{"id":62169,"date":"2022-03-09T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62169"},"modified":"2022-03-09T20:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:42:15","slug":"the-revolt-of-the-imagination-part-three-co-creating-the-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62169","title":{"rendered":"The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosophia.net\/the-revolt-of-the-imagination-part-three-co-creating-the-future\/\">The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As I write these words, the Russo-Ukrainian war has raged for a week.\u00a0 To a great many people, crises like these make the theme of my recent posts here\u2014the potential of the human imagination\u2014seem wholly irrelevant.\u00a0 That\u2019s a common mistake, but it\u2019s still a mistake. To begin with, let\u2019s please remember that wars and the political and economic crises that drive them are normal parts of human experience.\u00a0 Granted, for the last three quarters of a century there\u2019s been very little open warfare in the industrial world, but in the nonindustrial world\u2014which is after all where most human beings live\u2014insurgencies, civil wars, and wars between nations have been very nearly as common as ever.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial nations have been relatively peaceful because they\u2019ve been subject to the global hegemony of the United States.\u00a0 That hegemony is cracking around us, and the Ukraine war puts the decline in American power into high relief. As something like 225,000 Russian troops drive deep into Ukraine, supported on the ground by tanks and artillery and from the air by waves of fighter-bombers and cruise missiles, and Ukranian military units and civilian irregulars confront them on battlefields scattered across Europe\u2019s second largest country, the US response consists of moving a few token forces to countries well out of the line of fire, and imposing yet another round of financial sanctions aimed at Russian politicians\u2014you know, the sort of meaningless gestures that have reliably failed to accomplish anything when used against other hostile nations for decades now.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good question why this response remains so rigidly glued in place, despite its abject failures&#8230;<\/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>The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future As I write these words, the Russo-Ukrainian war has raged for a week.\u00a0 To a great many people, crises like these make the theme of my recent posts here\u2014the potential of the human imagination\u2014seem wholly irrelevant.\u00a0 That\u2019s a common mistake, but it\u2019s still a mistake. [&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":[5],"tags":[15417,1758,694,821,827,3142],"class_list":["post-62169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ecosophia","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169","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=62169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62170,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions\/62170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}