{"id":58566,"date":"2021-07-11T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58566"},"modified":"2021-07-11T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:29:18","slug":"the-blind-leading-the-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58566","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Leading the Clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"content-header fixed\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-header content-list-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/the-blind-leading-the-clueless\/\">The Blind Leading the Clueless<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content-thumb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fedyell.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fedyell.png 600w, https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fedyell-300x170.png 300w\" alt=\"Blind leading the clueless\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><em>(Gregory Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard, interviews Janet Yellen.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of us watch television. In part, we seek to be entertained, but, additionally, we often seek to be enlightened as to \u201cwhat\u2019s going on.\u201d In a difficult era like the present one, in which some of the most prominent countries are experiencing the onset of an economic crisis, virtual cartoon characters are competing as choices in political contests, governments are becoming increasingly rapacious and a police state is developing rapidly, it\u2019s not surprising if the average person questions, \u201cWhat on earth are they thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s no shortage of media exposure to answer that question. Today, there are a multitude of channels offering 24\/7 \u201cnews,\u201d from which we may hope to glean some insight as to what the leaders of the world are thinking. Yet, in spite of the endless folderol being offered, the leadership vision remains about as clear as mud.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t want war, but are invading more countries than ever before in history. Political hopefuls are vague at best regarding their proposed platforms for action, yet they attack each other as though they\u2019re reporters for the tabloids. Governments continually speak of their wish to lighten the load on the common man, whilst heaping laws, regulations, fines and taxes on him like never before,\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0whilst heaping billions in tax dollars on their cronies in the financial industry. They claim to seek greater security for all, but instead, create an endless stream of agencies that have the authority to ignore basic rights and behave more like Mafia shakedown operators than law enforcers. Governments claim to be pursuing a sounder economy, but have created an unprecedented level of debt, that promises to crush the economies of several of the world\u2019s most prominent countries in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blind Leading the Clueless (Gregory Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard, interviews Janet Yellen.) Most of us watch television. In part, we seek to be entertained, but, additionally, we often seek to be enlightened as to \u201cwhat\u2019s going on.\u201d In a difficult era like the present one, in which some of the most prominent [&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":[6228,11658],"class_list":["post-58566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566","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=58566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58567,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566\/revisions\/58567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}