{"id":8131,"date":"2015-05-14T06:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2015-05-14T06:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:44:34","slug":"the-era-of-pretense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8131","title":{"rendered":"The Era of Pretense"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2015\/05\/the-era-of-pretense.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Era of Pretense<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned in previous posts here on\u00a0<em>The Archdruid Report<\/em>\u00a0the educational value of the comments I receive from readers in the wake of each week\u2019s essay. My post two weeks ago on the death of the internet was unusually productive along those lines.\u00a0\u00a0One of the comments I got in response to that post gave me the theme for last week\u2019s essay, but there was at least one other comment calling for the same treatment. Like the one that sparked last week\u2019s post, it appeared on one of the many other internet forums on which\u00a0<em>The Archdruid Report<\/em>, and it unintentionally pointed up a common and crucial failure of imagination that shapes, or rather misshapes, the conventional wisdom about our future.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously enough, the point that set off the commenter in question was the same one that incensed the author of the denunciation mentioned in last week\u2019s post: my suggestion in passing that fifty years from now, most Americans may not have access to electricity or running water. The commenter pointed out angrily that I\u2019d claimed that the twilight of industrial civilization would be a ragged arc of decline over one to three centuries. Now, he claimed, I was saying that it was going to take place in the next fifty years, and this apparently convinced him that everything I said ought to be dismissed out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Era of Pretense I&#8217;ve mentioned in previous posts here on\u00a0The Archdruid Report\u00a0the educational value of the comments I receive from readers in the wake of each week\u2019s essay. My post two weeks ago on the death of the internet was unusually productive along those lines.\u00a0\u00a0One of the comments I got in response to that [&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":[3463,150,1103,341,5427,1339,1758,866],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-collapse","tag-electricity","tag-future","tag-industrial-civilisation","tag-internet","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","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=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8132,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}