{"id":50563,"date":"2020-01-15T20:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50563"},"modified":"2020-01-15T20:58:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T01:58:38","slug":"surfs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50563","title":{"rendered":"Surf\u2019s Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Surf\u2019s Up!<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The wave of change is finally here. Are you prepared to ride it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing seems right anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In whichever direction we choose to look, things are unraveling at a quickening pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the Fourth Turning<\/a>; and with it, a profound loss of trust in institutions and government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such lack of social cohesion is a hallmark of a Fourth Turning. Sadly, it\u2019s happening at a time when society desperately needs to pull together, set aside our differences, and make some really big decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dirty Hands Everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my own part, my loss of trust in what is termed the \u2018mainstream media\u2019 (MSM) is nearly complete.  Its sins of omission and commission have piled up too high to forgive \u2013 the bank of trust I once had in it has lost every penny and is now in deep overdraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion its gravest sin is the willful and deliberate fracturing of society into many disparate warring camps. The MSM has a lot to answer for in that regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly guilty is our political system.  The core power players are unable to hold each other accountable, revealing that we don\u2019t have two parties after all, but rather a uniparty organized around power and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rules are increasingly re-written to benefit a smaller and smaller group of elites at the expense of everyone else \u2014 and that\u2019s now becoming increasingly crystal clear to the 99.9% who are getting screwed. The corrosive effects of that are going to take decades to resolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, the social fabric is rending apart.  Stress is epidemic with more people than ever reporting being unhappy, unfulfilled, isolated and alone.  Suicide is the second leading cause of death.  It\u2019s worse than just depression, it\u2019s something far more insidious \u2014 it\u2019s demoralization. There\u2019s no hope left any more for too many of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Dying Ecosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surf\u2019s Up! The wave of change is finally here. Are you prepared to ride it? Nothing seems right anymore. In whichever direction we choose to look, things are unraveling at a quickening pace. Welcome to the Fourth Turning; and with it, a profound loss of trust in institutions and government. Such lack of social cohesion is […]<\/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":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[246,24155,305,328,329,496,2218,7017,1138],"class_list":["post-50563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-economy","tag-ecosphere","tag-federal-reserve","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-fourth-turning","tag-mainstream-media","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-species-extinction","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563","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=50563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50564,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563\/revisions\/50564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}