{"id":66142,"date":"2023-11-14T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66142"},"modified":"2023-11-14T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:32:52","slug":"why-are-solutions-really-just-bargaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66142","title":{"rendered":"Why are “Solutions” Really Just Bargaining?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why are “Solutions” Really Just Bargaining?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Flag Rock Recreation Area, Norton, Virginia<\/div>\n

I have tried to point out the reality throughout this entire blog that what we face moving forward is a set of predicaments with outcomes, not problems with solutions. Therefore, prescribing different ideas (whether they are actually labeled “solutions” or not is more or less irrelevant) focusing on ways to mitigate or “fix” these predicaments is a fool’s game because no solutions are available. Reflecting on a recent article where I pointed out that\u00a0the chief cause of problems is solutions<\/a>\u00a0brings a certain level of discovery to many people. Pointing out that\u00a0enlightenment eradicates false beliefs<\/a>\u00a0and that\u00a0who and what we are as a species<\/a>\u00a0isn’t going to change no matter what ideas are brought forth,\u00a0human ingenuity<\/a>\u00a0needs to be seen for what it actually is –\u00a0precisely what brought us to this point in the first place!<\/a><\/p>\n

I have also pointed out\u00a0my support for the degrowth movement but that doing so changes nothing with regards to the predicaments we face<\/a>. Sadly, I am still frequently accused of NOT supporting the degrowth movement despite my efforts (which frequently are far superior to those busy denigrating those efforts).\u00a0I am also often accused of “giving up”<\/a>\u00a0or being a\u00a0doomer<\/i><\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0spreading doomism<\/a>\u00a0or being a nihilist or even “Malthusian” of all things. I choose to laugh at this criticism because none of those criticisms hold up under scrutiny and their hypocrisy is noted as what is known as\u00a0special pleading<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>This is a logical fallacy, in other words. Each one of these people who criticize me for being skeptical, critical, or otherwise pointing out the reality is suffering from\u00a0denial of that reality<\/a>\u00a0and often at the same time suffering from\u00a0optimism bias<\/a>\u00a0as well, which often leads into toxic positivity. Basically, these folks are suffering from a huge dose of\u00a0hopium<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Why are “Solutions” Really Just Bargaining? Flag Rock Recreation Area, Norton, Virginia I have tried to point out the reality throughout this entire blog that what we face moving forward is a set of predicaments with outcomes, not problems with solutions. Therefore, prescribing different ideas (whether they are actually labeled “solutions” or not is more […]<\/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":[3,4,7],"tags":[12372,11589,30034,31189,4902,31180,7943],"class_list":["post-66142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-bargaining","tag-doomer","tag-doomism","tag-erik-michaels","tag-hopium","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66142","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=66142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66143,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66142\/revisions\/66143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}