{"id":937,"date":"2004-03-09T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/03\/09\/building-on-negatives\/"},"modified":"2004-03-09T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T16:44:44","slug":"building-on-negatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/03\/09\/building-on-negatives","title":{"rendered":"Building On Negatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/bc\/2004\/002\/2.10.html\">Food Porn<\/a>, Susan Wise Bauer writes about the ten\u00adden\u00adcy of mod\u00adern authors to cri\u00adtique cul\u00adture with\u00adout offer\u00ading a viable alter\u00adna\u00adtive: <i>The cov\u00ader-mod\u00adel ide\u00adal is warped and twist\u00aded, but they can\u2019t man\u00adage to unwarp it. I\u2019m remind\u00aded of J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s orcs, who (accord\u00ading to the Sil\u00admar\u00adil\u00adlion) were mod\u00adeled on elves by the dark pow\u00aders; they were fash\u00adioned \u201cby slow arts of cru\u00adel\u00adty \u2026 in envy and mock\u00adery,\u201d because dark pow\u00aders can only warp and twist, not cre\u00adate afresh. If you\u2019ve nev\u00ader seen an elf, and you try to work back\u00adwards from an orc to its mod\u00adel, you\u2019re darn well not going to end up with Orlan\u00addo Bloom.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t build on nega\u00adtion alone.<\/p>\n<p>How often is our plan for being good to stop being bad? In the Bib\u00adli\u00adcal per\u00adspec\u00adtive, holi\u00adness is an addi\u00adtion equa\u00adtion, not a sub\u00adtrac\u00adtion equa\u00adtion. We don\u2019t mere\u00adly seek to erad\u00adi\u00adcate vices such as gos\u00adsip and lying; on the con\u00adtrary, we active\u00adly cul\u00adti\u00advate virtues such as love, joy, patience, and self-con\u00adtrol.<\/p>\n<p>Just some quick thoughts inspired by an absolute\u00adly bril\u00adliant Tolkien ref\u00ader\u00adence in an oth\u00ader\u00adwise unre\u00adlat\u00aded arti\u00adcle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Food Porn, Susan Wise Bauer writes about the ten\u00adden\u00adcy of mod\u00adern authors to cri\u00adtique cul\u00adture with\u00adout offer\u00ading a viable alter\u00adna\u00adtive: The cov\u00ad\u00ader-mod\u00ad\u00adel ide\u00adal is warped and twist\u00aded, but they can\u2019t man\u00adage to unwarp it. I\u2019m remind\u00aded of J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s orcs, who (accord\u00ading to the Sil\u00admar\u00adil\u00adlion) were mod\u00adeled on elves by the dark \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/03\/09\/building-on-negatives\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cBuild\u00ading On Neg\u00ada\u00adtives\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}