{"id":61239,"date":"2018-10-28T21:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61239"},"modified":"2018-10-28T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T21:13:18","slug":"sunday-surprise-jeeps-with-souls-telepathic-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61239","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise &#8212; jeeps with souls, telepathic cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212;  are the shows on TV the medium&#8217;s waking life, and advertisements its dreams? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ihmPC-7Lew\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My mom was Freedom, and my dad, Adventure. They baptized me in mud and christened me on rock, so I got tougher, they fostered a love of learning so I got smarter, taught me to appreciate the finer things in life sp I became more civilized and refined. Thank you, Freedom and Adventure, for giving me this rugged, civilized, wandering soul..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2AFpP4wASA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.. we&#8217;re helping to give cars the power to read your mind from anywhere ..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>A Jeep is machinery, an engine, a tool, a prosthetic &#8212; but now it has a soul &#8212; how was that achieved. Is it a shiny new species of Golem? Did someone breathe the Name into it? And the car that Dell is teaching to read minds &#8212; does it too have a soul?<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate Dell, am now on my second or fifth Dell laptop, and I once rolled a Jeep over, and myself and senior son escaped with barely a scratch between the pair of us. It  was one of those California days, the road slick with first rain, and I wrote 150 pages for  DC charitable NGO as court-required penance.<\/p>\n<p>My intent is not to knock (diss) Dell or Jeep &#8212; in fact I appreciate their products and admire the skills displayed by their advertising agencies &#8212; but simply to point up the quasi-spiritual ways in which these ads present cars.  There are good insights into humanity, in fact, to be found in these depictions of machines. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to (human) real-life <\/strong>civilized, wandering souls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; are the shows on TV the medium&#8217;s waking life, and advertisements its dreams? ] . My mom was Freedom, and my dad, Adventure. They baptized me in mud and christened me on rock, so I got tougher, they fostered a love of learning so I got smarter, taught me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[734,526,1384,1731,627,260,1732,436,946,1521,1005,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-charles-cameron","category-civility","category-cyborg","category-doublequotes","category-freedom","category-prosthetic","category-psychology","category-sunday-surprise","category-transport","category-tv","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61239"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61302,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61239\/revisions\/61302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}