{"id":40211,"date":"2018-11-07T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40211"},"modified":"2018-11-07T07:58:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:58:38","slug":"its-not-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40211","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s Not the End of the World<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Periodically, I\u2019ll encounter someone who has read one of my essays and has decided not to pursue them further, stating, \u201cYou\u2019re one of those \u2018End of the world\u2019 guys. I can\u2019t be bothered reading the writings of someone who thinks we\u2019re all doomed. I have a more positive outlook than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In actual fact, I agree entirely with his latter two comments. I can\u2019t be bothered reading the thoughts of a writer who says we\u2019re all doomed, either. I, too, have a more positive outlook than that.<\/p>\n

My one discrepancy with such comments is that I don\u2019t by any<\/em> means think that the present state of events will lead to the end of the world, as he assumes.<\/p>\n

But then, neither am I na\u00efve enough to think that if I just hope for the best, the powers that be will cease to be parasitical and predatory out of sympathy for me. They will not.<\/p>\n

For any serious student of history, one of the great realisations that occurs at some point is that governments are inherently<\/em> controlling by nature. The more control they have, the more they desire and the more they pursue. After all, governments actually produce nothing<\/em>. They exist solely upon what they can extract from the people they rule over. Therefore, their personal success is not measured by how well they serve their people, it\u2019s measured by how much they can extract<\/em> from the people.<\/p>\n

And so, it\u2019s a given that all governments will pursue ever-greater levels of power over their minions up to and including the point of total dominance.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Not the End of the World Periodically, I\u2019ll encounter someone who has read one of my essays and has decided not to pursue them further, stating, \u201cYou\u2019re one of those \u2018End of the world\u2019 guys. I can\u2019t be bothered reading the writings of someone who thinks we\u2019re all doomed. I have a more positive […]<\/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":[2299,379,6228,11658,643],"class_list":["post-40211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-control","tag-government","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211","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=40211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40212,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211\/revisions\/40212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}