{"id":836,"date":"2011-12-24T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extraenvironmentalist.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:10:36","slug":"episode-32-apocalypse-never","status":"publish","type":"xen_episodes","link":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/xe\/episodes\/episode-32-apocalypse-never\/","title":{"rendered":"[ Episode #32 \/\/ Apocalypse Never ]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though we live in an age of economic decline and collapse, do our expectations for the future act similarly to the thought patterns of religious faiths expecting the end of the world? \u00a0For the last 3,000 years, our species has used the meme of apocalypse to create the expectation for a utopia that never arose. Beginning with the\u00a0Zoroastrian\u00a0religion, the monotheistic faiths have contained the notion of an end to the world. Our historical record contains many events where a date was set and nothing happened. How did it feel to be one of those that had sacrificed everything to be swept away by a deity that never arrived?<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Extraenvironmentalist #32<\/strong>\u00a0we speak with\u00a0John Michael Greer<\/a>\u00a0about his latest book, Apocalypse Not: Everything You Know About 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture are Wrong<\/a>. We ask John about the historical context of monotheistic religions, where the apocalypse meme began and its implications in our expectations for the future.\u00a0We ask if the world is going to end in 2012 and JMG explains how David Icke's evil space lizards are involved. Did Seth really see George W.Bush metamorph into a lizard? If he didn't, what happens when we reach the end of the current Mayan calendar long count?<\/p>\n

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\/\/ Music (in order of appearance)<\/strong>
\nFeist - How Come You Never Go There<\/a>\u00a0via<\/em>\u00a0Pretty Much Amazing<\/a>
\nJagwar Ma - Come and Save Me<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0via\u00a0<\/em>Pigeons and Planes<\/a>
\nG<\/a>ruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas<\/a>\u00a0via <\/em>Some Kind of Awesome<\/a>
\nNadastrom vs. Echo - Church<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0<\/em>Chorus+Echo<\/a>
\nColdplay - The Scientist \u00a0(Demitri Vangelis and Wyman need Howie's thin mint cookies remix)<\/a>\u00a0via<\/em>\u00a0Mufasas Revenge<\/a><\/p>\n

\/\/ Extended Clips (in order of appearance)<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Alex Jones: David Icke is the turd in a punchbowl<\/a>
\nAusterity hits the Dead and Santa Alike <\/a>
\nA Recession Christmas <\/a>
\nIs China's Economy Collapsing?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though we live in an age of economic decline and collapse, do our expectations for the future act similarly to the thought patterns of religious faiths expecting the end of the world? \u00a0For the last 3,000 years, our species has used the meme of apocalypse to create the expectation for a utopia that never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13058,"featured_media":839,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,29,30,51,67,84,89,101,106,131,134,146],"class_list":["post-836","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-belief","tag-cognitive-systems","tag-collapse","tag-druidry","tag-expectations","tag-history","tag-ideology","tag-mayans","tag-myth","tag-psychology","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n[ Episode #32 \/\/ Apocalypse Never ] - Extraenvironmentalist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/xe\/episodes\/episode-32-apocalypse-never\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[ Episode #32 \/\/ Apocalypse Never ] - Extraenvironmentalist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even though we live in an age of economic decline and collapse, do our expectations for the future act similarly to the thought patterns of religious faiths expecting the end of the world? 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