{"id":3174,"date":"2022-09-27T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2022-09-27T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:13:56","slug":"recommended-reading-listening-balloon-season-by-thomas-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/09\/recommended-reading-listening-balloon-season-by-thomas-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"RECOMMENDED READING\/LISTENING: \u201cBalloon Season\u201d by Thomas Ha @PseudoPod_org"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boiling_frog\">frog boil<\/a>\u201d story, and may in fact be the <em>perfect<\/em> frog boil story.\u00a0 If you\u2019re woke-ish, then it is pretty clearly a climate change story. But if you\u2019re on the political right, it may actually seem to much more obviously be an immigration story. It could be a cautionary tale about the dangers of group think (although its up to the reader to determine of its more about anti-mask group think, QAnon group think, CRT group think) or privilege or income disparity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However you read it, the message is the same: It\u2019s a warning against repeating the same old prayer that humans have repeated prior to disaster for Millenia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>I guess it\u2019s happening, but let it happen in some other neighborhood in some other town far away, above someone else\u2019s roof and out of my sight.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Anywhere but here.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p><p><em>Anywhere else.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, absolutely terrific monster-of-the-week. So worth your ears and eyes: <a href=\"https:\/\/pseudopod.org\/2022\/07\/20\/pseudopod-819-balloon-season\/\"><strong>PseudoPod 819: \u201cBalloon Season\u201d by by Thomas Ha<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a \u201cfrog boil\u201d story, and may in fact be the perfect frog boil story.\u00a0 If you\u2019re woke-ish, then it is pretty clearly a climate change story. But if you\u2019re on the political right, it may actually seem to much more obviously be an immigration story. It could be a cautionary tale about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/09\/recommended-reading-listening-balloon-season-by-thomas-ha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RECOMMENDED READING\/LISTENING: \u201cBalloon Season\u201d by Thomas Ha @PseudoPod_org&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,153],"tags":[110,814,813,30,572,53,810],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}