{"id":65594,"date":"2023-08-05T08:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65594"},"modified":"2023-08-05T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:51:54","slug":"notes-on-stormtrooper-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65594","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosophia.net\/notes-on-stormtrooper-syndrome\/\">Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>For some time now I\u2019ve been looking for a way to talk about one of the most common bad habits of thought in the modern industrial world.\u00a0 Habits like this are far more important that a casual glance might suggest.\u00a0 Plenty of pragmatic factors are piling up crises for our civilization just now, but many of those could be solved\u2014or at least faced in a more constructive way\u2014if our government and business elites could think clearly about them. It\u2019s the fact that they don\u2019t seem to be able to do this that makes the crisis of our time so overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really quite remarkable, when you think of it. These days, if a government bureaucracy or one of those dreary panels of multibillionaires get together to try to solve some problem, you can bet your bottom dollar that they\u2019ll either do nothing or make the problem worse. It\u2019s not that the people in question aren\u2019t educated\u2014they have the best education you can get in a modern Western society. It\u2019s not that they lack\u00a0 resources\u2014for example, the money and energy that go into those climate conferences each year, put to some productive use, could have contributed considerably to mitigating the effects of climate change. No, the problem is that the people in question are stuck in habits of thought that make it impossible for them to do anything useful in a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this is a controversial claim these days. Quite a few people have become convinced that our government and corporate elites can\u2019t possibly be as stupid as they seem.\u00a0 No, it\u2019s got to be a sinister conspiracy! It\u2019s easy to understand why that sort of thinking has become popular&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome For some time now I\u2019ve been looking for a way to talk about one of the most common bad habits of thought in the modern industrial world.\u00a0 Habits like this are far more important that a casual glance might suggest.\u00a0 Plenty of pragmatic factors are piling up crises for our civilization [&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":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[15417,379,1758,26071,8154,862],"class_list":["post-65594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-ecosophia","tag-government","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-narrative-management","tag-ukraine-war","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594","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=65594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65595,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594\/revisions\/65595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}