{"id":48949,"date":"2019-10-11T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48949"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:21:19","slug":"in-memoriam-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48949","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/in-memorium-reality\/\">In Memoriam: Reality<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Golden Golem of Greatness shifted into mad bull overdrive for last night\u2019s Minneapolis fan rally, cussing and bellowing at the picadors of the Left who have been sticking lances in his neck for three years. Decorum is not Mr. Trump\u2019s strong suit, but then the bull is not sent into the ring to negotiate politely for his life. The&nbsp;<em>narrative<\/em>&nbsp;of the bullring is certain death. The bull must do what he can within his nature to dispute it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s in Mr. Trump\u2019s nature to act the part of a reality TV star, and, of course, it is the nature of reality TV shows to be unreal. That is perhaps the ruling paradox of life in the USA these days. Saturated in unreality, the spectators (also called \u201cvoters\u201d) flounder through a relentless barrage of narratives aimed at confounding them, with the unreal expectation that they can make sense of unreal things. In a place like Minneapolis of an October evening, you can go see the&nbsp;<em>Joker<\/em>&nbsp;movie or take in the President\u2019s rally \u2014 and come away with the same sense of hyper-unreality. We\u2019re no longer the nation we pretend to be and we don\u2019t know it. Jokers are wild and the joke\u2019s on us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it goes in these dangerous autumn days of The Fourth Turning. Something\u2019s got to give, and all indications are it will happen where few are looking at the moment: the sideshow of money and banking. When things start slip-sliding away over in that alternative universe, Mr. Trump will be propelled into the role he was cast for in 2016: bag-holder for economic collapse. <\/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>In Memoriam: Reality The Golden Golem of Greatness shifted into mad bull overdrive for last night\u2019s Minneapolis fan rally, cussing and bellowing at the picadors of the Left who have been sticking lances in his neck for three years. Decorum is not Mr. Trump\u2019s strong suit, but then the bull is not sent into the [&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":[2,6],"tags":[61,14964,7844,329,449],"class_list":["post-48949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-banking","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-donald-trump","tag-fourth-turning","tag-james-howard-kunstler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48949","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=48949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48950,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48949\/revisions\/48950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}