{"id":367,"date":"2012-09-02T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/09\/02\/knowingness-vs-knowledge\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:28:00","slug":"knowingness-vs-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/09\/02\/knowingness-vs-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowingness vs Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/i-hate-snark.html?zx=3947410e7ca21f00\" target=\"_blank\">great post by John Barnes <\/a>on why he hates snark. Snark, as he means it, is not all sarcasm or wittiness&#8230;so not this:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZmJr8mJAsic\/UEPBPzZK0mI\/AAAAAAAACHM\/g2wjKfDKyiQ\/s1600\/Similes+are+like+metaphors.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZmJr8mJAsic\/UEPBPzZK0mI\/AAAAAAAACHM\/g2wjKfDKyiQ\/s1600\/Similes+are+like+metaphors.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0&#8230;rather, what he objects to is a certain kind of &#8220;knowingness,&#8221; like teenage dismissiveness in people who no longer have the excuse of teenagerhood: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Knowingness, of course, is not knowledge\u2014indeed, is the rebuttal of knowledge. Knowledge was what squares had, or thought they had, and they thought that it was the secret of life. Knowingness is a celebration of the conceit that what the squares knew, or thought they knew, was worthless.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Knowingness at twenty-five&#8230; is habitual laziness; it&#8217;s the guy who thinks he&#8217;s a polymath because he has two dismissive sentences about every subject.  It&#8217;s the woman who couldn&#8217;t follow the story of the movie, so she nods and says, &#8220;Great cinematography.&#8221;  It&#8217;s people called upon to be brave,  compassionate, or kind who aren&#8217;t, and afterward explain that they could have been but they weren&#8217;t going to let authority pressure them into it.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great post by John Barnes on why he hates snark. Snark, as he means it, is not all sarcasm or wittiness&#8230;so not this: \u00a0&#8230;rather, what he objects to is a certain kind of &#8220;knowingness,&#8221; like teenage dismissiveness in people who no longer have the excuse of teenagerhood: &#8220;Knowingness, of course, is not knowledge\u2014indeed, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,340,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-barnes","category-metaphors","category-similes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}