{"id":21639,"date":"2023-07-05T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2023-07-05T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:26:57","slug":"a-hypothetical-posed-about-some-distant-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=21639","title":{"rendered":"A hypothetical posed about some distant future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-21639-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" poster=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-next-generation-would-be-justified-in-asking-what-were-you-thinking.png\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-next-generation-would-be-justified-in-asking-what-were-you-thinking.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-next-generation-would-be-justified-in-asking-what-were-you-thinking.mp4\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-next-generation-would-be-justified-in-asking-what-were-you-thinking.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><em>Inconvenient Sequel<\/em>, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The next generation, looking back at us&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The framing is consistently that of &#8222;citizens in a democracy&#8220; asked to take joint responsibility to prevent hypothetical (though likely) catastrophe occuring in some distant future.<\/p>\n<p>What was <em>I<\/em> thinking in 2017? I was thinking <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Rex Tillerson<\/span> and I likely had different abilities to impact actions taken by ExxonMobil. At a Dianne Feinstein town hall I was thinking the Indivisible audience of outraged voters was quite divisible, as evidenced by my personal experience querying a few fellow audience members on the advisability of continuing to vote for Democratic Party incumbents. I was thinking Feinstein was visibly suffering from dementia and should not continue serving as a US senator. I was thinking I would be glad to be leaving <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">San Francisco<\/span>&#8217;s world of delusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inconvenient Sequel, 2017 &#8222;The next generation, looking back at us&#8220;. The framing is consistently that of &#8222;citizens in a democracy&#8220; asked to take joint responsibility to prevent hypothetical (though likely) catastrophe occuring in some distant future. What was I thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=21639\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}