{"id":49931,"date":"2019-12-04T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49931"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:50:20","slug":"a-surefire-cure-for-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49931","title":{"rendered":"A Surefire Cure For Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/12\/04\/a-surefire-cure-for-despair\/\">A Surefire Cure For Despair<\/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\/12\/medium.jpg?fit=730%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI can\u2019t go on. I\u2019ll go on.\u201d<\/em><br><em>~ Samuel Beckett<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it just gets to be too goddamn much. You just finished a soul-draining argument with a family member who insists that Putin controls all major world events because that\u2019s what the TV said so it must be true, then you check the poll numbers for the upcoming elections in the US and UK and you see your favorite candidates just don\u2019t have the kind of numbers they\u2019re going to need, the latest revelation that the US and its allies deceived the world about what\u2019s happening in Syria has been completely swept under the rug by the establishment news churn, Bolivia has been taken over by US-backed Christian fascists, and now you\u2019re watching Mike Pompeo\u2019s stupid asshole face spouting some made-up bullshit about Iran that you know the news media will never hold him accountable for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s just too goddamn much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To become oppositional to the status quo is to enter into a long-term relationship with despair. It\u2019s not a monogamous relationship; you\u2019ll have the occasional affair with anger, a fling with fear, a rendezvous with rage, and every once in a while even a brief tryst with triumph. But you always end up drunkenly stumbling home to bed with the old ball-and-chain despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time you think you might have the bastards on the ropes, every time you see a shining crack in the cage, a glowing glitch in the matrix, it\u2019s quickly covered up by some gibberish about Russia or empty shrieking about Donald Trump, and then everyone\u2019s herded along into the next authorised imperial narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Surefire Cure For Despair \u201cI can\u2019t go on. I\u2019ll go on.\u201d~ Samuel Beckett Sometimes it just gets to be too goddamn much. You just finished a soul-draining argument with a family member who insists that Putin controls all major world events because that\u2019s what the TV said so it must be true, then you [&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":[6],"tags":[14,17039,259,643,669,1302],"class_list":["post-49931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activism","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-empire","tag-power","tag-reality","tag-status-quo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49931","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=49931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49932,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49931\/revisions\/49932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}