{"id":44840,"date":"2019-03-28T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44840"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:14:06","slug":"your-plans-for-revolution-dont-work-nothing-weve-tried-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44840","title":{"rendered":"Your Plans For Revolution Don\u2019t Work. Nothing We\u2019ve Tried Works."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your Plans For Revolution Don\u2019t Work. Nothing We\u2019ve Tried\u00a0Works.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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All the old ideas for uprooting the status quo have failed. I point this out not to depress people, but to persuade them to stop twisting on locked doorknobs. The old ideas don\u2019t work, so we need new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The political process has failed. Capitalism has failed. Socialism has failed. Libertarianism has failed. Marx has failed. Populism has failed. Anarchism has failed. I say this not because of any glaring flaws in any of those ideas (in theory any of them could potentially work in an alternate universe), but because we are hurtling towards extinction in the fairly near future, and none of them have saved us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut Caitlin!\u201d you may object. \u201cMy particular favorite ideology would have saved us long ago if only everyone had gotten on board with it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay. But they didn\u2019t. And now we\u2019re on the brink of armageddon. That means it has failed. It doesn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are well on our way to extinction via climate collapse or nuclear holocaust<\/a>, and even if we miss those by some miracle we are headed toward an artificial intelligence-led tech dystopia<\/a> in which our consciousness is permanently enslaved by a propaganda network that is far too advanced for there to be any hope of escaping into truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are witnessing\u00a0a mass extinction<\/a>\u00a0the likes of which we haven\u2019t seen since the end of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, with\u00a0some 200 species<\/a>\u00a0going extinct forever every single day. The very ecosystemic context in which we evolved is vanishing underneath us.\u00a0More than half the world\u2019s wildlife<\/a>\u00a0has vanished in forty years, and the worldwide insect population\u00a0has plummeted by as much as 90 percent<\/a>.\u00a0Fertile soil is vanishing<\/a>, and\u00a0so are forests<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your Plans For Revolution Don\u2019t Work. Nothing We\u2019ve Tried\u00a0Works. All the old ideas for uprooting the status quo have failed. I point this out not to depress people, but to persuade them to stop twisting on locked doorknobs. The old ideas don\u2019t work, so we need new ones. The political process has failed. Capitalism has […]<\/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":[4,5,6],"tags":[4786,17039,24245,24856,2715,685],"class_list":["post-44840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-armageddon","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-climate-collapse","tag-insect-population","tag-mass-extinction","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44840","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=44840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44841,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44840\/revisions\/44841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}