{"id":6483,"date":"2017-01-08T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2017-01-08T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:58:51","slug":"nightfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2017\/01\/08\/nightfall\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nightfall&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>For those who wish to understand the psychology of climate change denial and the process by which various interest groups conspire to suppress massive unpleasant truths, please read Issac Asimov\u2019s 1941 classic \u201cNightfall.\u201d The short story describes how the inhabitants try to suppress all discussion of an eclipse of all six suns that are visible from the planet. The eclipse creates complete chaos on the planet and the destruction of the civilization. But despite the efforts of one well-meaning figure, there is nothing that can be done to stop the denial, nor the eventual destruction.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8216;My columns may have been a little rough,<\/h2>\n<h2>but I gave you people the benefit of the<\/h2>\n<h2>doubt every time. After all. This is<br \/>\nnot the century to preach &#8220;The end of the<br \/>\nworld is at hand&#8221; to Lagash. You have to<br \/>\nunderstand that people don&#8217;t believe the<br \/>\n<em>Book of Revelations<\/em> anymore, and it<br \/>\nannoys them to have scientists turn<br \/>\nabout face and tell us the Cultists are right<br \/>\nafter all &#8212; &#8216;<\/h2>\n<h2>Isaac Asimov<br \/>\n&#8220;Nightfall&#8221;<br \/>\n1941<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>You can read the full text at:<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni.edu%2Fmorgans%2Fastro%2Fcourse%2Fnightfall.pdf&amp;h=pAQETddRY\">https:\/\/www.uni.edu\/morgans\/astro\/course\/nightfall.pdf<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who wish to understand the psychology of climate change denial and the process by which various interest groups conspire to suppress massive unpleasant truths, please read Issac Asimov\u2019s 1941 classic \u201cNightfall.\u201d The short story describes how the inhabitants try to suppress all discussion of an eclipse of all six suns that are visible &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;Nightfall&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2017\/01\/08\/nightfall\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;Nightfall&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}