{"id":41913,"date":"2018-12-22T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41913"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:47:36","slug":"2018-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41913","title":{"rendered":"2018 Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 Year in Review<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The year everything changed<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Every year, friend-of-the-site\u00a0David\u00a0Collum<\/a>\u00a0writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than our usual posts, but worth the time to read in full. A downloadable\u00a0pdf\u00a0of the full article is available here<\/a>, for those who prefer to do their power-reading offline. — cheers, Adam<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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David B. Collum<\/b>
\nBetty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology – <\/b>Cornell University<\/b>
\nEmail: dbc6@cornell.edu<\/b>
\nTwitter: @DavidBCollum<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cDave: You are roundly tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Danielle Dimartino Booth, former Fed advisor and founder of Quill Intelligence<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every December, I write a Year in Reviewref 1<\/sup> that\u2019s first posted on Chris Martenson & Adam Taggart\u2019s website Peak Prosperityref 2<\/sup> and later at ZeroHedge.ref 3<\/sup> This is my tenth, although informal versions go back further. It always presents a host of challenging questions like, \u201cWhy the hell do I do this?\u201d Is it because I am deeply conflicted for being a misogynist with sexual contempt\u2014both products of the systemic normalization of toxic masculinity perpetuated by an oppressively patriarchal societal structure? No. That\u2019s just crazy talk. More likely, narcissism and need for e-permanence deeply buried in my lizard brain demands surges of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that drives kings to conquer new lands, Jeff Bezos to make even more money, and Harvey Weinstein to do whatever that perv does. The readership has held up so far. Larry Summers said he \u201cfinished the first half.\u201d Even as a fib that\u2019s a dopamine cha-ching.<\/p>\n

“If you think you are too small to make an impact, try spending the night in a room with a mosquito.”<\/p>\n

~African proverb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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