{"id":41750,"date":"2018-12-17T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41750"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:37:01","slug":"the-empires-sea-of-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41750","title":{"rendered":"The Empire\u2019s Sea of Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/straightlinelogic.com\/2018\/12\/16\/the-empires-sea-of-woes-by-robert-gore\/\">The Empire\u2019s Sea of Woes<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eyeforpharmadrupalfs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tidal.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The noose cinches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second-rate George H.W. Bush got a first-rate Washington send-off. For one day it interrupted the downtrend in equity markets. It may mark the US apotheosis of inflated grandiosity. Across the Atlantic, Emmanuel Macron, pretentious popinjay of Gallic grandiosity, has gotten a deserved comeuppance. Brexit, Trump\u2019s election, and nationalist uprisings in Southern and Eastern Europe apparently insufficient warning to the globalists who would rule us, the French rioters are sending yet another wake-up call. If that\u2019s not enough, so too are many of the nations outside the Euro-American welfare state asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The crazies\u2019 kings, queens, and courtiers face a dwindling inheritance and mounting debt, but spend lavishly to keep up appearances. Falling markets and rioting taxpayers are unwelcome reminders that the money\u2019s running out, leaving behind a stack of IOUs that won\u2019t be paid. The aristocracy wants to offload the pain to the peasantry, but the riots demonstrate that the peasantry has other ideas. Our betters also want to blame their sea of woes on Eurasia\u2019s leaders, but Russia, China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran are having none of that. They are, however, delighted to see the West crumbling and will do nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Empire is America\u2019s noose, hubris America\u2019s curse. Once upon a time it didn\u2019t matter much to the American people or their politicians what happened in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or even Europe. During the nineteenth century, for the most part we minded our own business, and what a business it turned out to be. America became the world\u2019s industrial, technological, and commercial powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Success may be the hardest human condition to endure. Few individuals withstand it. For empires, it\u2019s always temporary. They fail and topple from the pinnacle with monotonous regularity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire\u2019s Sea of Woes The noose cinches. Second-rate George H.W. Bush got a first-rate Washington send-off. For one day it interrupted the downtrend in equity markets. It may mark the US apotheosis of inflated grandiosity. Across the Atlantic, Emmanuel Macron, pretentious popinjay of Gallic grandiosity, has gotten a deserved comeuppance. Brexit, Trump\u2019s election, and [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,5,6,7],"tags":[22413,5582,130,195,7844,15342,259,281,1849,333,441,522,12280,694,12281,818,827,865],"class_list":["post-41750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-aristrocracy","tag-brexit","tag-china","tag-debt","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-empire","tag-europe","tag-financial-markets","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-robert-gore","tag-russia","tag-straight-line-logic","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750","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=41750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41751,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions\/41751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}