{"id":10960,"date":"2023-10-01T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T01:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:25:27","slug":"still-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/10\/still-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Still going on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1977, Ursula K. LeGuin wrote an introduction for her anti-war novel <em>The Word for World Is Forest<\/em> \u2014 a novel which she had begun writing in 1968. In the 1977 introduction, she said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;1968 was a bitter year for those who opposed the [Vietnam] war. The lies and hypocrises doubled; so did the killing. Moreover, it was becoming clear that the ethic which approved the defoliation of forests and grainlands and the murder of noncombatants in the name of &#8216;peace&#8217; was only a corollary of the ethic which permits the despoilation of natural resources for private profit or the GNP, and the murder of creatures of the Earth in the name of &#8216;man.&#8217; The victory of the ethic of exploitation, in all societies, seemed as inevitable as it was disastrous.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, in 2023, the connection between war and environmental exploitation is still in place. Sad to say, humanity is still dominated by the ethic of exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1977, Ursula K. LeGuin wrote an introduction for her anti-war novel The Word for World Is Forest \u2014 a novel which she had begun writing in 1968. In the 1977 introduction, she said: &#8220;1968 was a bitter year for those who opposed the [Vietnam] war. The lies and hypocrises doubled; so did the killing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/10\/still-going-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still going on&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[710,21],"tags":[269,911],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-political-culture","tag-ursula-k-leguin","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11133,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions\/11133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}