{"id":56356,"date":"2021-01-07T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56356"},"modified":"2021-01-07T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:13:56","slug":"is-covid-19-providing-cover-for-jay-hansons-society-of-sloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56356","title":{"rendered":"Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson\u2019s Society of\u00a0Sloth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/un-denial.com\/2021\/01\/05\/is-covid-19-providing-cover-for-jay-hansons-society-of-sloth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson\u2019s Society of\u00a0Sloth?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13486\" src=\"https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg?w=435\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 85vw, 435px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg 435w, https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg?w=113 113w, https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg?w=226 226w\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"13486\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/un-denial.com\/2021\/01\/05\/is-covid-19-providing-cover-for-jay-hansons-society-of-sloth\/jay-hanson-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"435,577\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jay Hanson\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg?w=226\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/undenial.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/jay-hanson.jpg?w=435\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Gail Tverberg made a comment today that rings true and motivated me to write about something I\u2019ve been mulling for a while\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfiniteworld.com\/2020\/12\/23\/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong\/comment-page-24\/#comment-274042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ourfiniteworld.com\/2020\/12\/23\/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong\/comment-page-24\/#comment-274042<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>I think the reaction to COVID-19 is part of how a self-organizing system works. People were looking for a reason to cut back\/shut down. The illness provided this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not believe in most conspiracy theories, but I do believe that crises are frequently used to implement plans that would be impossible without a crisis. The responses to Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction, 9\/11, and the 2008 GFC are good modern examples.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the virus has provided (mostly subconscious) cover for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>citizens tired of commuting 2 hours a day to a stressful job so they could keep up with their neighbor\u2019s latest unnecessary status symbol purchase<\/li>\n<li>citizens who intuited they should reduce discretionary spending and pay down credit card debt, which interestingly declined in 2020, rather than increasing as it did during the 2008 GFC<\/li>\n<li>leaders that sensed we should voluntarily throttle back, because we\u2019d soon be forced by limits to growth<\/li>\n<li>leaders that understood we needed to rapidly reduce CO2 emissions, and the only way to achieve this is by contracting the economy<\/li>\n<li>leaders that needed an excuse to restrict freedoms to maintain civil order in preparation for a significant contraction of our energy\/economic system<\/li>\n<li>central banks that understood we had hit limits to growth and that needed an excuse for massive corporate bailouts to prevent a catastrophic economic collapse, and for MMT to keep citizens fed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps this helps to explain why our responses to the virus have not been intelligent or optimal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>effective means of containing the spread were ignored or procrastinated in the crucial early days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson\u2019s Society of\u00a0Sloth? Gail Tverberg made a comment today that rings true and motivated me to write about something I\u2019ve been mulling for a while\u2026 https:\/\/ourfiniteworld.com\/2020\/12\/23\/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong\/comment-page-24\/#comment-274042 I think the reaction to COVID-19 is part of how a self-organizing system works. People were looking for a reason to cut back\/shut [&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":[1233,27395,3197,607,30676],"class_list":["post-56356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-gail-tverberg","tag-jay-hanson","tag-overshoot","tag-pandemic","tag-undenial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56356","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=56356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56357,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56356\/revisions\/56357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}