{"id":33539,"date":"2017-08-05T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33539"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:20:38","slug":"counterfeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/counterfeit\/","title":{"rendered":"COUNTERFEIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">The two towers signify monopoly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The capitalistic system signifies war.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Skyscrapers, vessels, ignore the value of transcendence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The emancipated bound to competitive democracy as media\/fashion\/information take stock of Man\/God\/Progress.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">An unprincipled monstrosity enlightening the moralistic position shifting to exploit us. A capital system taking\/shoving\/pulling to impose rules..<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Power, too!<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">We are seeking the restoration of real as it escapes us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">We are fleeing charm and meaning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">We are confusing the counterfeit with the real&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">And so&#8230; Artifice is at the core of reality. Abstract and non-figurative. Art itself is dead because<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">(but not limited to)<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">an impregnated aesthetic. Inseparable from its own confused structure mistook for its own image.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Reality will no longer take the time to take on the appearances of reality.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">It will only capture the dream even before it takes the form of a dream.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Schizophrenic vertigo, in repetition, repress nothing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Metonymy has absorbed the universe, cooling its digitality, winning us over with simulation as reality wins over pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two towers signify monopoly. The capitalistic system signifies war. Skyscrapers, vessels, ignore the value of transcendence. The emancipated bound to competitive democracy as media\/fashion\/information take stock of Man\/God\/Progress. An unprincipled monstrosity enlightening the moralistic position shifting to exploit us. A capital system taking\/shoving\/pulling to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33542,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions\/33542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}