{"id":65003,"date":"2023-02-11T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65003"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:02:12","slug":"the-daily-8-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65003","title":{"rendered":"The Daily: 8 February\u00a02023"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/by-my-solitary-hearth.net\/2023\/02\/08\/the-daily-8-february-2023\/\">The Daily: 8 February\u00a02023<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-4\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\"><em style=\"font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace;\">You have your way.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><em>I have my way.\r\nAs for the right way,\r\nthe correct way,\r\nand the only way,\r\nit does not exist.<\/em>\r\n\u2014 Friedrich Nietzsche\r\n(in the <em>Old Farmer's Almanac<\/em> 2023 Planner)<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p>I do not agree with Nietzsche on many things. Big surprise there, I\u2019m sure. So when I saw this alongside the entry for 8 February in my daily writing planner, I felt it was a sign. Or at least a minor portent.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, in the conversations I have been having here and there with many people, there has been a running theme \u2014 what we (universal) need to do (also universal). One of the professors who comes into our store each day held forth on this subject for so long that there was audible eye-rolling from the kids. This is also a trope on many of the blog sites and podcasts I favor, even those that ought to know better. Ought to have read Nietzsche anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to trot out another quote, often ascribed to Einstein (someone I do agree with regularly). \u201c<strong><em>We can\u2019t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d Or there is this impression of the same sentiment from Audre Lorde: \u201c<strong><em>The master\u2019s tools will never dismantle the master\u2019s house<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I will add this of my own making:\u00a0<strong><em>our future isn\u2019t a problem to be solved<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We do not face one broken thing that we can put back together. We face many things that are working more or less properly \u2014 though many aspects of that proper functioning are not going our way \u2014 and we can\u2019t solve any of it. But even if there were problems to solve, there would never be one solution. One solution thinking is the tool of the global elite, those who want to retain control through top-down fixes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily: 8 February\u00a02023 You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. \u2014 Friedrich Nietzsche (in the Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac 2023 Planner) I do not agree with Nietzsche on many things. Big surprise there, I\u2019m sure. So when I [&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":[4,6,7],"tags":[31039,31089],"class_list":["post-65003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-eliza-daley","tag-my-solitary-hearth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65003","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=65003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65004,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65003\/revisions\/65004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}