{"id":4290,"date":"2015-01-09T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2015-01-09T07:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:29:44","slug":"2015-the-war-on-our-intuition-that-something-is-fundamentally-amiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/2015-war-intuition-something-fundamentally-amiss.html\" target=\"_blank\">2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>In 1967, the rock group Buffalo Springfield recorded a song titled\u00a0<a title=\"For What It\u2019s Worth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY&amp;list=RDgp5JCrSXkJY#t=0\" target=\"resource\">For What It\u2019s Worth<\/a>which speaks not just to the late 1960s but to the present.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Consider the opening lines:<\/p>\n<p><i>There\u2019s something happening here<br \/>\nWhat it is ain\u2019t exactly clear<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>The ambiguity is not coincidental.<\/b>When the song was recorded in December 1966, America was in the beginning throes of a full-blown\u00a0<i>national nervous breakdown<\/i>\u00a0that would endure for 15 years until 1981.<\/p>\n<p><b>The fundamental narratives that had sustained the previous 20 years of apparently limitless prosperity and moral certitude were breaking down.<\/b>The primary narrative of American foreign policy\u2013that the U.S. defended liberty and always won its foreign wars over evil totalitarianism\/ fascism\/ colonialism was being destroyed on a daily basis in Vietnam, an intrinsically political (and thus unwinnable by military means) war defending a hopelessly corrupt state created by quasi-colonial\u00a0<i>Great Powers<\/i>\u00a0fiat.<\/p>\n<p>The primary political narrative\u2013that democracy and the rule of law were sacrosanct\u2013were undermined by the Watergate affair a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss In 1967, the rock group Buffalo Springfield recorded a song titled\u00a0For What It\u2019s Worthwhich speaks not just to the late 1960s but to the present. Consider the opening lines: There\u2019s something happening here What it is ain\u2019t exactly clear The ambiguity is not coincidental.When [&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":[6],"tags":[2523,204,2524,1589],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ambiguity","tag-democracy","tag-political-narrative","tag-rule-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","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=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}