{"id":121,"date":"2014-10-18T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=121"},"modified":"2014-10-18T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:32:59","slug":"either-youre-the-butcher-or-youre-the-cattle-the-burning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"EITHER YOU\u2019RE THE BUTCHER OR YOU\u2019RE THE CATTLE \u00ab The Burning Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/10\/16\/either-youre-the-butcher-or-youre-the-cattle\/\">EITHER YOU\u2019RE THE BUTCHER OR YOU\u2019RE THE CATTLE \u00ab The Burning Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know many people have\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/10\/16\/either-youre-the-butcher-or-youre-the-cattle\/\" rel=\"no interest|2\">no interest<\/a>\u00a0in watching the boob tube because 99% of the programming is either mindless drivel or government sanctioned propaganda. It\u2019s the 1% that reflects the deeper themes and moods engulfing our society.\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/10\/16\/either-youre-the-butcher-or-youre-the-cattle\/\" rel=\"television shows|3\">Television shows<\/a>\u00a0like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walking-Dead-Seasons-1-3-Bundle\/dp\/B00FFSTPDU\/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=thebur01-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=OYUOHVGZOGCHYGY7&amp;creativeASIN=B00FFSTPDU\">The Walking Dead<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0reflect the darkening mood of this intensifying\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Fourth-Turning-American-Rendezvous\/dp\/0767900464\/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=thebur01-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=HASBLK6LM5MQOUZI&amp;creativeASIN=0767900464\">Fourth Turning<\/a><\/strong>. I wrote one of my more pessimistic articles called\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/04\/06\/welcome-to-terminus\/\">Welcome to Terminus<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in April regarding the season four finale of the Walking Dead series. I essentially argued we are approaching the end of the line and the world is going to get real nasty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30011  colorbox-30002 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/aggressivecomix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/twd-s04e16-06-1024x608.jpg\" alt=\"twd-s04e16-06\" width=\"480\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the six short months since I wrote that depressing article, we\u2019ve seen men beheaded on Youtube videos by terrorists no one had ever heard of at the beginning of this year. Somehow a ragtag band of 30,000 Muslim terrorists, using American military equipment supplied to fight Assad in Syria and taken from the Iraqi Army when they turned tail and ran away, have been able to defeat 600,000 Iraqi and Kurd fighters with air support from the vaunted U.S. Air Force. Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan descend into never ending religious based warfare. We\u2019ve even had passenger planes mysteriously disappear in Asia with no trace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link for the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EITHER YOU\u2019RE THE BUTCHER OR YOU\u2019RE THE CATTLE \u00ab The Burning Platform. I know many people have\u00a0no interest\u00a0in watching the boob tube because 99% of the programming is either mindless drivel or government sanctioned propaganda. It\u2019s the 1% that reflects the deeper themes and moods engulfing our society.\u00a0Television shows\u00a0like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/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":[8,9,35,117,150,160,223,248,305,329,330,347,379,442,446,483,494,557,577,584,607,655,660,685,689,694,704,706,733,776,791,796,821,854,856,860,873,903],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-8","tag-4th-amendment","tag-assad","tag-catalonia","tag-collapse","tag-constitution","tag-ebola","tag-edward-bernays","tag-federal-reserve","tag-fourth-turning","tag-fourth-turnings","tag-gareth","tag-government","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-liberty-2","tag-madison-avenue","tag-nazis","tag-nsa","tag-obama","tag-pandemic","tag-propaganda","tag-putin","tag-revolution","tag-rick-grimes","tag-russia","tag-schindlers-list","tag-scotland","tag-social-issues","tag-syria","tag-terminus","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-ukraine","tag-violence","tag-virus","tag-wall-street","tag-westbury","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}