{"id":53983,"date":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cover-magazine-com.stackstaging.com\/2013\/01\/30\/apocalypse-now-cross-stitch-tapestries-by-cordeiro-healy\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:45:44","slug":"apocalypse-now-cross-stitch-tapestries-by-cordeiro-healy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cover-magazine.com\/2013\/01\/30\/apocalypse-now-cross-stitch-tapestries-by-cordeiro-healy\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now? Cross-stitch tapestries by Cordeiro & Healy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?<\/em> Jared Diamond’s question is the title of Chapter 14 in his book Collapse<\/em><\/a>. He posits four sequential steps to explain why societies mismanage resources and fail to thrive or survive. First they fail to anticipate the problem. Then they fail to perceive it. Failure to solve the problem is followed by failure to succeed. After that? Pfffft.<\/em> Buh bye society. <\/p>\n Your scribe doesn’t know if Diamond’s theories underpin the cross-stitch series \u201cTapestry of Disaster, Immolation\u201d<\/a> by Australian artists Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy<\/a>, but their apocalyptic scenes crafted in a common, routine stitch (to underscore the democratic nature of the problem?) might be sufficient to scare audiences into reducing their carbon footprint if not lobby governments to change course. One can hope.<\/p>\n