{"id":1891,"date":"2014-11-21T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2014-11-21T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:49:37","slug":"the-archdruid-report-facts-values-and-dark-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2014\/11\/facts-values-and-dark-beer.html\">The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">Over the last eight and a half years, since I first began writing essays on\u00a0<i>The Archdruid Report<\/i>, I\u2019ve fielded a great many questions about what motivates this blog\u2019s project. Some of those questions have been abusive, and some of them have been clueless; some of them have been thoughtful enough to deserve an answer, either in the comments or as a blog post in its own right. Last week brought one of that last category. It came from one of my European readers, Ervino Cus, and it read as follows:<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #063e3f; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAll considered (the amount of weapons\u2014personal and of MD\u2014around today; the population numbers; the environmental pollution; the level of lawlessness we are about to face; the difficulty to have a secure form of life in the coming years; etc.) plus the \u2018low\u2019 technical level of possible development of the future societies (I mean: no more space flight? no more scientific discovery about the ultimate structure of the Universe? no genetic engineering to modify the human genome?) the question I ask to myself is: why bother?<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cSeriously: why one should wish to plan for his\/her long term survival in the future that await us? Why, when all goes belly up, don&#8217;t join the first warlord band available and go off with a bang, pillaging and raping till one drops dead?<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer. Over the last eight and a half years, since I first began writing essays on\u00a0The Archdruid Report, I\u2019ve fielded a great many questions about what motivates this blog\u2019s project. Some of those questions have been abusive, and some of them have been clueless; some of them have [&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":[150,423,1328,1327,1326],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-industrial-civilization","tag-subjectivity","tag-value-judgement","tag-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}