{"id":3481354,"date":"2020-05-14T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3481354"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:05:15","slug":"poked-by-a-porcupine-the-politics-of-contraction-episode-27-of-crazy-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2020-05-14\/poked-by-a-porcupine-the-politics-of-contraction-episode-27-of-crazy-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction (Episode 27 of Crazy Town)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-3733742\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/244372\/3733742-poked-by-a-porcupine-the-politics-of-contraction.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-3733742&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/playpodca.st\/crazytown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3480657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CT-listen-now-button-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CT-listen-now-button-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CT-listen-now-button-1-600x90.png 600w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CT-listen-now-button-1-304x46.png 304w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CT-listen-now-button-1-768x115.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before you heap praise on someone\u2019s cooking, even for something as delicious as porcupine pot pie, you might want to consider the effects of ego inflation and the downsides of a hyper-individualistic culture. In this episode Asher, Rob, and Jason wonder if individualism (not to mention all those other \u201c-isms\u201d&#8230; capitalism, socialism, communism) is simply the product of a relatively short period of expansionism, and what of our values must be kept or discarded as we enter a new era of contraction and bureaucratic breakdown. While expressing a profound desire to retain the progress humanity has made on numerous fronts (don\u2019t sleep on 21st-century dentistry), they make sure to insult one another just enough for proper ego containment. For episode notes and more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/crazytown\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">please visit our website<\/span><\/a> and sign up for our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Teaser image credit: Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/analogicus-8164369\">analogicus<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\">Pixabay<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode Asher, Rob, and Jason wonder if individualism (not to mention all those other \u201c-isms\u201d&#8230; capitalism, socialism, communism) is simply the product of a relatively short period of expansionism, and what of our values must be kept or discarded as we enter a new era of contraction and bureaucratic breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128238,"featured_media":3481355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251744,251746,79720,213535],"tags":[163844,217820,94173,95871],"class_list":["post-3481354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crazy-town","category-podcasts","category-society","category-society-featured","tag-buildingresilientsocieties","tag-crazy-town","tag-economiccontraction","tag-poweringdown"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}