{"id":381226,"date":"2018-10-16T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/talking-about-death-while-in-decadence\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:27:29","slug":"talking-about-death-while-in-decadence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/talking-about-death-while-in-decadence\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Death While In Decadence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_106237\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106237\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/16033413679_8759492212_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/16033413679_8759492212_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/16033413679_8759492212_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Diana Kelly | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Gunslinging Our Way to a Terminal Salvation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cdecadence\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabulary.com\/dictionary\/decadence\">means<\/a>\u00a0extravagance, luxury, and self-indulgence with a sense of moral decline. Most of us living in America live in luxury and extravagance with the opportunity to self-indulge compared to many humans and non humans around the world. I know things are bad now for many Americans and navigating through life is stressful and harrowing, but these times we are in will feel like a Disney movie, and the luxuries we currently have access to places us in a sort of Disney World trance we get admission to.<\/p>\n<p>More people are punching their tickets to their personal Disney Worlds out of fear of death and while sensing a moral decline with what Western Civilization has imposed on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>When the latest United Nations report came out on indicating we have just a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/amphtml\/energy-environment\/2018\/10\/08\/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say\/\">decade<\/a>\u00a0to get climate change under control, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported starting in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/07\/climate\/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html\">2040<\/a>\u00a0we will see a world with worsening food shortages and wildfires, and mass die-offs. We read these articles, and then retreat to our decadent Disney Worlds, also known as our smartphones. We tweet, text, post, Skype, and snap these stories to show we are \u201cin the know\u201d about our civilization\u2019s and species\u2019s pending demise.<\/p>\n<p>What I have been thinking about lately is those of us paying attention to Abrupt Climate Change and the Sixth Mass Extinction\u2026 are we really \u201cin the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/16\/talking-about-death-while-in-decadence\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Diana Kelly | CC BY 2.0 Gunslinging Our Way to a Terminal Salvation The word \u201cdecadence\u201d\u00a0means\u00a0extravagance, luxury, and self-indulgence with a sense of moral decline. Most of us living in America live in luxury and extravagance with the opportunity to self-indulge compared to many humans and non humans around the world. I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}