{"id":46665,"date":"2019-06-15T17:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46665"},"modified":"2019-06-15T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T22:51:41","slug":"waiting-for-the-black-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46665","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For The Black Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/waiting-for-the-black-swan\/\">Waiting For The Black Swan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>War with Iran would be the beginning of the end<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two more tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday morning\u00a0 (6\/13\/19) in the Gulf of Oman, and if hostilities advance we could be facing a \u2018black swan\u2019 event. One that changes everything, and divides the world into \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of us are waiting for \u2018something\u2019 to happen. We know that there are too many unsustainable trends and practices running and we fall into the \u201clet\u2019s just rip the Band-Aid off\u201d camp.&nbsp; &nbsp;Some, like myself, have lost faith in the political leadership and institutions and doubt they retain any capacity to attend to anything more than their own selfish interests, let alone manage the difficult tasks ahead rooted as they are in systems theory and managing complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let\u2019s get on with it already.&nbsp; Bring it on.&nbsp; Black swans are welcome to those who feel a swift kick to the behind is sometimes needed to begin setting things straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many, I am also conflicted because I also know that getting onto a new path will be disruptive and probably quite economically and financially painful for everyone, myself included.&nbsp; Hoping for \u2018something to break\u2019 and hoping nothing breaks hang in an uneasy balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, my hopes and wishes have nothing to do with what\u2019s going to happen, or when.&nbsp; I might as well be performing a secret hand ritual before the TV in my living room to ensure that my team\u2019s basketball free-throw goes in.&nbsp; The dry tinder of the next bonfire was laid down over many years and decades and it will catch fire when it does, no matter how much denial or how many superstitious practices we employ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting For The Black Swan War with Iran would be the beginning of the end Two more tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday morning\u00a0 (6\/13\/19) in the Gulf of Oman, and if hostilities advance we could be facing a \u2018black swan\u2019 event. One that changes everything, and divides the world into [&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":[5],"tags":[77,3596,195,441,588,5963,614,2218,1264,9311,862],"class_list":["post-46665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-black-swan","tag-chris-martenson","tag-debt","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-oman","tag-paul-krugman","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-recession","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665","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=46665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46666,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665\/revisions\/46666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}