{"id":28370,"date":"2017-11-28T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28370"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:01:28","slug":"the-future-is-what-we-make-of-it-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28370","title":{"rendered":"The Future Is What We Make of It \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Future Is What We Make of It \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. \u2026 Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 James Baldwin<\/p>\n

2017 has been a really strange year for me. As tens of millions of my fellow Americans have experienced mental breakdowns following the election of Donald Trump, an unexpected sense of calm has come over me and I can\u2019t remember the last time I was this optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n

Importantly, the optimism I feel isn\u2019t the demented, tribal and transient sort that many people experience when their politician of choice wins an election. I strongly disliked both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and I refused to support or vote for either. As such, I already knew going into November 2016, that we\u2019d emerge on the other side with a dangerous authoritarian in power, and I mentally prepared myself to push back against whoever won. Although I think Trump is a terrible President and a fake populist, I think his winning the election might serve as the necessary kick in the ass our society needs in order to evolve.<\/p>\n

If Hillary Clinton had been elected, she would\u2019ve been given an incredible amount of slack from our depraved corporate media. In fact, the entire first year of her Presidency would\u2019ve been dominated by non-stop slobbering about how amazing it was that the U.S. chose a female leader. This would\u2019ve overshadowed anything she actually did and we\u2019d continue to hear endless platitudes about how exceptional America is from our corrupt, self-proclaimed \u201celites\u201d via the propaganda press machine. In short, Hillary Clinton would\u2019ve gotten a gigantic pass by the media class which claims to keep the public informed.<\/p>\n

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The Future Is What We Make of It \u2013 Part 1 Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. \u2026 Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. […]<\/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":[2384,341,4285,6174,1302],"class_list":["post-28370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-elite","tag-future","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-status-quo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370","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=28370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28371,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions\/28371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}