{"id":59403,"date":"2021-09-20T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59403"},"modified":"2021-09-20T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T12:02:47","slug":"talkin-about-armageddon-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59403","title":{"rendered":"Talkin\u2019 About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/09\/20\/talkin-about-armageddon-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Talkin\u2019 About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10492\" class=\"post-10492 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-china tag-climate tag-cold-war tag-ecocide tag-narrative-matrix tag-nuclear-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-1-1.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-1-1-768x430.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/talkin-about-armageddon\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1127686192&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>The fact that our world is hurtling toward man-made obliteration on multiple fronts should probably occupy more of our conversational bandwidth than it does.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>My basic overall position is that humanity is about to end itself via climate chaos or nuclear war due to global capitalism and oligarchic imperialism, that propaganda prevents people from rising up to stop this, and our only path out is a mass-scale psychological transformation.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever been curious why I don\u2019t write more about this or that subject, it\u2019s usually because the above is my area of focus. Everything I write points to this in some way. That\u2019s what I do here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of narratives circulating about what\u2019s really happening between the US and China and whether the aggressions are actually as dangerous as they seem, and all of these narratives are rendered moot by the undeniable buildup of US military weaponry around China.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re more concerned about China\u2019s domestic affairs than your own country\u2019s aggressive foreign policy toward China it\u2019s because you\u2019ve been propagandized. Change your media consumption habits accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Not even the craziest imperialists want a hot war with China. They\u2019d much rather China to bow and be absorbed into the US-centralized empire as so many other nations before, or to collapse and fragment after a decades-long subversion campaign\u00a0\u00e0 la the USSR. In that order.<\/p>\n<p>The empire will happily make life miserable for Chinese people in coming decades to pressure Beijing into accepting that it\u2019s in the people\u2019s interests that the PRC kiss the ring. The problem of course is that China will be resisting these maneuvers in ways that can easily blow up in catastrophic ways&#8230;<\/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>Talkin\u2019 About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The fact that our world is hurtling toward man-made obliteration on multiple fronts should probably occupy more of our conversational bandwidth than it does. \u2756 My basic overall position is that humanity is about to end [&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":[4,5,6,7],"tags":[4786,17039,130,141,1230,29490,581,827],"class_list":["post-59403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-armageddon","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-chaos","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-nuclear-war","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403","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=59403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59404,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403\/revisions\/59404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}