{"id":48563,"date":"2019-09-20T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48563"},"modified":"2019-09-20T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:36:56","slug":"notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48563","title":{"rendered":"Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/09\/20\/notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/medium-11.jpg?fit=780%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most human suffering is due to believed mental stories, from the psychological suffering of the individual to the large-scale suffering caused by international power structures who advance violence and oppression via propaganda. We must evolve a new relationship with narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people\u2019s lives are dominated by mental story, so whoever can control those stories controls the people. The good news is that all we need to do to reclaim our world from the controllers is to reclaim our stories. The barrier between us and freedom is as thin as a fairy tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I talk about fighting establishment narrative control a lot, not because it\u2019s the best way to change things, but because it\u2019s the&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>&nbsp;way. The public will never, ever use the power of their numbers to change things so long as they\u2019re being successfully propagandized not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are bulldozing a paradise while praying we go to Heaven when we die. We are killing off giant-brained leviathans in our own oceans whose mental lives we know little about while searching the stars for intelligent life. We are burning our home in our search for a sense of home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most condescending sound in the known universe is Bill Maher\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Biden could slip into a coma tomorrow and they\u2019d still wheel him out to the debates with the words \u201cNOT TRUMP\u201d scribbled on his forehead in sharpie. And he\u2019d continue to poll in the mid-to-high twenties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are about three years from watching President Biden say he\u2019s working with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to win the Cold War, soiling himself at the podium, and then CNN pundits earnestly discussing his similarities and differences to President Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Most human suffering is due to believed mental stories, from the psychological suffering of the individual to the large-scale suffering caused by international power structures who advance violence and oppression via propaganda. We must evolve a new relationship with narrative. 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