{"id":60047,"date":"2021-10-23T07:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60047"},"modified":"2021-10-23T07:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:58:32","slug":"we-are-ruled-by-apes-with-pr-firms-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60047","title":{"rendered":"We Are Ruled By Apes With PR Firms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/10\/23\/we-are-ruled-by-apes-with-pr-firms-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">We Are Ruled By Apes With PR Firms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10666\" class=\"post-10666 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-consciousness tag-conspiracy tag-narrative-matrix tag-oligarchs tag-power\">\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\/10\/medium-8.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-8.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-8-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-8-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-8-128x86.jpeg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" \/><\/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\/we-are-ruled-by-apes-with-pr-firms\">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%2F1146424042&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>So yeah basically we\u2019re watching sociopathic oligarchs shore up more and more control over the global population and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it and our information systems are stacked to prevent mass-scale direct action against it.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t vote your way out of a problem you never voted your way into in the first place. You can\u2019t have a revolution while everyone is being successfully propagandized into accepting things as they are. Any solution is therefore going to have to come from somewhere they haven\u2019t secured.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re all just kind of watching this happen and hoping for what amounts to a miracle, or really a stack of miracles. What gives me hope is that I know humans have a lot of surprises within themselves that they haven\u2019t even begun to explore yet. We might just get some miracles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The behavior of global oligarchic power structures makes a lot more sense when you see that it\u2019s not as much a lucid elite conspiracy as it is a few barely-conscious humans compulsively acting out psychological dynamics within themselves that they don\u2019t really understand. Elite conspiracies happen to be sure, but what\u2019s ultimately driving them is not a complete and coherent vision for the future which takes all things into account but rather\u00a0the simple egoic impulses of barely-evolved primates blindly trying to shore up control like chimps asserting dominance.<\/p>\n<p>The sociopaths who rule our world are no more conscious of their own inner processes than your average serial killer&#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>We Are Ruled By Apes With PR Firms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 So yeah basically we\u2019re watching sociopathic oligarchs shore up more and more control over the global population and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it [&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":[17039,3800,2299,14545,599,643,1161,14133,3899],"class_list":["post-60047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-conspiracies","tag-control","tag-narrative-control","tag-oligarchs","tag-power","tag-public-relations","tag-rule","tag-ruling-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047","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=60047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60048,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047\/revisions\/60048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}