{"id":1047,"date":"2014-11-03T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2014-11-03T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:32:00","slug":"a-kept-culture-two-ice-floes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"A Kept Culture | Two Ice Floes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Kept Culture | Two Ice Floes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My thinking on a variety of subjects has changed over time and I expect my understanding will continue to evolve as new information, knowledge and propaganda enters my orbit. Contrary to popular belief this is a good thing because it means my mindset is not as static and rigid as some, though it is most certainly worse than others.<\/p>\n

One of the great questions of the ages is why we, and by \u2018we<\/em>\u2019 I mean anyone other than \u2018they\/them<\/em>\u2019, tolerate the abuse we receive from the hand of our masters. While the mistreatment is most often handed down on an individual basis, \u201cWe the Abused<\/em>\u201d outnumber the abusers by at least 10 to 1. And I count among that \u20181\u2019 all those who enable, support and carry out the abuse. So why do we tolerate something we can clearly stop if we so wish?<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier on in my ongoing awakening, a never ending process of self reflection and discovery, I would sometimes use the derogatory term \u2018sheeple<\/em>\u2019 to describe both a people and a condition. I was grasping for a simple all encompassing answer to a complex problem, and believing that the vast masses were blissfully ignorant while passively grazing upon an array of consumer goods satisfied my need to understand what to me at the time was incomprehensible.<\/p>\n

This is not to say some are not exactly as described. In fact at one point in my life I fit the bill perfectly, totally consumed in my naval gazing and mostly oblivious to not only my own lot in life, but those around me. As a single parent raising my boy alone for seventeen years, I was righteously indignant if anyone dared to question my focus. After all, I was doing it for the child(ren).<\/p>\n

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A Kept Culture | Two Ice Floes. My thinking on a variety of subjects has changed over time and I expect my understanding will continue to evolve as new information, knowledge and propaganda enters my orbit. Contrary to popular belief this is a good thing because it means my mindset is not as static and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,530,621,726],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-beliefs","tag-mindset","tag-perception","tag-sheeple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}