{"id":63265,"date":"2022-08-09T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63265"},"modified":"2022-08-09T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:37:36","slug":"phase-shift-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63265","title":{"rendered":"Phase Shift \u2014 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phase Shift \u2014 Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Loosing polar ice, the Amazon and the fight against a coming recession<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

N<\/span>ews stories and popular narratives on recent \u2014 and not so recent \u2014 events like how the economy got broke or why inflation is soaring focus\u00a0too much<\/em>\u00a0on human decisions. As if \u2018choices\u2019 leading up to these events were made in a completely rational manner, and as if what would happen tomorrow were completely up to the people making the next round of decisions.<\/p>\n

Pundits and politicians tend to refer to events in the age-old framing of good vs evil, people doing the right, or in case of evil folks, foolish things (1). This leads us to the widespread illusion, that all we have to do in case of trouble is to get rid of the wrong people and start doing things the right way (which is always \u2018our way\u2019<\/em>\u00a0of course).<\/p>\n

It is needless to say how much of a hubris this is. Human exceptionalism at its best. The world, classically understood through the concepts of money, politics and history \u2014\u00a0all human artifacts \u2014\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0by definition<\/em>\u00a0human centered and thus miss a large swathe of the picture. Stories based on these human concepts naturally focus on the\u00a0actor\u00a0<\/em>and not the\u00a0scene\u00a0<\/em>the actor is playing its role. Just like stories of heroes and kings of old.<\/p>\n

Our elites, trained in law schools, history classes and courses on neoclassical economics, however, cannot even think outside this rather narrow framing. Thing is, they do not even need to. Spinning stories masterfully built around money, politics, history and law is more than enough to launch people into power \u2014 but it fails exceptionally in driving us through the coming bottleneck.<\/p>\n

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Phase Shift \u2014 Part 1 Loosing polar ice, the Amazon and the fight against a coming recession Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via\u00a0Unsplash News stories and popular narratives on recent \u2014 and not so recent \u2014 events like how the economy got broke or why inflation is soaring focus\u00a0too much\u00a0on human decisions. As if \u2018choices\u2019 leading […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[20335,154,19125,33082,32578],"class_list":["post-63265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-bottleneck","tag-complexity","tag-emergent-phenomena","tag-phase-shift","tag-the-honest-sorcerer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265","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=63265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63266,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions\/63266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}