{"id":14093,"date":"2021-09-06T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/anthropocaust\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:12:35","slug":"anthropocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/anthropocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426-441x252.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0534bc218fa3343b26059c86f715b426-10x6.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Anthropocaust<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Rip Bulkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cassandra never smiled. Devastation,<br \/>though future for others, was her constant<br \/>reality. En route to the death camps<br \/>people were still together, had luggage,<br \/>and could try to look forward. Even after<br \/>being stripped and selected, there may<br \/>have been distractions, conversation;<br \/>but oven fodder did not smile.<\/p>\n<p>Our delusions are the disgraceful<br \/>mystery of these times: wars, festivals,<br \/>work, murders, pets, vaccines, shopping,<br \/>charities, music, and so unbelievably on.<br \/>Meanwhile the human vehicle is colliding<br \/>with signposts, shedding fenders against walls;<br \/>its tyres are fiery Catherine wheels. But we,<br \/>the passengers, turn inwards to shut out<br \/>the calamity we have long invited<br \/>and do not intend to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>The climate campaigners offer comfort<br \/>to some who despair, suggesting they turn<br \/>away for respite with the fantasies of life.<br \/>It comes naturally from those who must<br \/>self-deceive about the power of governments.<br \/>But no wonder that so many others<br \/>are still preparing for fulfilment,<br \/>falling in love, making homes, <br \/>and sharing their enthusiasms<br \/>for every variety of sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropocaust by Rip Bulkeley Cassandra never smiled. Devastation,though future for others, was her constantreality. En route to the death campspeople were still together, had luggage,and could try&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":14089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}