{"id":59857,"date":"2021-10-13T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59857"},"modified":"2021-10-13T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:48:33","slug":"we-are-headed-for-a-geopolitical-minsky-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59857","title":{"rendered":"We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta, Runnymede UK, 1215AD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Could This be a Blow-Off Top for Tyranny?<\/strong><\/p>\n

King John\u2019s military failure at the Battle of Bouvines triggered the barons\u2019 revolt, but the roots of their discontent lay much deeper. King John ruled England in a ruthless manner at a time when the instruments of government and the practices of the courts were becoming consolidated. Eventually the barons could no longer abide the unpredictable ruling style of their kings. Their discontent came to a head during John\u2019s reign.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Magna Carta, Muse and Mentor<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was a lot of defeatism evident in the comments on my recent series of posts,\u00a0Why the West can\u2019t ban Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0How we know Bitcoin is a force for good<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0No-Coiners don\u2019t get that it\u2019s not up to the government.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0The overall timbre being that governments are all-powerful and that they will simply ban or outlaw emergent phenomenon that doesn\u2019t suit their purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

For awhile this was also my concern. When I wrote\u00a0Domestic Terror is a Government Without Constraints<\/a>\u00a0it was motivated from a place of angst and hopelessness. However as we\u2019ve all been watching events unfold, my mindset around this has been shifting. I have been coming across instance after instance of historical accounts on how seemingly unassailable and despotic regimes were swept away in mere moments of time, when it was least expected, when they seemed to be at the height of their power and poised to consolidate it even more.<\/p>\n

It is in these inflection points where nobody is aware of their existence, a grain of sand shifts somewhere and suddenly a geopolitical Minsky Moment ensues. Then it\u2019s all over:<\/p>\n

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We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta, Runnymede UK, 1215AD Could This be a Blow-Off Top for Tyranny? King John\u2019s military failure at the Battle of Bouvines triggered the barons\u2019 revolt, but the roots of their discontent lay much deeper. King John ruled England in […]<\/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":[43,379,23383,3018,31386,1492],"class_list":["post-59857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-government","tag-mark-e-jeftovic","tag-minsky-moment","tag-the-bombthrower","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59857","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=59857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59858,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59857\/revisions\/59858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}