#8212; who seem so devoted to their agendas of hatred, ignorance, and irrational fear, I am reminded of a line from <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate-program.amazon.com\/gp\/associates\/network\/build-links\/text\/simple-thispagelink.html?ie=UTF8&#038;assoc_ss_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fmn%2Flanding%2FB000AQ6NF0%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1428027209%26ref_%3Dsr_tc_2_0%26sr%3D1-2-ent\">Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Seduction of the Minotaur&#8221; (echoing a <a href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2014\/03\/09\/as-we-are\/\">much older idea<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><strong>We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate-program.amazon.com\/gp\/associates\/network\/build-links\/text\/simple-thispagelink.html?ie=UTF8&#038;assoc_ss_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fmn%2Flanding%2FB000AQ6NF0%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1428027209%26ref_%3Dsr_tc_2_0%26sr%3D1-2-ent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71%2B-OZLGZSL.jpg\" alt=\"Seduction of the Minotaur\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with the &#8220;antis&#8221; &#8212; anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-gun, anti-women, anti-science, anti-South, anti-sex, etc. &#8212; who seem so devoted to their agendas of hatred, ignorance, and irrational fear, I am reminded of a line from Ana\u00c3\u00afs Nin&#8216;s &#8220;Seduction of the Minotaur&#8221; (echoing a much older idea): We do not see things as they are, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-prose","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We do not see things as they are - Blackmoor Vituperative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/we-do-not-see-things-as-they-are\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We do not see things as they are - Blackmoor Vituperative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When confronted with the &#8220;antis&#8221; 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