{"id":37761,"date":"2018-09-14T05:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T10:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37761"},"modified":"2018-09-14T05:54:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T10:54:40","slug":"how-to-keep-going-by-knowing-the-apocalypse-is-now-a-lesson-from-the-pig-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37761","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Going by Knowing the Apocalypse is Now: a Lesson From the Pig Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/14\/how-to-keep-going-by-knowing-the-apocalypse-is-now-a-lesson-from-the-pig-farm\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to Keep Going by Knowing the Apocalypse is Now: a Lesson From the Pig Farm<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">\u201cYet one thing I fight for, tooth and nail, all the time. And that is my bit of inward peace, where I am at one with myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">\u2013 D.H. Lawrence, \u201cWhat Would You Fight For?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing from shamanic healers for decades about \u201cconnecting to spirit,\u201d but their message sidesteps industrial capitalism\u2026 and open, public, radical changes flowing from spiritual work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\u2013 Dave Hanson, <a href=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/dave-hanson-shamanism-anarchy-and-the-end-of-the-world\"><i>Shamanism, Anarchy &amp; the End of the World<\/i><\/a>, Fifth Estate (2008)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\u2026the real reason why a European of bourgeois upbringing, even when he calls himself a Communist, cannot without a hard effort think of a working man as his equal.\u00a0 It is summed up in\u2026<i>The lower classes smell<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\u2013 George\u00a0 Orwell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1502435810\/counterpunchmaga\"><i>Wigan Pier<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Standard\">What D.H. Lawrence fought for, we should all fight for.\u00a0 Nothing is more wanting today,\u00a0 a time when strength is equated with \u201cmanly\u201d might and militarism, than\u00a0 individuals who fiercely protect the inner flame of their genius, who by their example can imply to the rest of us that we should all be so unmanly as to have each his own deeply experienced truth deemed worth fighting for.\u00a0\u00a0 D.H., unlike so many contemporary bourgeois practitioners of eastern and indigenous spiritual practices, knew that the\u00a0 equanimity necessary to develop character, integrity, individuality, vision and strength is not an entitlement, but a fight.\u00a0 Though many are the calls since the 60\u2019s to achieve inner serenity and clarity of mind \u2013 which sound pretty attractive to the average stressed and fearful man or woman today,\u00a0 few and strange to the ear are calls to be here now <i>in the catastrophic human reality \u2013 with its necessary political struggle \u2013 <\/i>an act of human\u00a0 presence<i><\/i>we should be fighting for, not fleeing from<i>.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Keep Going by Knowing the Apocalypse is Now: a Lesson From the Pig Farm \u201cYet one thing I fight for, tooth and nail, all the time. And that is my bit of inward peace, where I am at one with myself.\u201d \u2013 D.H. Lawrence, \u201cWhat Would You Fight For?\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing from [&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":[28,5493,21653],"class_list":["post-37761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-apocalypse","tag-counterpunch","tag-kim-c-domenico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761","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=37761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37762,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions\/37762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}