{"id":27161,"date":"2017-10-23T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27161"},"modified":"2017-10-23T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:21:22","slug":"if-you-want-to-understand-the-next-10-years-study-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27161","title":{"rendered":"If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Some of you may be confused as to why a U.S. citizen living in Colorado has become so completely obsessed with what\u2019s going on in Spain. Bear with me, there\u2019s a method to my madness.<\/p>\n

I believe what\u2019s currently happening in Spain represents a crucial microcosm for what we\u2019ll see sweep across the entire planet over the next ten years. Some of you will want to have a discussion about who\u2019s right and who\u2019s wrong in this particular affair, but that\u2019s besides the point. It doesn\u2019t matter which side you favor, what matters is that Madrid\/Catalonia is an example of the forces of centralization duking it out with forces of decentralization.<\/p>\n

Madrid represents the nation-state as we know it, with its leaders claiming Spain is forever indivisible according to the constitution. Madrid has essentially proclaimed there\u2019s no possible avenue to independence from a centralized Spain even if various regions decide in large number they wish to be independent. This sort of attitude will be\u00a0seen as unacceptable and primitive by\u00a0increasingly large numbers of humans in the years ahead. Catalonia should be seen as a canary in the coal mine. The forces of decentralization are rising, but entrenched centralized institutions and the bureaucrats running them will become increasingly terrified, panicked and oppressive.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve discussed, this isn\u2019t coming out of nowhere. Humanity\u2019s current established centralized institutions and nation-states have become clownishly corrupt, merely existing to protect and enrich the powerful\/connected as opposed to benefiting the population at large. As such, legitimacy has been shattered and people have begun to demand a new way. Whether we see this with the rising popularity of Bitcoin, or the UK decision to leave the EU, evidence is everywhere and we\u2019ve already passed the point of no return. This is precisely why EU leaders are rallying around Madrid. They\u2019re scared to death and fear they might be next. They\u2019re probably right.<\/p>\n

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If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain Some of you may be confused as to why a U.S. citizen living in Colorado has become so completely obsessed with what\u2019s going on in Spain. Bear with me, there\u2019s a method to my madness. I believe what\u2019s currently happening in Spain represents a […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[117,1670,1769,15199,279,284,968,4285,495,6174,9981,743],"class_list":["post-27161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-centralization","tag-corruption","tag-decentralization","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-independence","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-madrid","tag-michael-krieger","tag-nation-states","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27161","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=27161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27162,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27161\/revisions\/27162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}