{"id":3503209,"date":"2024-09-06T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3503209"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:30:58","slug":"can-we-escape-modern-civilization-human-nature-odyssey-meets-crazy-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-09-06\/can-we-escape-modern-civilization-human-nature-odyssey-meets-crazy-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Escape Modern Civilization? Human Nature Odyssey meets Crazy Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

You were born in Crazy Town. You\u2019ve lived your whole life among denizens of delusion, stuck in a culture that believes unlimited growth on a finite planet is perfectly reasonable. You\u2019ve watched as they clear cut the forests, removed whole mountaintops, smothered the earth in asphalt, and most unforgivingly: ran their gas powered leaf blowers from dawn till dusk.<\/p>\n

And despite your concern, you have participated in all this, reluctantly perhaps, but in Crazy Town all must participate to survive. You\u2019ve voiced your growing skepticism that things are not quite right, and headed towards obvious disaster. You\u2019ve been called a romantic-idealist, a primitivist-hippy. \u201cGet back to work,\u201d they\u2019ve said. \u201cCrazy Town needs you and you need Crazy Town, so quit your whining.\u201d But you are not alone.<\/p>\n

In a farmhouse attic turned podcast studio in Corvallis, Oregon, I joined Crazy Town podcast hosts Jason Bradford, Rob Dietz, and Asher Miller to discuss whether it\u2019s possible to escape our modern civilization and its various components (industrialism, imperialism, capitalism) or whether we\u2019re completely trapped.<\/p>\n

I first got in touch with Jason, Rob, and Asher last year during the first season of my Human Nature Odyssey podcast<\/a>. One way or another, crossing paths was probably inevitable. And in addition to sharing complementary perspectives and assessments of our global crises, they are easy to get along with. Chatting with them feels like sharing jokes in the back of class.<\/p>\n

As they give us a full tour of Crazy Town, we discuss what it might look like to escape it and its various components (industrialism, imperialism, capitalism) or if escape is even possible.<\/p>\n

We touch on the concept of \u201cred-pilling\u201d and the many factions of fringe that now proliferate in our society. We also discuss the 1993 Bill Murray classic film Groundhog Day<\/em>. I\u2019m not sure which is more important.<\/p>\n

You can listen to our conversation in the latest episode of Human Nature Odyssey titled \u201cCan We Escape Modern Civilization?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

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