{"id":49620,"date":"2019-11-14T20:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T01:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49620"},"modified":"2019-11-14T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T01:20:59","slug":"peak-hubris-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49620","title":{"rendered":"Peak Hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/11\/14\/peak-hubris\/\">Peak Hubris<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/11\/Paradise_Lost_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116736\"\/><figcaption>Illustration for John Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost by Gustave Dor\u00e9 (1866) \u2013 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHubris\u201d is defined as rash and foolish pride, a dangerous overconfidence, manifested with arrogance.&nbsp; The Deep State vaunts our \u201cexceptionalism\u201d, and since Reagan\u2019s \u201cCity on a HIll\u201d trope Americans have been assured by all succeeding Presidents that ours is the \u201cindispensible nation\u201d. The word describes the way America sells itself to the world, and has for generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The yawning cognitive gap between our nomenklatura\u2019s relentless self-promotion and its pathetic history of botched, humiliating failures in every single act of Imperial overreach, demands examination.&nbsp; Are we at Peak Hubris?&nbsp; When exactly should the hubris of a vicious, lying, sloganeering criminal state be identified as what it is, a cover for unhinged stupidity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viz. the deranged, hysterical Democratic Party, a subsidiary of the Deep State, led\u2013if that term applies\u2013by a geriatric clutch of morally squalid throwbacks and vacuous nonentities, which has its Depends in a knot in the effort to blame the entire debacle of recent U.S. historic crime on the repulsive Yahoo squatting in the White House.\u00a0 As Einstein observed, all explanations should be as simple as possible\u2026but no simpler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of all the villainies attributed to Trump by Democrats and the Deep State\u2013the Power Elite, Establishment, Ruling Clique, Permanent Unelected Government\u2013the most egregious and only unforgivable one, is that his gross and vulgar bathos in Holy Office has exposed and profoundly embarrassed them, punching holes in their diligently crafted image.&nbsp; The Masters of Disaster can\u2019t tolerate open revelation of their evil, witness the methodical crushing of a roster of whistleblowers, among whom the most damning and brutally handled are Manning, Assange, and Snowden.&nbsp; Two are jailed on bogus \u201ccharges\u201d in peril of their lives, and Snowden is in exile, only free because the vengeful engine of American \u201cjustice\u201d can\u2019t nail him.<\/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>Peak Hubris \u201cHubris\u201d is defined as rash and foolish pride, a dangerous overconfidence, manifested with arrogance.&nbsp; The Deep State vaunts our \u201cexceptionalism\u201d, and since Reagan\u2019s \u201cCity on a HIll\u201d trope Americans have been assured by all succeeding Presidents that ours is the \u201cindispensible nation\u201d. 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