{"id":11312,"date":"2015-08-21T07:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2015-08-21T07:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:52:41","slug":"relying-on-the-government-will-make-climate-change-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11312","title":{"rendered":"Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/08\/relying-on-the-government-will-make-climate-change-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett\u2019s\u00a0<i>Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy<\/i>\u00a0and Viktor Frankl\u2019s<i>\u00a0From Death Camp to Existentialism<\/i>\u00a0(later republished under the title\u00a0<i>Man\u2019s Search for Meaning<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>American psychologists were being introduced to the movement by a brilliant anthology entitled\u00a0<i>Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology<\/i>, edited by Rollo May and others.\u00a0 The 1958 International Congress of Psychotherapy chose existential psychology as its theme.<\/p>\n<p>And the twentieth-century existentialists themselves were all still alive:\u00a0 Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Martin Buber,\u00a0Gabriel Marcel and Paul Tillich.<\/p>\n<p>Today all six men are dead and, from all appearances, so is the movement for which they were known.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s a shame. Especially if you care about climate change and peak oil.<\/p>\n<h3>Do it yourself<\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s why we need existentialism so much today: It encourages people to listen to their own conscience and to take action themselves. It\u2019s against cynicism and quietism.<\/p>\n<p>A central proposition of existentialism is that the most important consideration for individuals is that they are individuals \u2014 independently acting and responsible, conscious beings \u2014 rather than an\u00a0amalgamation of the labels, roles, stereotypes, definitions, or other preconceived categories into which they might fit.<\/p>\n<p>The actual life of individuals is what constitutes their true essence. Thus, human beings,\u00a0through their own consciousness, create their own values. People are defined by how they act and are, thus, responsible for their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom, from an existential perspective, cannot be separated from responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Existentialism teaches that we alone are responsible for our choices and the consequences of those choices.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/08\/relying-on-the-government-will-make-climate-change-worse\/#sthash.NQc1gwK8.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett\u2019s\u00a0Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy\u00a0and Viktor Frankl\u2019s\u00a0From Death Camp to Existentialism\u00a0(later republished under the title\u00a0Man\u2019s Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2581,141,6638,8343,379,617,5406,5970],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-action","tag-climate-change","tag-consciousness","tag-existentialism","tag-government","tag-peak-oil","tag-responsibility","tag-transition-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11313,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}