{"id":601,"date":"2009-08-21T00:38:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:37:59","slug":"a-bolt-of-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/21\/a-bolt-of-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bolt of Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently discovered John Michael Greer&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Archdruid Report<\/em><\/a>, and while I don&#8217;t generally do this kind of post, I simply have to share with my readers my appreciation of his well-written and clearly reasoned economic thought.\u00a0 He sees the economy as an ecosystem, and shows that ecology and economics cannot be separated.\u00a0 I think his way of thinking makes a lot of sense out of both recent events and long-term historical trends.\u00a0 All the articles are fascinating, but I suggest starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/anti-ecology-of-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.\u00a0 Greer has been known as a writer on esoteric things like Hermeticism, but the rationality of his thinking on ecological economics makes all the mainstream economic theories look like mystical gobbledygook by comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently discovered John Michael Greer&#8217;s blog, The Archdruid Report, and while I don&#8217;t generally do this kind of post, I simply have to share with my readers my appreciation of his well-written and clearly reasoned economic thought.\u00a0 He sees the economy as an ecosystem, and shows that ecology and economics cannot be separated.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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}},"categories":[11],"tags":[71,72,73],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-ecology","tag-economics","tag-john-michael-greer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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