{"id":3907,"date":"2015-01-02T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2015-01-02T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:55:39","slug":"the-archdruid-report-the-cold-wet-mackerel-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"The Archdruid Report: The Cold Wet Mackerel of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Archdruid Report: The Cold Wet Mackerel of Reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To misuse a bit of prose from Charles Dickens, it was neither the best of times nor the worst of times, but I know very few people who will object when, a few hours from now, 2014 gets dragged off to the glue factory.\u00a0\u00a0This has not been a good year for most people in the United States. By all accounts, this year\u2019s holiday season was an economic flop of considerable scale\u2014the US media, which normally treats cheery corporate press releases with the same enforced credulity that\u00a0Pravda<\/i>used to give to pronouncements from the Politburo in the Soviet era, has had to admit that Black Friday sales were down hard this year, even counting the internet\u2014and plenty of Americans outside the echo chambers of the media have very good reasons to worry about what 2015 will bring.\n<\/div>\n
Mind you,\u00a0cheerleading of a distinctly\u00a0Pravda<\/i>-esque variety<\/a>\u00a0can still be heard from those pundits and politicians who are still convinced thatpeople can be talked into ignoring their own experience<\/a>\u00a0if they can only be force-fed enough spin-doctored malarkey. That sort of enthusiasm for the glorious capitalist banker\u2019s paradise has plenty of company just now; I\u2019m thinking in particular of the steady drumbeat of articles and essays in the US mass media wondering aloud why so many Americans haven\u2019t noticed the economic recovery of the last four years, and are still behaving as though there\u2019s a recession on.<\/div>\n
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The Archdruid Report: The Cold Wet Mackerel of Reality. To misuse a bit of prose from Charles Dickens, it was neither the best of times nor the worst of times, but I know very few people who will object when, a few hours from now, 2014 gets dragged off to the glue factory.\u00a0\u00a0This has not […]<\/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":[1799,236,512,655],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bubbles","tag-economic-collapse","tag-media","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}