{"id":65338,"date":"2023-05-17T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65338"},"modified":"2023-05-17T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:43:13","slug":"when-nature-gazes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65338","title":{"rendered":"When Nature Gazes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosophia.net\/stumbling-through-the-fog\/\">When Nature Gazes Back<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It\u2019s been a month since I last posted on the theme of disenchantment, and a lively month at that. The cracks in America\u2019s global empire have become increasingly visible around the world.\u00a0 Here at home the mentally challenged resident of the White House continues to blunder through a vague approximation of his constitutional duties while the coterie of neoconservative zealots that hand him his talking (or rather mumbling) points is busy trying to start more wars the United States no longer has the resources or the national unity to win. Donald Trump is basking in the success of his recent CNN town hall, Robert Kennedy Jr. is rising steadily in the polls as he campaigns to unseat Biden for the Democratic nomination\u2014well, let\u2019s just sum things up by saying that it\u2019s a good time to go long on popcorn futures.<\/p>\n<p>With all this and more happening, it may not seem timely to return to so apparently abstract a point as the historical alternation between eras of enchantment and disenchantment. Here as so often, however, appearances deceive.\u00a0 What Max Weber called \u201cthe disenchantment of the world\u201d is a massive political fact, but it\u2019s by no means as cut and dried as Weber apparently thought\u2014and it\u2019s also not a one-way process. Grasp the way that the modern experience of disenchantment unfolded across historical time, and where it can be expected to lead next, and you understand much that is otherwise obscure about how we got into our present predicament and what we can expect in the years ahead. \u00a0This is the theme I plan on developing in this and a sequence of future posts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nature Gazes Back It\u2019s been a month since I last posted on the theme of disenchantment, and a lively month at that. The cracks in America\u2019s global empire have become increasingly visible around the world.\u00a0 Here at home the mentally challenged resident of the White House continues to blunder through a vague approximation of [&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":[7],"tags":[138,150,1088,1758],"class_list":["post-65338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-civilisation","tag-collapse","tag-dark-ages","tag-john-michael-greer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65338","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=65338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65339,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65338\/revisions\/65339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}