{"id":35990,"date":"2018-07-16T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35990"},"modified":"2018-07-16T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:11:13","slug":"our-institutions-are-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35990","title":{"rendered":"Our Institutions Are Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Institutions Are Failing<\/a><\/h3>\n

Our institutional failure reminds me of the phantom legions of Rome’s final days. <\/i><\/p>\n

The mainstream media and its well-paid army of “authorities” \/ pundits would have us believe the decline in our collective trust in our institutions<\/b> is the result of fake news<\/i>, i.e. false narratives and data presented as factual.<\/p>\n

If only we could rid ourselves of fake news<\/i>, all would be well, as our institutions are working just fine.<\/p>\n

This mainstream narrative is itself false: our institutions are failing<\/b>, and the cause isn’t fake news<\/i> or Russian hacking–the cause is insider plundering and collusion, aided and abetted by a decline in transparency and accountability and the institutionalization of incompetence.<\/b><\/p>\n

In other words, the citizenry’s trust in institutions is declining because the failure of institutions is undeniably the fabric of everyday life in America.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you heard the top management of a university system take responsibility for the unprecedented rise in the cost of tuition and textbooks?<\/b> The short answer is “never.” The insiders benefiting from the higher-education cartel’s relentless exploitation of students and their families act as if the soaring costs are akin to cosmic radiation, a force of nature that they are powerless to control.<\/p>\n

The same can be said of every other cartel plundering the nation:<\/b> healthcare (i.e. sickcare, because profits swell from managing chronic illness, not from advancing health<\/i>); the Big Pharma cartel; the military-industrial complex; banking; student loans; the governance-lobbying cartels; the war-on-drugs gulag, the FBI and so on in an endless profusion of insiders whose self-serving plunder and gross incompetence rarely generates consequences (such as being fired or indicted) due to an absence of accountability and transparency.<\/p>\n

Incompetence has been institutionalized, and is now the accepted norm.<\/b>Schools fail, municipal agencies fail, oversight agencies fail, state agencies fail, and the public feels powerless to effect any systemic change.<\/p>\n

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Our Institutions Are Failing Our institutional failure reminds me of the phantom legions of Rome’s final days. The mainstream media and its well-paid army of “authorities” \/ pundits would have us believe the decline in our collective trust in our institutions is the result of fake news, i.e. false narratives and data presented as factual. […]<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[20908,127,20907,20906,496,587,20518,815],"class_list":["post-35990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-authorities","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-failing-institutions","tag-institutional-failure","tag-mainstream-media","tag-of-two-minds","tag-roma","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990","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=35990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35991,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990\/revisions\/35991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}