{"id":23342,"date":"2017-03-27T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2017-03-27T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:23:33","slug":"the-curse-of-the-thinking-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23342","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of the Thinking Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Curse of the Thinking Class<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Let\u2019s suppose there really is such a thing as The Thinking Class in this country, if it\u2019s not too politically incorrect to say so \u2014 since it implies that there is another class, perhaps larger, that operates only on some limbic lizard-brain level of impulse and emotion. Personally, I believe there is such a Thinking Class, or at least I have dim memories of something like it.<\/p>\n

The farfetched phenomenon of Trumpism has sent that bunch on a journey to a strange land of the intellect, a place like the lost island of Kong, where one monster after another rises out of the swampy murk to threaten the frail human adventurers. No one back home would believe the things they\u2019re tangling with: giant spiders, reptiles the size of front-end loaders, malevolent aborigines! Will any of the delicate humans survive or make it back home?<\/p>\n

This is the feeling I get listening to arguments in the public arena these days, but especially from the quarters formerly identified as left-of-center, especially the faction organized around the Democratic Party, which I aligned with long ago (alas, no more). The main question seems to be: who is responsible for all the unrest in this land. Their answer since halfway back in 2016: the Russians.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not comfortable with this hypothesis. Russia has a GDP smaller than Texas. If they are able to project so much influence over what happens in the USA, they must have some supernatural mojo-of-the-mind \u2014 and perhaps they do \u2014 but it raises the question of motive. What might Russia realistically get from the USA if Vladimir Putin was the master hypnotist that Democrats make him out to be?<\/p>\n

Do we suppose Putin wants more living space for Russia\u2019s people? Hmmmm. Russia\u2019s population these days, around 145 million, is less than half the USA\u2019s and it\u2019s rattling around in the geographically largest nation in the world.<\/p>\n

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The Curse of the Thinking Class Let\u2019s suppose there really is such a thing as The Thinking Class in this country, if it\u2019s not too politically incorrect to say so \u2014 since it implies that there is another class, perhaps larger, that operates only on some limbic lizard-brain level of impulse and emotion. Personally, I […]<\/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":[5080,449,15032],"class_list":["post-23342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democratic-party","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-thinking-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342","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=23342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23344,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions\/23344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}