{"id":942,"date":"2015-11-20T20:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2015-11-20T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:25:51","slug":"the-enlightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"THE ENLIGHTENED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-941\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2053.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2053\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2053.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2053-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2053-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the horrific attacks in Paris last week, after attacks in Egypt, Beirut and Mali, the West went after its enemy &#8211; irrationality. \u00a0It feels like shadowboxing. Every day the complexity of reality retreated. The lust for answers, for clarity, for applying reason to deep conditions feels simplistic, self-defeating, annulling. Terrorists have simplistic, quick-fix, deadly fantasies; but we also put ourselves in collective traps of pseudo-reason that flattens out reality.<\/p>\n<p>Artists can at least negotiate the tensions and pain of where we find ourselves. In the deep mourning for victims and loss of openness, I wrote the following poem. I used the double image of light &#8211; the failures of the Enlightenment, the harsh searchlights of surveillance and an us. v. them authoritarianism that has trouble turning light on itself.<\/p>\n<p><u>The Enlightened <\/u><\/p>\n<p>Are flushing out darkness.<\/p>\n<p>They have reasoned down<\/p>\n<p>the dome of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>There is only starry light, not starry<\/p>\n<p>night. Eyes refuse to close,<\/p>\n<p>we are a dreamless troubled lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our nerves catch every<\/p>\n<p>morsel of bread tossed to us,<\/p>\n<p>sick from being overfed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we are starving, hungry still.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love me in the cellar<\/p>\n<p>behind the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Burrow deep so I may remember<\/p>\n<p>the questing of bells, the touch of my<\/p>\n<p>own hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the horrific attacks in Paris last week, after attacks in Egypt, Beirut and Mali, the West went after its enemy &#8211; irrationality. \u00a0It feels like shadowboxing. Every day the complexity of reality retreated. The lust for answers, for clarity, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=942\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[348,351,353,131,352,130],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paris-attacks","tag-enlightenment","tag-isis","tag-paris","tag-terror","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}