{"id":63603,"date":"2022-09-27T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63603"},"modified":"2022-09-27T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:13:11","slug":"the-fourth-great-humiliation-of-humanity-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63603","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon\u00a0Us."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon\u00a0Us.<\/a><\/h3>\n

If we don\u2019t pull our heads in, we\u2019re doomed. If we do, the future is bright.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cGalileo Sees the Earth\u201d by sjrankin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0._c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

WHEN I WAS TEACHING in Japan 20 years ago, one of my students introduced me to The Three Great Humiliations of Man [sic] in an essay I\u2019d assigned. I was so impressed by her powerful choice of plagiarism, that I passed it with flying colours.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I stopped using the term \u2018man\u2019 (and \u2018mankind\u2019) 35 years ago. I\u2019m amazed to find people still using it today \u2013 alongside some who claim we\u2019re not a biologically sexual species. So much for social cohesion. Forgive the rant.<\/p>\n

Just now I searched online for The Three Great Humiliations of Humanity. There were many references to the Century of Humiliation in China, but it turns out\u00a0Sigmund Freud coined the term<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. They are: 1\/ The discovery by Copernicus and Galileo that we are not the centre of the universe. 2\/ Darwin\u2019s discovery that we are descended from apes. 3\/ Freud\u2019s discovery that we are not in control of our minds. I don\u2019t think we can accuse Freud of humility!<\/p>\n

The Fourth Great Humiliation \u2013 or Humbling \u2013 of our species is upon us. We\u2019re stuck on this beautiful blue gem in space and we\u2019d better learn to live within it\u2019s limits. If we do, we have a chance at peace, harmony and happiness. We also have a chance to reach a similarly livable planet in the galaxy in the distant future. If we don\u2019t, our prospects are very grim indeed.<\/p>\n

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The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon\u00a0Us. If we don\u2019t pull our heads in, we\u2019re doomed. If we do, the future is bright. \u201cGalileo Sees the Earth\u201d by sjrankin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0._c WHEN I WAS TEACHING in Japan 20 years ago, one of my students introduced me to The Three Great […]<\/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":[1330,33187,485,33188],"class_list":["post-63603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-denial","tag-equanimity","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-simon-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603","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=63603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63604,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603\/revisions\/63604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}