{"id":43676,"date":"2019-02-08T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43676"},"modified":"2019-02-08T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T23:04:31","slug":"dreams-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43676","title":{"rendered":"Dreams Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/dreams-die-hard\/\">Dreams Die Hard<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somewhere between the fevered Zzzz\u2019s of American Dreaming and the blinding shock of being \u201cwoke,\u201d there is a recognition that an awful lot about contemporary life is not working and can\u2019t go on. At the bottom of this discontent is the mistaken notion that the unwind of modernity can be arrested or mitigated by \u201csmart\u201d and \u201cgreen\u201d this-and-that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disappointment over it will be epic when we discover that the laws of physics override the bright ideas of politicians. America has been blowing green smoke up its own ass for years, promoting oxymorons such as \u201cgreen skyscrapers\u201d and \u201cclean energy,\u201d but the truth is we\u2019re not going to run WalMart, Suburbia, DisneyWorld, and the interstate highway system on any combination of wind, solar, geothermal, recycled Fry-Max, and&nbsp;<em>dark matter<\/em>. We\u2019re just running too much stuff at too great a scale for too many people. We\u2019ve blown through the capital already and replaced it with IOUs that will never be honored, and we\u2019re caught in an entropy trap of diminishing returns from all the work-arounds we\u2019re desperately trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all that, there are actually some sound proposals in the mostly delusional matrix of the Green New Deal promoted by foxy front-person AOC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Revoke corporate personhood by amending our Constitution to make clear that corporations are not persons and money is not speech<\/em>. Right on, I say, though they have not quite articulated the argument which is that corporations, unlike persons, have no vested allegiance to the public interest, but rather a legal obligation solely to shareholders and their boards-of-directors.<\/li><li><em>Replace partisan oversight of elections with non-partisan election commissions.\u00a0<\/em>A no-brainer.<\/li><li><em>Replace big money control of election campaigns with full public financing and free and equal access to the airwaves<\/em>. Quite cheap and worth every penny.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams Die Hard Somewhere between the fevered Zzzz\u2019s of American Dreaming and the blinding shock of being \u201cwoke,\u201d there is a recognition that an awful lot about contemporary life is not working and can\u2019t go on. At the bottom of this discontent is the mistaken notion that the unwind of modernity can be arrested or [&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":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[14964,209,23450,449,827],"class_list":["post-43676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-diminishing-returns","tag-green-new-deal","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43676","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=43676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43677,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43676\/revisions\/43677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}