{"id":10332,"date":"2010-10-07T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=10332"},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:39:56","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-great-forgetting%e2%80%9d-companion-to-pierpont%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cwind-turbine-syndrome%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/%e2%80%9cthe-great-forgetting%e2%80%9d-companion-to-pierpont%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cwind-turbine-syndrome%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Great Forgetting\u201d<\/b>: Companion to Pierpont\u2019s \u201cWind Turbine Syndrome\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWind Turbine Syndrome\u201d is of course a symptom of a larger malaise\u2014humanity\u2019s largely dysfunctional relationship with planet Earth. Wearing a mantle of righteousness, wind energy has acquired the messianic urgency of a religion whose goal is to forestall \u00a0the Armageddon called Global Warming.<\/p>\n

Wind Energy v. Global Warming. <\/span><\/h4>\n

It makes for a powerful and bracing morality tale. Except for one problem. Wind energy and its massively proliferating, spinning cruciform turbines may well be, alas, overblown\u2014like every other messiah who\u2019s come down the pike since the dawn of civilization.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re interested in the larger debate over mankind\u2019s broken relationship with planet Earth\u2014a debate featuring wind energy as a key player\u2014you will be interested in a provocative new book by prize-winning historian, Calvin Luther Martin. (Yes, Nina Pierpont\u2019s husband.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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While Nina burns the midnight oil figuring out the whys and wherefores of Wind Turbine Syndrome, Calvin ransacks history, trying to figure out how humanity got into such a mess that turbines\u2014as evangelicals are wont to say of Jesus\u2014are \u201cthe answer.\u201d Retired Rutgers University professor, winner of the American Historical Association\u2019s \u201cbest book of the year\u201d (Beveridge) award, former Guggenheim and NEH Senior Fellow, and prolific author\u2014Martin has just published \u201cThe Great Forgetting.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Nothing less than splendid, truly\u2014visually as well as in content. It is a poem and it is magical”\u2014 Jack Goellner, Director Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University Press<\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Great Forgetting? Think of it as \u201cAdam\u2019s Wall,\u201d says Martin. Beast on one side, mankind on the other. So long as that barrier is in place, man and animal no longer share\u2014mind-bendingly share\u2014a common consciousness. As Martin sees it, we have forgotten the First World we once knew on the other side of the wall. A wall separating us not just from animals, but, more ominously, from the larger commonwealth Thoreau called \u201cwildness.\u201d \u201cWhere the wild things are,\u201d in Maurice Sendak\u2019s magical phrase. (Beware, however, for on the other side of that wall mankind no longer exercises dominion, as Adam believed himself ordained the Lord of Creation.)<\/p>\n

Wherever those wild things are\u2014we, collectively, clearly are not there. This slender, richly illustrated book explores the courageous efforts of a handful of intellectuals\u2014Jesus of Nazareth among them\u2014to breach that wall. To find\u2014to remember\u2014the Door in the Wall. To remove the artificial, incalculably destructive barrier separating modern man from the neurally-extravagant Mind at Large (the phrase is Aldous Huxley\u2019s) that archaeology and ethnology confirm our forebears knew intimately and intuitively since Lucy the Australopithecine walked the earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“A stunning and beautiful creation.
\nA wise guide that threads us back to a place we have forgotten”\u2014 William P. Sisler, Director, Harvard University Press<\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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If you want to learn more about “The Great Forgetting”, please visit the book website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWind Turbine Syndrome\u201d is of course a symptom of a larger malaise\u2014humanity\u2019s largely dysfunctional relationship with planet Earth. Wearing a mantle of righteousness, wind energy has acquired the messianic urgency of a religion whose goal is to forestall \u00a0the Armageddon called Global Warming. Wind Energy v. Global Warming. It makes for a powerful and bracing morality tale. Except for one problem. Wind energy and its massively proliferating, spinning cruciform turbines may well be, alas, overblown\u2014like every other messiah who\u2019s come down the pike since the dawn of civilization. If you\u2019re interested in the larger debate over mankind\u2019s broken relationship with planet Earth\u2014a debate featuring wind energy as a key player\u2014you will be interested in a provocative new book by prize-winning historian, Calvin Luther Martin. (Yes, Nina Pierpont\u2019s husband.) While Nina burns the midnight oil figuring out the whys and wherefores of Wind Turbine Syndrome, Calvin ransacks history, trying to figure out how humanity got into such a mess that turbines\u2014as evangelicals are wont to say of Jesus\u2014are \u201cthe answer.\u201d Retired Rutgers University professor, winner of the American Historical Association\u2019s \u201cbest book of the year\u201d (Beveridge) award, former Guggenheim and NEH Senior Fellow, and prolific author\u2014Martin has just published \u201cThe Great Forgetting.\u201d “Nothing less than splendid, truly\u2014visually as well as in content. It is a poem and it is magical”\u2014 Jack Goellner, Director Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}