{"id":63036,"date":"2022-07-12T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63036"},"modified":"2022-07-12T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:58:00","slug":"of-heroes-and-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63036","title":{"rendered":"Of Heroes and Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of Heroes and Dragons<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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in which a planet-sized blindspot gets revealed<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image credit: Kent Pilcher via\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You were warned<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following read might incite serious levels of\u00a0cognitive dissonance<\/em>\u00a0and result in anger, disbelief and an irresistible urge to trash the author. Unfortunately I cannot take responsibility for your actions, so proceed at your own risk from here on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

D<\/span>uring my journey, discovering the predicament of our civilization, I\u2019ve met quite a few different views and perspectives on how we should proceed from where we are as a global community. I listened to countless stories on how technology, or the \u2018inevitable\u2019 awakening of a \u2018collective human consciousness\u2019 will \u2018solve\u2019 every \u2018problem\u2019 we have and how we only need the money or simply the \u2018will\u2019 to save ourselves. However, there was\u00a0always\u00a0<\/strong>a fly in that magic ointment.<\/p>\n

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I had to realize that in order to promote and to keep on believing in the continuation of this high tech civilization, one has to embark on a mental journey into fantasy land, populated with heroes and cruel dragons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Hey, I warned you, it\u2019s still not too late to stop reading!)<\/em><\/p>\n

A problem dissected<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every fantastic story, no matter how unrealistic it is, always has an element of truth to it, but there is also a typical pattern of thinking required to wholeheartedly believe in them.<\/p>\n

It usually starts with accepting\u00a0a small subset<\/em>\u00a0of predicaments (discussed\u00a0on these pages<\/a>), but\u00a0only\u00a0<\/em>by mentally reducing them into a \u2018problem\u2019 with a \u2018solution\u2019 \u2014 which they are definitely not. The next step requires dismissing the rest of the predicaments altogether \u2014 either because of a lack of knowledge or care \u2014 or, as I often warn my readers, because of rampant magical thinking; believing that as a boon to implementing the \u2018master plan\u2019 these \u2018problems\u2019 would be sorted out\u00a0automatically<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Of Heroes and Dragons in which a planet-sized blindspot gets revealed Image credit: Kent Pilcher via\u00a0Unsplash You were warned The following read might incite serious levels of\u00a0cognitive dissonance\u00a0and result in anger, disbelief and an irresistible urge to trash the author. Unfortunately I cannot take responsibility for your actions, so proceed at your own risk from […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[2675,150,31469,32578],"class_list":["post-63036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-cognitive-dissonance","tag-collapse","tag-predicaments","tag-the-honest-sorcerer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63036","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=63036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63037,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63036\/revisions\/63037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}