{"id":17964,"date":"2016-02-18T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17964"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:36:17","slug":"retrotopia-back-to-what-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17964","title":{"rendered":"Retrotopia: Back To What Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2016\/02\/retrotopia-back-to-what-worked.html\" target=\"_blank\">Retrotopia: Back To What Worked<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This is the fifteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator visits another school, catches the flu, and has his first encounter with the Lakeland Republic\u2019s health care system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>I made some phone calls the next morning and got my schedule sorted out for the next few days. Now that President Meeker had gotten things sorted out with the Restos, I had a lot of things to discuss with the Lakeland government, and I knew they\u2019d want to know as much as possible about what was going to change following the election back home.<\/p>\n<p>By quarter to nine I was climbing the marble stairs in front of the Capitol, passing a midsized crowd of wide-eyed schoolchildren on a field trip. The morning went into detailed discussions with government officials\u2014Melanie Berger from Meeker\u2019s staff, Stuart Macallan from the State Department, and Jaya Patel from the Department of Commerce\u2014about the potential reset in relations between their country and mine now that Barfield and the Dem-Reps were out on their collective ear. They were frankly better prepared for the discussion than I was; I\u2019d taken the precaution of printing out the position papers from Montrose\u2019s transition team before I got on the train in Pittsburgh, and reviewed them the night before, but it was pretty obvious that the Lakelanders weren\u2019t used to looking things up moment by moment on a veepad and I was.<\/p>\n<p>We had lunch downstairs in the congressional dining room, a big pleasant space with tall windows letting in the autumn sunlight, and then it was up to Meeker\u2019s office and a long afternoon talking with the President.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrotopia: Back To What Worked This is the fifteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator visits another school, catches the flu, and has his first encounter with the Lakeland Republic\u2019s health care system&#8230; *********** I made some phone calls [&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":[7],"tags":[3463,311,341,1758,10693,8722],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-fiction","tag-future","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-prediction","tag-retrotopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964","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=17964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17965,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions\/17965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}