{"id":442,"date":"2014-10-22T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=442"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:43:14","slug":"the-last-days-of-the-growth-story-the-automatic-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"The Last Days Of The Growth Story &#8211; The Automatic Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/the-last-days-of-the-growth-story\/\">The Last Days Of The Growth Story &#8211; The Automatic Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; color: #528f6c; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/14581?size=_original#caption\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px none initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RearWindow1936.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Dorothea Lange\u00a0<b style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Rear window tenement dwelling, 133 Avenue D, NYC\u00a0<\/b>June 1936<br \/>\n<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I am thinking about the similarities between a financial crisis and for instance a family crisis, the death of a loved one or close friend, a divorce, or a personal bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And I wonder why in the case of our recent (aka current) financial crisis, we allow nothing to enter our communications, and our train of thought, but the idea of recovery and a return to growth. Has everyone always reacted that way after earlier financial crises \u2013 history is full of them -, or is something else going on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Why do we insist on returning to something we once had, even if we have no way of knowing whether we can ever return? Why don\u2019t we focus \u2013 more \u2013 on what lies ahead, instead of what is behind us? Is it because we loved what we had so much? Or is something else going on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Days Of The Growth Story &#8211; The Automatic Earth. Dorothea Lange\u00a0Rear window tenement dwelling, 133 Avenue D, NYC\u00a0June 1936 I am thinking about the similarities between a financial crisis and for instance a family crisis, the death of a loved one or close friend, a divorce, or a personal bankruptcy. And I wonder [&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],"tags":[180,181,312,391],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-crises","tag-crisis","tag-financial-crisis","tag-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}