{"id":8460,"date":"2021-08-10T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:33:08","slug":"what-makes-you-think-gaia-wont-cut-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2021\/08\/10\/what-makes-you-think-gaia-wont-cut-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes You Think Gaia Won&#8217;t Cut You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest climate report from the UN. More and more the expression &#8220;fiddling while Rome is burning&#8221; could not be more apt or literal. And what do we feel when confronted? We feel what we have been groomed to feel: learned helplessness.\u00a0 Just consider how little the elites who went to Obama&#8217;s 60th birthday party care.\u00a0 And consider how exponentially less Obama and\u00a0 Co. cared by inviting them. I have learned how helpless I really am in the face of these criminals.<\/p>\n<p>This video is dark in light of the new UN climate reports. It can&#8217;t help but be so, but at the end I invoke Buckminster Fuller&#8217;s idea of the trim tab as a way to counter learned helplessness.\u00a0 I do not accept my groomers&#8217; lies that there is nothing I can do to shift Containership Earth.\u00a0 We are not helpless.\u00a0 One thing we can all do is to call out all these bad actors who try to push all the eco-hazard of inviting people from all over the world to a thing so morally trivial as one&#8217;s 60th birthday party.\u00a0 There needs to be an &#8216;egregious&#8217; tax on Obama.\u00a0 It needs to be wealth confiscation on a grand scale if he continues to choose his own vanity over my grandchild&#8217;s future life.\u00a0 I say, &#8220;Fuck Obama and the hopeful lies he rode in on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is what he, alone and without consideration, brings down upon us:<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><div  id=\"_ytid_13262\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  data-origwidth=\"1280\" data-origheight=\"720\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UvLIetdK6f0?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/UvLIetdK6f0\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest climate report from the UN. More and more the expression &#8220;fiddling while Rome is burning&#8221; could not be more apt or literal. And what do we feel when confronted? We feel what we have been groomed to feel: learned helplessness.\u00a0 Just consider how little the elites who went to Obama&#8217;s 60th birthday party<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2021\/08\/10\/what-makes-you-think-gaia-wont-cut-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-clmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8463,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}