{"id":24931,"date":"2017-08-28T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24931"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:29:41","slug":"james-howard-kunstler-its-time-to-be-honest-with-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24931","title":{"rendered":"James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The ever-eloquent James Howard Kunstler\u00a0returns to our podcast this week to discuss the dangers of the ‘comprehensive dishonesty’ he observes in our culture today.<\/div>\n
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We occupy ourselves with distractions (e.g., the fear du jour <\/em>that our media continually manufactures) and diversions (e.g., our empty social media addiction), while ignoring the erosion of the essential systems around us. Making matters worse, the leaders we assume are focusing on these issues aren’t or are woefully out of their depth.<\/p>\n

It’s time for society to take a hard look in the mirror and be honest about the shortcoming it sees. Identifying them then opens the door to deciding what to do about them.<\/p>\n

Without the courage to be honest, we condemn ourselves to a failing status quo that likely has little remaining time left:<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re seeing is the result of behavior of people who have no idea what they’re doing. Most of the major systems that we rely on are entering a state of failure of one kind or another. And, of course, the larger problem is that they’re interlinked, and that their failures will be mutual and self-amplifying.<\/p>\n

These systems include the energy system that has powered industrial civilization, the oil and gas industries which you\u2019ve talked about a lot and I think that our listeners understand pretty well — although the finer points of it, like the ‘energy return on investment’, is something that\u2019s certainly not understood by the general public, or most of the officers in our government, and certainly not in the New York Times, Washington Post<\/em> or other major media outlets. They just don\u2019t get that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves The major systems our society relies on are failing The ever-eloquent James Howard Kunstler\u00a0returns to our podcast this week to discuss the dangers of the ‘comprehensive dishonesty’ he observes in our culture today. We occupy ourselves with distractions (e.g., the fear du jour that our […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[20,3647,246,263,1069,5405,449,3977,512,1921,2218,637,5228],"class_list":["post-24931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-agriculture","tag-culture","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-finance","tag-honesty","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-lying","tag-media","tag-new-york-times","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-politics","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931","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=24931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24932,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931\/revisions\/24932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}