{"id":696,"date":"2005-03-31T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=696"},"modified":"2005-03-31T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T01:21:40","slug":"the-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millenniumassessment.org\/en\/index.aspx\">Millenium Ecosystem Assessment<\/a> is released I stumble across this quote in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctheory.net\/text_file.asp?pick=449\">intersting passion play about Terry Sciavo<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div>&#8220;When you narrow down your epistemology and act on the premise &#8216;What interests me is me, or my organization, or my species,&#8217; you chop off consideration of other loops [of the ecosystem]. You decide that you want to get rid of the by-products of human life and that Lake Erie will be a good place to put them. You forget that the eco-mental system called Lake Erie is part of your eco-mental system &#8212; and that if Lake Erie is driven insane, its insanity is incorporated into the larger system of your thought and experience. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Bateson&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment is released I stumble across this quote in an intersting passion play about Terry Sciavo: &#8220;When you narrow down your epistemology and act on the premise &#8216;What interests me is me, or my organization, or my species,&#8217; you chop off consideration of other loops [of the ecosystem]. You decide that you want to get rid of the by-products of human life and that Lake Erie will be a good place to put them. You forget that the eco-mental system called Lake Erie is part of your eco-mental system &#8212; and that if &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-be","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}