{"id":29212,"date":"2017-12-28T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29212"},"modified":"2017-12-28T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:34:02","slug":"reflections-on-2017-a-personal-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29212","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on 2017 \u2013 A Personal Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reflections on 2017 \u2013 A Personal Journey<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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2017 was a tumultuous and extremely binary year for a considerable number of Americans. For those who thought everything was going swimmingly during the Obama years, Trump\u2019s election wasn\u2019t simply a shock to the system, but an extinction level event for civilization that handed the U.S. government to bunch of Putin-controlled fascists. In stark contrast, Trump\u2019s election was seen as divine deliverance by\u00a0his devoted cheerleaders and red hat wearing obsessives. Finally, someone from outside the swamp had successfully trash-talked their way into the Presidency. As such, an imminent restoration of American greatness is all but assured.<\/p>\n

Naturally, neither one of these perspectives is remotely accurate. They\u2019re just distinct fairytales that quarreling groups of Americans have enthusiastically embraced within an increasingly insane and divided political environment. The societal pressure to self-segregate into either passionate support for \u201cThe Resistance\u201d or \u201cTrumpism\u201d was overwhelming all year and has continued to this day. I recognized this early on, and wrote about it back in February.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt from that piece,\u00a0Lost in the Political Wilderness:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the U.S. citizenry is being afflicted by a sort of mass insanity at the moment. There are no good outcomes if this continues. As a result, I feel compelled to provide a voice for those of us lost in the political wilderness. We must persevere and not be manipulated into the obvious and nefarious divide and conquer tactics being aggressively unleashed across the societal spectrum. If we lose our grounding and our fortitude, who will be left to speak for those of us who simply don\u2019t fit into any\u00a0of the currently\u00a0ascendant\u00a0political ideologies?<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Little did I know it at the time, but the sentiments expressed in that piece, coupled with the four-part series on Spiral Dynamics<\/a> that followed, would result in profound changes to my overall outlook on life and the evolution of this website.<\/p>\n

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