{"id":65558,"date":"2023-07-24T06:07:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T11:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65558"},"modified":"2023-07-24T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T11:07:47","slug":"our-predicament-re-stated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65558","title":{"rendered":"Our Predicament Re-stated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our Predicament Re-stated<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is a meme doing the rounds on social media\u2026 a picture of a vegetable patch, captioned \u201cthe time is coming when only those who know how to grow food will survive.\u201d\u00a0 The idea being that, as our complex civilisation breaks down, we will be forced to return to a far simpler economy, where most people revert to roles within agriculture and food production.\u00a0 As with most memes, it functions as a thought-stopper\u2026 one which hides the obvious reality \u2013 backed by millennia of experience \u2013 that, in fact, \u201cit will be the people who know how to force others to grow food,\u201d who will be the real winners in the post-industrial economy.<\/p>\n

At a deeper level though, the meme is an example of the way we delude ourselves into believing that a positive version of collapse \u2013 usually in the form of managed de-growth \u2013 is possible, and that those promoting such a view will be the ones who inherit whatever benefits it offers.\u00a0 History says otherwise, of course.\u00a0 Life in pre-industrial civilisations was mostly short, brutal, and often marred with chronic pain.\u00a0 The best most people could hope for was life in an institutional version of slavery, where at least serfdom laid some nominal responsibilities on the clergy and the nobility who ruled over them.\u00a0 And again, it was those with the wherewithal to protect and\/or steal food by force who got to rule and to enjoy the few luxuries on offer.<\/p>\n

Not that most of those promoting some version of the \u201cgreen\u201d techno-psychotic vision of a future of wind turbines and electric cars are likely to fare any better.\u00a0 Sure, the WEF neofascists and their politician acolytes are currently making a play to cling on to power as industrial civilisation collapses…<\/p>\n

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Our Predicament Re-stated There is a meme doing the rounds on social media\u2026 a picture of a vegetable patch, captioned \u201cthe time is coming when only those who know how to grow food will survive.\u201d\u00a0 The idea being that, as our complex civilisation breaks down, we will be forced to return to a far simpler […]<\/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],"tags":[31388,150,2500,31568,15442,30640,31360],"class_list":["post-65558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-civilisational-collapse","tag-collapse","tag-history","tag-predicament","tag-renewables","tag-the-consciousness-of-sheep","tag-tim-watkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65558","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=65558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65559,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65558\/revisions\/65559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}