{"id":53804,"date":"2020-06-22T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53804"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:36:50","slug":"the-illusion-of-control-what-if-nobodys-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53804","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion of Control: What If Nobody&#8217;s in Charge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/the-illusion-of-control-what-if-nobodys.html\">The Illusion of Control: What If Nobody&#8217;s in Charge?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The last shred of power the elites hold is the belief of the masses that the elites are still in control.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I understand the natural desire to believe somebody&#8217;s in charge:<\/strong>\u00a0whether it&#8217;s the Deep State, the Chinese Communist Party, the Kremlin or Agenda 21 globalists, we&#8217;re primed to believe somebody somewhere is controlling events or pursuing agendas that drive global responses to events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I submit whatever control we discern is illusory, as the dynamics unleashed by the pandemic have already escaped the control of elites.<\/strong>\u00a0The fundamental reason the elites have lost control is that all the systems they depend on have been broken for 12 years, but were successfully papered over by\u00a0<em>doing more of what broke them in the first place.<\/em>\u00a0This papering over of broken systems generated an\u00a0<em>illusion of functionality<\/em>: everything appeared to function as before even as dysfunction spread into every corner of every system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As\u00a0<em>doing more of what broke the systems in the first place<\/em>\u00a0is failing, the\u00a0<em>illusion of functionality<\/em>\u00a0has been shredded.<\/strong>\u00a0Now that the\u00a0<em>illusion of functionality<\/em>\u00a0has been lost, control of the narrative via institutional authority has also been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I&#8217;ve often written about the difference between\u00a0<em>force<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>power<\/em>;<\/strong>\u00a0elites often mistakenly believe the two are equivalent, but they are worlds apart. Those who wield\u00a0<em>power<\/em>\u00a0persuade the masses to obey without being coerced, and to accept the self-serving narratives of the elite without question.\u00a0<em>Power<\/em>\u00a0leverages institutional authority and cultural myths and beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Force<\/em>\u00a0is costly, as coercion is costly.<\/strong>\u00a0Force is a poor substitute for power, not only because the costs are so burdensome, but because the masses are not acting on their own volition; they are obeying only because the costs of not obeying are so high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illusion of Control: What If Nobody&#8217;s in Charge? The last shred of power the elites hold is the belief of the masses that the elites are still in control. I understand the natural desire to believe somebody&#8217;s in charge:\u00a0whether it&#8217;s the Deep State, the Chinese Communist Party, the Kremlin or Agenda 21 globalists, we&#8217;re [&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":[2384,587,643,6856],"class_list":["post-53804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-elite","tag-of-two-minds","tag-power","tag-systemic-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804","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=53804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53805,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804\/revisions\/53805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}