{"id":465,"date":"2014-10-22T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=465"},"modified":"2014-10-22T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:28:21","slug":"the-archdruid-report-a-pink-slip-for-the-progress-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"The Archdruid Report: A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2014\/10\/a-pink-slip-for-progress-fairy.html\">The Archdruid Report: A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">If you\u2019ve ever wondered just how powerfully collective thinking grips most members of our species\u2014including, by and large, those who most forcefully insist on the originality of their thinking\u2014I have an experiment to recommend: go out in public and advocate an idea about the future that isn\u2019t part of the conventional wisdom, and see what kind of reaction you field. If your experience is anything like mine, you\u2019ll get some anger, some argument, and some blank stares, but the most telling reaction will come from people who try to force what you\u2019re saying into the Procrustean bed of the conventional wisdom, no matter how thoroughly they have to stretch and chop what you\u2019ve said to make it fit.<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #063e3f; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">Now of course the project of this blog is guaranteed to field such reactions, since the ideas explored here don\u2019t just ignore the conventional wisdom, they fling it to the floor and dance on the crumpled remains. When I mention that I expect the decline and fall of industrial civilization to take centuries, accordingly, people take this to mean that I expect a smooth, untroubled descent. When I mention that I expect crisis before this decade is finished, in turn, people take this to mean that I expect industrial civilization to crash into ruin in the next few years. Some people, for that matter, slam back and forth from one of these presuppositions to another, as though they can\u2019t fit the concepts of prolonged decline and imminent crisis into their heads at the same moment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archdruid Report: A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy. If you\u2019ve ever wondered just how powerfully collective thinking grips most members of our species\u2014including, by and large, those who most forcefully insist on the originality of their thinking\u2014I have an experiment to recommend: go out in public and advocate an idea about the future [&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":[139,150,341,423],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-civilization","tag-collapse","tag-future","tag-industrial-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}