{"id":2243,"date":"2008-12-09T19:17:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2008-12-09T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:19:29","slug":"21st-century-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/12\/21st-century-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The 21st century crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">D<\/span>oes this sound familiar?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Communities and even entire countries seem to have less and less control of their own destinies. Traditional power structures are baffled by <strong>below-replacement fertility rates<\/strong>, <strong>illegal immigration<\/strong> and <strong>massive currency flows<\/strong>.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>They have unsatisfactory answers &#8211; or no answers at all &#8211; to the threat of large-scale redundancy in farming and manufacturing; they find it hard to prevent companies from relocating to other regions, or to muffle information from transnational TV and radio; they pause and worry at the implications of global warming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And because the established structures are fumbling with these challenges, people are responding with resignation &#8230; searching for new structures &#8230; demanding protection from the global forces for change &#8230; and turning angrily against recent immigrants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s from <strong>Paul Kennedy<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=SzycULSDk5kC&#038;pgis=1\">Preparing for the Twenty-first Century<\/a><\/em>. Published in 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sound familiar? Communities and even entire countries seem to have less and less control of their own destinies. Traditional power structures are baffled by below-replacement fertility rates, illegal immigration and massive currency flows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1415,1713,2021,2020],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-advertising","tag-india","tag-paul-kennedy","tag-yugoslavia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}