{"id":55361,"date":"2020-10-18T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55361"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:56:53","slug":"the-illusion-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55361","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion Is Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Illusion Is Failing<\/a><\/h3>\n

Trust in the system is vanishing fast<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sometimes the magic fails.<\/p>\n

The secret to the trick is accidentally revealed. The woman was always in the box.\u00a0 The eye is no longer deceived. And there\u2019s no getting the audience\u2019s sense of awe back.<\/p>\n

Just like a bungled illusion, once trust is broken, it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

For many during 2020, the loss of their jobs and businesses \u2014 in many cases due to incompetent government management of the pandemic \u2014 has been both a blessing and a curse.<\/p>\n

Of course nobody likes being laid off or losing a business they\u2019d carefully built up over the years.<\/p>\n

But for a significant number of those people, however, they\u2019ve now been given time (against their will, admittedly) to reflect and realize how much they hated their work in the first place.\u00a0 For them, the illusion has been broken.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t go back to pretending their former lives were acceptable or tolerable, and they\u2019re actively looking for employment that better fits their values.\u00a0 Time for something new.<\/p>\n

Others have realized how much they really disliked what air travel had devolved into. With its demeaning theater of faux displays of \u2018safety\u2019\u2013 being groped by TSA agents and having to perform a striptease to get personal items through the security scanners.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of these folks.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be traveling a lot less in the future, no matter what happens with the SARS-2 virues. I\u2019ll be content to stay local and conduct my business via Zoom calls as much as can possibly be done.\u00a0 I won\u2019t miss the pat-downs, delays, crowded seats, and cancelled flights.<\/p>\n

Similarly, social media has now been revealed to be run by petulant sociopaths whose goal is for you to see exactly what content they want you to see, because that fits their profit incentive.\u00a0 But they do so under the guise of \u201cprotecting\u201d us from uninteresting or inappropriate material.<\/p>\n

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The Illusion Is Failing Trust in the system is vanishing fast Sometimes the magic fails. The secret to the trick is accidentally revealed. The woman was always in the box.\u00a0 The eye is no longer deceived. And there\u2019s no getting the audience\u2019s sense of awe back. Just like a bungled illusion, once trust is broken, […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[3596,2485,10950,17443,607,2218,815],"class_list":["post-55361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-chris-martenson","tag-illusion","tag-integrity","tag-magic","tag-pandemic","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55361","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=55361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55362,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55361\/revisions\/55362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}