{"id":51688,"date":"2020-03-09T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51688"},"modified":"2020-03-09T19:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:04:27","slug":"things-take-a-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51688","title":{"rendered":"Things Take a Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/things-take-a-turn\/\">Things Take a Turn<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the same time that most Americans set their clocks ahead this weekend, something more momentous shoved the world into an epic phase-change, and the modern era, with all its mighty baggage, was finally swept away, along with that single lost hour of darkness. We\u2019re in a new world, and one night later, out on the freeway of history, the engine of the global economy threw a rod. The chauffeur is still standing alongside the stricken vehicle in the breakdown lane, scratching his head while sour-smelling smoke wafts up from the hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019d think that truly earthshaking events like that might change the so-called narrative, but&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;was at it again this morning with this front-page op-ed purporting to explain all the sorrows of our times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Transphobia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Transphobia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11955\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s how out-of-it the narrators are, even while a thuggish reality whapped them repeatedly upside the head with a two-by-four for weeks leading up to this. No, Dean Baquet (<em>NYT<\/em>&nbsp;ed-in-chief), transphobia does not explain the quandaries of our time, any more than sorcery or the wickedness of black cats explained the plagues of the 1300s that put a chapter of the human story to rest and started a new one. That elaborate machine of globalism just never figured on a situation when so many people in all corners of the world would have to hunker down in place to wait out one of Gaia\u2019s super-weapons \u2014 though it is still not known if corona virus was actually created by Gaia\u2019s wards,&nbsp;<em>H<\/em><em>omo sapiens<\/em>, themselves, who are suddenly feeling the blowback.<\/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>Things Take a Turn Around the same time that most Americans set their clocks ahead this weekend, something more momentous shoved the world into an epic phase-change, and the modern era, with all its mighty baggage, was finally swept away, along with that single lost hour of darkness. We\u2019re in a new world, and one [&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":[2,7],"tags":[14964,4670,449],"class_list":["post-51688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-globalism","tag-james-howard-kunstler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688","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=51688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51689,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688\/revisions\/51689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}