{"id":27134,"date":"2026-04-07T07:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27134"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:50:45","slug":"ulysses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27134","title":{"rendered":"Ulysses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 90%;\">\nI realized years (decades?) ago how foolish the injunction &#8222;If you&#8217;re not outraged you&#8217;re not paying attention&#8220; was. Perpetual outrage seems as ill-advised as perpetual despair, shock, horror, etc. A nurse friend years ago told me of the black humor she and her colleagues used to deal with the emotions they experienced working with intense pain, suffering, death. The sort of dark humor and heavy irony I constantly see on social media seems as off the mark of &#8222;fully human&#8220; attitudes as outrage.<\/p>\n<p>I am drawn to the ways in which classical poets and artists dealt with this question. We are told Odysseus suffered great torment and struggled to join the sirens with all the strength he had. How might he have conditioned himself such that he might have remained untied, ears open, sane?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/odysseus-thebes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"433\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/odysseus-thebes.jpg 593w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/odysseus-thebes-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27134-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ulysses-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ulysses-1.mp3\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ulysses-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized years (decades?) ago how foolish the injunction &#8222;If you&#8217;re not outraged you&#8217;re not paying attention&#8220; was. Perpetual outrage seems as ill-advised as perpetual despair, shock, horror, etc. A nurse friend years ago told me of the black humor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27134\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}