{"id":58838,"date":"2021-07-31T06:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58838"},"modified":"2021-07-31T06:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T11:51:06","slug":"its-about-the-system-not-the-individuals-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58838","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s About The System, Not The Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/07\/30\/its-about-the-system-not-the-individuals-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">It\u2019s About The System, Not The Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10293\" class=\"post-10293 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-class tag-government 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-15-1200x675.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-15-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-15-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-15-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-15-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-15.jpeg 1320w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/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\/its-about-the-system-not-the-individuals\"><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%2F1096961767&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>If the working class had as much class solidarity as the ruling class has there never would\u2019ve been a ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Stealing someone\u2019s labor is worse than stealing their property, because it\u2019s theft of their life; you can replace property if you want, but you can\u2019t replace hours of life. And rigging the system so people need to work longer hours in order to survive is this form of theft at mass scale.<\/p>\n<p>Right now it\u2019s ass backwards: people have to spend their lives away from their loved ones in pointless jobs, and if you tell the cop your employer stole hours from you he\u2019ll just shrug while if your employer tells the cop you stole a company iPad you\u2019ll be hauled off in chains.<\/p>\n<p>This would all be a lot less confusing if we said people get paid by the Life Unit instead of by the hour, because it makes it much clearer what you\u2019re actually trading. \u201cYou want a unit of my life for seven dollar bills and a quarter? Fuck you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Six months into Biden\u2019s presidency it\u2019s definitely not okay to be a grown adult and still believe Trump was a uniquely monstrous president.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Biden may be stopping all progress and breaking most of his campaign promises, but he did also campaign on bringing back the Obama years so in that sense he kept all his campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on individuals instead of the system creates the illusion that if you replaced the individuals you could fix the problems with the system. The individuals are symptoms of the disease.<\/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>It\u2019s About The System, Not The Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 If the working class had as much class solidarity as the ruling class has there never would\u2019ve been a ruling class. \u2756 Stealing someone\u2019s labor is worse than stealing their property, because [&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":[17039,14545,3899,31566,3721],"class_list":["post-58838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-ruling-class","tag-systemic-problems","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58838","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=58838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58839,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58838\/revisions\/58839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}