{"id":7175,"date":"2015-04-09T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2015-04-09T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:48:08","slug":"the-burden-of-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7175","title":{"rendered":"The Burden of Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Burden of Denial<\/a><\/h3>\n

It occurred to me the other day that quite a few of the odder features of contemporary American culture make perfect sense if you assume that everybody knows exactly what\u2019s wrong and what\u2019s coming as our society rushes, pedal to the metal, toward its face-first collision with the brick wall of the future. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t get it; they get it all too clearly, and they just wish that those of us on the fringes would quit reminding them of the imminent impact, so they can spend whatever time they\u2019ve got left in as close to a state of blissful indifference as they can possibly manage.
\nI grant that this realization probably had a lot to do with the context in which it came to me. I was sitting in a restaurant, as it happens, with a vanload of fellow Freemasons.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019d carpooled down to Baltimore, some of us to receive one of the higher degrees of Masonry and the rest to help with the ritual work, and we stopped for dinner on the way back home. I\u2019ll spare you the name of the place we went; it was one of those currently fashionable beer-and-burger joints where the waitresses have all been outfitted with skirts almost long enough to cover their underwear, bare midriffs, and the sort of push-up bras that made them look uncomfortably like inflatable dolls\u2014an impression that their too obviously scripted jiggle-and-smile routines did nothing to dispell.<\/p>\n

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The Burden of Denial It occurred to me the other day that quite a few of the odder features of contemporary American culture make perfect sense if you assume that everybody knows exactly what\u2019s wrong and what\u2019s coming as our society rushes, pedal to the metal, toward its face-first collision with the brick wall of […]<\/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":[1330,1153,1752,3019,1758,4692,786],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-denial","tag-distraction","tag-economic-contraction","tag-energy-contraction","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-magical-thinking","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","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=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}