{"id":33328,"date":"2018-04-11T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33328"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:29:30","slug":"the-genies-out-of-the-bottle-eight-defining-trends-are-reversing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33328","title":{"rendered":"The Genie’s Out of the Bottle: Eight Defining Trends Are Reversing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Genie’s Out of the Bottle: Eight Defining Trends Are Reversing<\/a><\/h3>\n

Though the Powers That Be will attempt to placate or suppress the Revolt of the Powerless, the genies of political disunity and social disorder cannot be put back in the bottle.<\/i><\/p>\n

The saying “the worm has turned”<\/i> refers to the moment when the downtrodden have finally had enough, and turn on their powerful oppressors.<\/b>The worms have finally turned against the privileged elites — who have benefited so greatly from globalization, corruption, central bank stimulus and the profiteering of state-enforced cartels. It doesn\u2019t matter as much as the punditry assumes whether they are turning Left or Right; the important thing is that the powerless have finally started challenging their privileged overlords.<\/p>\n

Though the Powers That Be will attempt to placate or suppress the Revolt of the Powerless, the genies of political disunity and social disorder cannot be put back in the bottle. It took a generation of rising inequality, corruption and the erosion of opportunity to create a society of the protected<\/em> (the haves) and the unprotected<\/em> (the have-nots), and rubber-stamping more regulations and distributing Universal Basic Income (UBI) will not rebalance a system that is irrevocably out of balance.<\/p>\n

But the rise of resistance, as yet nascent, is only half the story: economic trends and<\/em>cycles<\/em> are turning as well, and even if the worms remain passively underground, these reversals will disrupt the status quo. The dominant narrative–the rightness, goodness and sustainability of endless growth of consumption and debt–will unravel, and the internal contradictions of this New Gilded Age (widening wealth\/income\/power inequality) will finally burst through the thin fa\u00e7ade of stability that\u2019s been patched together over the past nine years of \u201crecovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eight Key Trends\/Cycles Are Turning<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Genie’s Out of the Bottle: Eight Defining Trends Are Reversing Though the Powers That Be will attempt to placate or suppress the Revolt of the Powerless, the genies of political disunity and social disorder cannot be put back in the bottle. The saying “the worm has turned” refers to the moment when the downtrodden […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[127,3487,587,4204,19763,812],"class_list":["post-33328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-cycles","tag-of-two-minds","tag-powers-that-be","tag-trend-reversal","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33328","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=33328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33329,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33328\/revisions\/33329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}