{"id":59308,"date":"2021-09-13T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59308"},"modified":"2021-09-13T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:40:40","slug":"manufacturing-dystopia-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59308","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/09\/13\/manufacturing-dystopia-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10463\" class=\"post-10463 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-military tag-narrative-matrix tag-oligarchy tag-war\">\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\/09\/medium-1.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1-800x600.jpeg 800w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/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\/manufacturing-dystopia\"><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%2F1123595983&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>We live in a world of manufactured lack, manufactured enemies, manufactured crises and manufactured consent. We\u2019ve had sufficient resources to care for everyone for generations. All our wars are based on lies. All our problems are cooked up by a few psychos with too much power.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Ever since he came to Australia my American husband still finds it strange to see a parrot out in the open instead of sitting in a cage. I feel much the same whenever I see George W Bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The capitalist class has never voluntarily returned anything it has stolen from the working class; every time it manages to give people less it never reverses it, no matter how much greater profits become. Capitalism is never going to get less abusive. It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/oureconomy\/conspiracy-theories-aside-there-something-fishy-about-great-reset\/\">will only grow more so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>If there were good billionaires they wouldn\u2019t still be billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to be a good billionaire, not just because it\u2019s immoral to remain that wealthy in a world full of need and because all billionaires are parasitic middlemen siphoning the profits off other people\u2019s labor, but also because in order to obtain that much wealth you generally have to manipulate the actual movement of human civilization to your benefit in some way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re anti-American!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No I\u2019m anti-war, anti-militarism, anti-empire, anti-ecocide, anti-oligarchy, anti-capitalism and anti nuclear brinkmanship. It just happens that the US is at the center of a globe-spanning power structure that is the worst offender on all these fronts by an extremely wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The most evil and destructive things Trump did as president weren\u2019t the Trumpian things but the American things. The things his predecessors and his successor are also guilty of doing.<\/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>Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 We live in a world of manufactured lack, manufactured enemies, manufactured crises and manufactured consent. We\u2019ve had sufficient resources to care for everyone for generations. All our wars are based on lies. All our problems are cooked [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,29490,827,3142],"class_list":["post-59308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308","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=59308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59309,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308\/revisions\/59309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}