{"id":8571,"date":"2015-05-29T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2015-05-29T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:50:10","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8571","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/05\/29\/the-rise-and-fall-of-fantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise and Fall of Fantasy<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><strong>Hay-on-Wye Festival Panel Discussion, With Ted Honderich &#8212; Who Reports on It &#8212; and David Aaronovitch and Edwina Currie<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainauthorstyle\">To Hay-on-Wye the other day I went, to the more intellectual of the two festivals, the one with music as well, the festival gnomically named<em>How The Light Gets In<\/em>\u00a0by its creator and benefactor Hilary Lawson of the family Lawsons. Of Nigel, once Chancellor of the Exchequer and Boom and Bust and latterly of Global Cooling, Nigella cooking beautifully on the telly, and lovely witty Vanessa married to A. J. Freddie Ayer of\u00a0<em>Language, Truth and Logic.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"main-text\">\n<p>Having tired out myself and my temper at 10 am and thereafter in my philosopher\u2019s report to a large audience on what it was for them to be conscious, unaided in my report by the audience\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pf9687o\">lecture handout<\/a>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>that did not find its way to the tent despite having been sent to Hay in advance three times, I found myself in another tent at 12 considering another subject, or anyway words. These words were as follows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we paraded grand visions of the future, now such goals are more typically left to the fanatical fringe. With economic and cultural growth in the East, what vision does the West have to offer?\u00a0 Do we need new fantasies to meet the challenges of the 21st Century or is our scepticism a sign of wisdom rather than decline?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 Rise and Fall of Fantasy Hay-on-Wye Festival Panel Discussion, With Ted Honderich &#8212; Who Reports on It &#8212; and David Aaronovitch and Edwina Currie To Hay-on-Wye the other day I went, to the more intellectual of the two festivals, the one with music as well, the festival gnomically namedHow The Light Gets In\u00a0by its [&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":[6],"tags":[5795,240,4799,341,5794,5793],"class_list":["post-8571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-21st-century","tag-economic-growth","tag-fantasy","tag-future","tag-hay-on-wye","tag-ted-honderich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","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=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8572,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions\/8572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}