{"id":31077,"date":"2018-02-16T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31077"},"modified":"2018-02-16T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:11:16","slug":"insanity-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31077","title":{"rendered":"Insanity Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Insanity Fatigue<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Oligarchs, though they speak of deconstructing the administrative state, actually increase deficits and the size and power of law enforcement and the military to protect their global business interests and ensure domestic social control. The parts of the state that serve the common good wither in the name of deregulation and austerity. The parts that promote the oligarchs\u2019 power expand in the name of national security, economic growth and law and order.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Chris Hedges,\u00a0The Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been checking in with this site in recent days, you may have wondered if I was on vacation. I\u2019m not. Rather, I\u2019ve been suffering from a bit of sluggishness and writers block, and it wasn\u2019t until I took some time to think about why earlier this morning that I was able to determine the cause of my affliction. The best way to describe what I\u2019ve been dealing with in recent days is insanity fatigue.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as if there\u2019s been a lack of news or things to talk about. There\u2019s plenty. The problem is I\u2019ve once again become exhausted and overwhelmed by the superficial stupidity and narcissism of our national political dialogue. I first expressed this sentiment about a year ago in the piece,\u00a0Lost in the Political Wilderness<\/a>, and the feeling came back in spades in recent days.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a year since I wrote that post and not much has changed. The political conversation, if you can call it that, remains largely polarized between two groups primarily focused on whether they support Trump or swear he\u2019s Putin\u2019s devilish puppet. One side insists he\u2019s going to Make America Great Again, while the other thinks everything was perfectly fine before his election, and all will be well as long as we can rid ourselves of his presence. Meanwhile, the oligarch class continues to loot and pillage at will.<\/p>\n

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Insanity Fatigue Oligarchs, though they speak of deconstructing the administrative state, actually increase deficits and the size and power of law enforcement and the military to protect their global business interests and ensure domestic social control. The parts of the state that serve the common good wither in the name of deregulation and austerity. The […]<\/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":[18603,18604,18605,7844,5730,4285,6174,599,18606,18607,18608,857],"class_list":["post-31077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-american-one-party-politics","tag-decentralized-future","tag-decentralized-paradigm","tag-donald-trump","tag-insanity","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-oligarchs","tag-one-party-political-system-us","tag-superficial-politics-usa","tag-usa-one-party-system","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077","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=31077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31078,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions\/31078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}