{"id":36104,"date":"2018-07-21T06:35:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36104"},"modified":"2018-07-21T06:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:35:42","slug":"the-schizophrenic-deep-state-is-a-symptom-not-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36104","title":{"rendered":"The Schizophrenic Deep State is a Symptom, Not the Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Schizophrenic Deep State is a Symptom, Not the Disease<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If we understand the profound political disunity fracturing the nation and its Imperial Project, we understand the Deep State must also fracture along the same fault lines.<\/i><\/div>\n
If we consider the state of the nation from 40,000 feet, several key indicators of\u00a0profound political disunity within the elites<\/i>\u00a0pop out:<\/b><\/div>\n
1. The overt politicization of the central state’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies: it is now commonplace to find former top officials of the CIA et al. accusing a sitting president of treason in the mainstream media. What was supposed to be above politics is now nothing but politics.<\/div>\n
2. The overt politicization of the centralized (corporate) media: evidence that would stand up in a court of law is essentially non-existent but the interpretations and exaggerations that fit the chosen narrative are ceaselessly promoted–the classic definition of desperate propaganda by those who have lost the consent of the governed.<\/div>\n
The nation’s elites are not just divided–they’re exhibiting signs of schizophrenic breakdown<\/b>: disassociation and a loss of the ability to discern the difference between reality and their internal fantasies.<\/div>\n
I’ve been writing about the\u00a0divided Deep State<\/i>\u00a0for a number of years, for example,\u00a0The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare<\/a><\/b>. The topic appears to be one of widespread interest, as this essay drew over 300,000 views.<\/div>\n
It’s impossible to understand the\u00a0divided Deep State<\/i>\u00a0unless we situate it in the larger context of\u00a0profound political disunity<\/i><\/b>, a concept I learned from historian Michael Grant, whose slim but insightful volume\u00a0The Fall of the Roman Empire<\/a>\u00a0I have been recommending since 2009.<\/div>\n
As I noted in my 2009 book\u00a0Survival+<\/a>, this was a key feature of the Roman Empire in its final slide to collapse.<\/b><\/div>\n
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The Schizophrenic Deep State is a Symptom, Not the Disease If we understand the profound political disunity fracturing the nation and its Imperial Project, we understand the Deep State must also fracture along the same fault lines. If we consider the state of the nation from 40,000 feet, several key indicators of\u00a0profound political disunity within […]<\/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":[127,135,199,259,20945,496,587,827],"class_list":["post-36104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-empire","tag-imperial-project","tag-mainstream-media","tag-of-two-minds","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36104","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=36104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36105,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36104\/revisions\/36105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}