{"id":29149,"date":"2017-12-27T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29149"},"modified":"2017-12-27T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:20:06","slug":"surviving-the-future-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29149","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the Future in America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surviving the Future in America<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nonetheless, the tide is flowing.\u00a0 The direction is mapped, very simply, in those little hexagons of the Wheel of Life.\u00a0 Localization stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but in has the decisive argument on its side that there will be no alternative.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013David Fleming<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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To recline on a stump of thorn in the central valley of Egdon, between afternoon and night, as now, where the eye could reach nothing of the world outside the summits and shoulders of heathland which filled the whole circumference of its glance, and to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.<\/em>\u2013Thomas Hardy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recently had the pleasure of reading Shaun Chamberlain\u2019s selections from David Fleming\u2019s Lean Logic<\/em>, organized into an indispensable volume entitled Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy<\/em>\u2014a book, I should say, that sits on the top of my \u201cmust read\u201d list for this year.\u00a0 As I was reading, my mind kept wandering back to my multiple trips to Europe as a child growing up in a Europhile academic family (my father was a historian of ancient and medieval science).\u00a0 What, I started asking myself, was the great lure of Europe for Americans, and why was I wondering about it right now?<\/p>\n

My most memorable moments were of course filtered through my parents\u2019 commentary and responses, and subsequent slide shows, but are personally vivid nonetheless.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Surviving the Future in America Nonetheless, the tide is flowing.\u00a0 The direction is mapped, very simply, in those little hexagons of the Wheel of Life.\u00a0 Localization stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but in has the decisive argument on its side that there will be no alternative.\u00a0\u2013David Fleming To recline on a […]<\/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":[13546,341,17654,6665,17655],"class_list":["post-29149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-erik-lindberg","tag-future","tag-future-america","tag-resilience-org","tag-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149","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=29149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29150,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149\/revisions\/29150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}