{"id":22340,"date":"2016-12-24T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T01:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22340"},"modified":"2016-12-24T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T01:33:23","slug":"2016-a-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22340","title":{"rendered":"2016 A Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/blog\/104753\/2016-year-review\">2016 A Year in Review<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe easiest thing to do on earth is not write.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~William Goldman, novelist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>I never would have believed it\u2014not in a million years\u2014but it happened: the Cubs won the World Series, and The Donald is our new president. Every December, I write a Year in Review<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0that\u2019s first posted on Chris Martenson\u2019s\u00a0&amp; Adam Taggart&#8217;s website\u00a0<em>Peak\u00a0<\/em><em>Prosperity<\/em><sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0and later at\u00a0<em>Zero Hedge<\/em>.<sup>3<\/sup>\u00a0What started as a few thoughts posted to a handful of wingnuts on Doug Noland\u2019s Prudent Bear message board has mutated into a detailed account of the year\u2019s events. Why write this beast? For me, it puts the seemingly disconnected events that pass through my consciousness, soon to be lost forever, into a more organized and durable form. Somebody said I should write a book. I just did. In a nutshell, this is a story of human follies and bizarre events. There are always plenty of those. Let others tell the feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/images\/yir2016-image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Figure 1. Malcolm McDowell as Alex in\u00a0<em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I try to identify themes that evolve. This year\u2019s theme was obviously defined by the election, which posed a real problem. I struggled to detect the signals through the noise. Many of my favorite analysts from whom I extract wisdom and pinch cool ideas spent the year trying to convince the world that one or more of the presidential candidates was an unspeakable wretch. I was groping for a metaphor to capture our shared experiences, rummaging through Quentin Tarantino scripts and Hieronymus Bosch landscapes for inspiration. \u201cRise of the Deplorables\u201d was tempting. Then it clicked. The term \u201cclockwork orange\u201d is a Cockney phrase indicating a bizarre incident that appears normal on the surface. The phrase was commandeered as the title of a 1971 dystopian film in which Malcolm McDowell\u2019s character Alex is brainwashed by being forced to watch the most grisly and horrifying of spectacles (Figure 1).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 A Year in Review \u201cThe easiest thing to do on earth is not write.\u201d ~William Goldman, novelist I never would have believed it\u2014not in a million years\u2014but it happened: the Cubs won the World Series, and The Donald is our new president. Every December, I write a Year in Review1\u00a0that\u2019s first posted on Chris [&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":[7],"tags":[2291,14617,11255,2218],"class_list":["post-22340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-2291","tag-clockwork-orange","tag-david-collum","tag-peak-prosperity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340","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=22340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22341,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions\/22341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}