{"id":308,"date":"2007-11-29T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T03:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T03:15:53","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Who am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the question &quot;Do you know what you are?&quot; Frank Zappa answered: &quot;You are what you is&#8230; You ain&#8217;t what you not. So see what you got&#8230;&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeklyrics.com\/lyrics\/Frank-Zappa\/You-Are-What-You-Is.html\">etc&#8230;<\/a>The funny thing is that these days the answer is shifting towards what you (we) are not and how we can get what we don&#8217;t have. Reminds me of another song called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdownload.com\/tuxedomoon-desire-lyrics.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Desire<\/a> by Tuxedomoon: &quot;Makes you go where you can&#8217;t go. Makes you want what you can&#8217;t have, Desire.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I am not trying to be the anti-capitalist moralist here. However these thoughts came into my mind after seeing this commercial in the train the other day:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/071127_1355~01(1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are people fueled by a new form of self-expressionism, something that requires a great number of credit cards? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbara_Kruger\">I shop therefore I am?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbara_Kruger\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/180px-Kruger_ishop.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the question &quot;Do you know what you are?&quot; Frank Zappa answered: &quot;You are what you is&#8230; You ain&#8217;t what you not. So see what you got&#8230;&quot; etc&#8230;The funny thing is that these days the answer is shifting towards what you (we) are not and how we can get what we don&#8217;t have. Reminds me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workvitamins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}