{"id":21350,"date":"2016-07-03T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21350"},"modified":"2016-07-03T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:25:20","slug":"theres-no-place-called-transnationalprofessionalistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21350","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Place Called \u201cTransNationalProfessionalistan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s No Place Called \u201cTransNationalProfessionalistan\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms\u2014elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest\u2014will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial\u2014but Democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0From the post:\u00a0Brave New World Revisited\u2026Key Excerpts and My Summary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Megan\u00a0McArdle has penned an extraordinary article in the wake of the Brexit referendum. Her words represent\u00a0the\u00a0sort of deep, thoughtful reflection Remain-supporting pundits and journalists should be demonstrating\u00a0at the moment, but clearly aren\u2019t. Indeed, as tends to be the case with elites during\u00a0moments of peak corruption and societal decay, their collective heads are too\u00a0far up their own assess to see what\u2019s right in front of them.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for them, these\u00a0myriad mean-spirited temper tantrums will have precisely the opposite effect of their desired outcome. Their panicked\u00a0rants will simply put\u00a0their true colors on public display for all to see, further propelling the dreaded populists sentiments they wish to stifle. This will ultimately lead\u00a0to a far more serious revolt against all things status quo.<\/p>\n

Megan\u2019s\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0represents a measured and honest response to Brexit, and the entire thing is one home run paragraph after the other. Here are a few\u00a0excerpts:<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s No Place Called \u201cTransNationalProfessionalistan\u201d Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms\u2014elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest\u2014will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All […]<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[5582,279,284,4285,6174],"class_list":["post-21350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-brexit","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350","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=21350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21351,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions\/21351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}