{"id":53570,"date":"2020-06-10T07:38:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53570"},"modified":"2020-06-10T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:38:09","slug":"police-protests-and-human-transformation-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53570","title":{"rendered":"Police, Protests, And Human Transformation: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/06\/10\/police-protests-and-human-transformation-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Police, Protests, And Human Transformation: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/medium-12.jpg?fit=720%2C508&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the many good things coming out of these protests is a widening mainstream awareness of what a garbage president Obama was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWithout the police you\u2019d have vigilantism!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vigilantism? You mean like when a band of armed thugs inflict extrajudicial violence upon someone who pissed them off? Like the police do constantly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right wingers seem completely incapable of distinguishing between the ideology that\u2019s all about holding massive demonstrations with the goal of dismantling the police and the ideology that\u2019s all about kneeling in front of cameras wearing Kente cloth. This makes cross-ideological communication nearly impossible, about this subject and many others as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainstream America learning that their country is a militarized authoritarian police state is not what the narrative managers wanted. Blows my mind that this isn\u2019t more obvious to more analysts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If these massive protests look suspicious to you, it\u2019s because they conflict with your expectations of what an expression of grassroots energy would look like. If they conflict with your expectations of what an expression of grassroots energy would look like, it\u2019s because you\u2019re out of touch with where the zeitgeist is at. If you\u2019re out of touch with where the zeitgeist is at, it\u2019s time to revise your media viewing habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two ways of looking at these protests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elite manipulators are controlling them, and are shoring up more control.<\/li><li>Elite manipulators are not in control of them, and are losing control.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe #1 then the establishment institutions expressing support for the protests are doing so because they like them. If you believe #2 then they\u2019re doing it with the goal of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/the-democratic-party-exists-to-co-opt-and-kill-authentic-change-movements-c30898cb2677\">mollifying, neutralizing and co-opting<\/a>&nbsp;(see entire Obama administration). Given that we\u2019re talking about a dying empire, #2 seems much more likely to me.<\/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>Police, Protests, And Human Transformation: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix One of the many good things coming out of these protests is a widening mainstream awareness of what a garbage president Obama was. ~ \u201cWithout the police you\u2019d have vigilantism!\u201d Vigilantism? You mean like when a band of armed thugs inflict extrajudicial [&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":[17039,29856,24058,14545,632,657],"class_list":["post-53570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-elite-manipulation","tag-global-protests","tag-narrative-control","tag-police","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570","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=53570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53571,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570\/revisions\/53571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}