{"id":3284,"date":"2005-04-21T18:55:28","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/21\/better-living-through-apathy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:08:40","slug":"better-living-through-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/21\/better-living-through-apathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Living Through Apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8413,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.somethingpositive.net\\\/sp04212005.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20191227195428\\\/https:\\\/\\\/somethingpositive.net\\\/sp04212005.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:09:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 20:01:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:24:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 17:26:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 17:26:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As cynical as it may be, I think there just might be something to Davan&#8217;s theory in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingpositive.net\/sp04212005.shtml\" title=\"Something Positive: The New Girl, Part 3\">today&#8217;s Something Positive strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Peejee<\/strong>: You don&#8217;t really care about this date, do you?<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Davan<\/strong>: Not even an ounce. If I did, I probably wouldn&#8217;t be going on it.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Peejee<\/strong>: Care to explain?<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Davan<\/strong>: When you&#8217;re involved with someone else, people find you attractive. It&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t care about attracting someone else. You&#8217;re complacent, and therefore you&#8217;re actually being yourself.<\/p>\n<p>  After Branwen, I&#8217;ve just not been interested in trying to find anyone else. As long as I maintain that same level of &#8216;it honestly doesn&#8217;t matter to me if you live or die,&#8217; women will find me attractive on some level. The minute I show any interest, it&#8217;s over. Remember that. The key to happiness is disinterest mingled with mild contempt.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=You Are My Sunshine%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'You Are My Sunshine' on the iTMS\">You Are My Sunshine<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DCash, Johnny\/Dylan, Bob%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Cash, Johnny\/Dylan, Bob on the iTMS\">Cash, Johnny\/Dylan, Bob<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=CBS Nashville Studio Session%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for CBS Nashville Studio Session on the iTMS\">CBS Nashville Studio Session<\/a><\/em> (1969, 3:27).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cynical as it may be, I think there just might be something to Davan&#8217;s theory in today&#8217;s Something Positive strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6,16],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}