{"id":57591,"date":"2021-04-28T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57591"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:41:49","slug":"reject-mainstream-culture-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57591","title":{"rendered":"Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/04\/28\/reject-mainstream-culture-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9854\" class=\"post-9854 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-america tag-imperialism tag-mainstream tag-oscars tag-politics tag-usa\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-1-4.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-1-4.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-1-4.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-1-4.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-1-4.jpg?resize=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-1-4.jpg?resize=1100%2C550&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/reject-mainstream-culture-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\"><em>Listen to this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1038296506&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Hey remember when we learned that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2014\/09\/25\/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb\/\">the CIA unilaterally funds its own clandestine operations<\/a>\u00a0via drug trafficking without the permission or oversight of any elected body and then everyone went \u201cmeh\u201d and forgot about it?<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s strange how many westerners who grew up watching Star Wars still side with the evil empire on every foreign conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>A foreign policy perspective which does not begin with and account for the fact that the US government is the most powerful and destructive force on earth, and that its behaviors are aggressive instead of defensive in nature, is a foreign policy perspective based on fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>People tell me, \u201cYou just hate America!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t even know what this means. What specifically is it that I hate? The people? The dirt the country is built on? Or is it possible that my actual target is the most powerful and destructive government in the world and the oligarchy which runs it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate the USA\u201d is as nonsensical a statement as \u201cI love the USA\u201d; the land that label points to is so vast and its people so diverse that nobody can have any emotional relationship with it. Beyond that it\u2019s a just collection of conceptual constructs which exist only in our imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1385703715152142336&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F04%2F28%2Freject-mainstream-culture-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=750459f312fdde3152ec490b3d114fa9bf842d10&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=b5cd9ac%3A1619504549508&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1385703715152142336\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Americans: Help!<\/p>\n<p>Republicans: Fuck you.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats: We need to come together and have a conversation about the help you need because these things take time and there\u2019s a process and really it\u2019s not just about the what it\u2019s also about the how and the how sometimes gets lost in the what of the how of the how what how\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: \u2756 Hey remember when we learned that\u00a0the CIA unilaterally funds its own clandestine operations\u00a0via drug trafficking without the permission or oversight of any elected body and then everyone went \u201cmeh\u201d and forgot about it? \u2756 It\u2019s strange how many westerners [&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":[17039,31149,14545,29490],"class_list":["post-57591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-mainstream-culture","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57591","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=57591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57592,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57591\/revisions\/57592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}