{"id":58659,"date":"2021-07-18T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58659"},"modified":"2021-07-18T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:18:38","slug":"youre-not-supposed-to-trust-the-government-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58659","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/07\/18\/youre-not-supposed-to-trust-the-government-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">You\u2019re Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10210\" class=\"post-10210 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-america tag-biden tag-censorship tag-cuba tag-empire tag-government tag-narrative-matrix tag-politics\">\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:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-9-1200x683.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-9-1200x683.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-9-300x171.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-9-768x437.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-9-1024x582.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-9.jpeg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"683\" \/><\/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\/youre-not-supposed-to-trust-the-government\"><em>Listen to a reading of 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%2F1089694033&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>I still can\u2019t get over how brazen the Biden administration is being in just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-us-government-threatens-tech\">announcing that it\u2019s their place<\/a>\u00a0to determine who should be banned from social media platforms and how little backlash there is against this.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine the outrage if Trump had done this. Seriously, imagine it.\u00a0The Biden administration instructing the world\u2019s largest social media platform who to censor is the biggest \u201cImagine if Trump had done that\u201d moment so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>They said we need internet censorship because of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>They said we need internet censorship because of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>They said we need internet censorship because of election security.<\/p>\n<p>They said we need internet censorship because of the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>They said we need internet censorship because of domestic extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure they just want internet censorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The US government is without exception the single most corrupt and destructive force on this planet. It is the very last institution on earth who should be in charge of deciding what online content is true or false. Absolute dead last.<\/p>\n<p>I trust the wisdom of the collective to sort out what\u2019s true infinitely more than I trust the wisdom of the US government and Silicon Valley plutocrats to do it for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>If people think their government is lying to them and trying to hurt them it is entirely the fault of the government and no one else.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not\u00a0<em>supposed<\/em>\u00a0to trust the government, and governments aren\u2019t supposed to act in a way that requires your trust. If you find yourself ruled by a secretive power structure which demands your blind faith in its righteousness, something has gone horribly wrong.<\/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>You\u2019re Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 I still can\u2019t get over how brazen the Biden administration is being in just\u00a0announcing that it\u2019s their place\u00a0to determine who should be banned from social media platforms and how little backlash there [&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":[17039,379,815],"class_list":["post-58659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-government","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659","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=58659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58660,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659\/revisions\/58660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}