{"id":1363,"date":"2014-11-10T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T16:54:22","slug":"the-fate-of-the-turtle-kunstler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of the Turtle | KUNSTLER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/the-fate-of-the-turtle\/\">The Fate of the Turtle | KUNSTLER<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span class=\"dropcap\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 3em; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; float: left; position: relative; line-height: 0.7em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 11px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 50px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">A<\/span><\/span><span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">nybody truly interested in government, and therefore politics, should be cognizant above all that ours have already entered systemic failure. The management of societal affairs is on an arc to become more inept and ineffectual, no matter how either of the current major parties pretends to control things. Instead of Big Brother, government in our time turns out to be Autistic Brother. It makes weird noises and flaps its appendages, but can barely tie its own shoelaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The one thing it does exceedingly well is drain the remaining capital from endeavors that might contribute to the greater good. This includes intellectual capital, by the way, which, under better circumstances, might gird the political will to reform the sub-systems that civilized life depends on. These include: food production (industrial agri-business), commerce (the WalMart model), transportation (Happy Motoring), school (a matrix of rackets), medicine (ditto with the patient as hostage), and banking (a matrix of fraud and swindling).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">All of these systems have something in common: they\u2019ve exceeded their fragility threshold and crossed into the frontier of criticality. They have nowhere to go except failure. It would be nice if we could construct leaner and more local systems to replace these monsters, but there is too much vested interest in them. For instance, the voters slapped down virtually every major ballot proposition to invest in light rail and public transit around the country. The likely explanation is that they\u2019ve bought the story that shale oil will allow them to drive to WalMart forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: top; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fate of the Turtle | KUNSTLER. Anybody truly interested in government, and therefore politics, should be cognizant above all that ours have already entered systemic failure. The management of societal affairs is on an arc to become more inept and ineffectual, no matter how either of the current major parties pretends to control things. 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