{"id":61234,"date":"2022-01-02T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T13:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61234"},"modified":"2022-01-02T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T13:38:05","slug":"well-either-rise-as-a-collective-or-perish-as-individuals-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61234","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title long unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/well-either-rise-as-a-collective?fbclid=IwAR0wO5ze4zkJH4BfsJ3BUK4E3NC3AAuHAUgxUh9F9_LTvqj5YGUAVciPnG8\">We&#8217;ll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"available-content \">\n<div class=\"body markup\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 image2-576-728\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f938ac5-a515-4aab-9999-117d6ce3a1bf_1024x576.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-default\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f938ac5-a515-4aab-9999-117d6ce3a1bf_1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"576\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1f938ac5-a515-4aab-9999-117d6ce3a1bf_1024x576.jpeg&quot;,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:576,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:74506,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/well-either-rise-as-a-collective-or-perish-as-individuals\" rel=\"\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"soundcloud-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1188691267&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;We'll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;The powerful are able to manipulate humanity collectively to such an extent that our compliance now has us staring down the barrel of extinction on multiple fronts. No individual can stop them. They won't be stopped until the people begin thinking and organizing collectively too.\\n\\nReading by Tim Foley.&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/i1.sndcdn.com\/artworks-nDUDSX9xsAVknewy-Q8w1mQ-t500x500.jpg&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue&quot;,&quot;targetUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/well-either-rise-as-a-collective-or-perish-as-individuals&quot;}\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?auto_play=false&amp;buying=false&amp;liking=false&amp;download=false&amp;sharing=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_playcount=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;hide_related=true&amp;visual=false&amp;start_track=0&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1188691267\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who&#8217;s freaking out about wokeness and identity politics can relax. Liberals are 100 percent certain to get bored with that schtick and forget all about it without having helped a single member of any minority or marginalized group. Ask the immigrants and the kids in cages.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Anyone to the left of Ted Cruz is a communist. Anyone who opposes US imperialism loves and supports the governments it targets. Anyone who defends Palestinians hates Jews. Move the Overton window far enough toward your side of the debate and you can spin even the slightest hint of disagreement with you as dangerous extremism.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>People who spend their time freaking out about communism are hilarious. Even if you believe communism is always necessarily evil, if you live in the western empire you&#8217;re so far from experiencing communism it makes more sense to spend your time fretting about shark attacks or being struck by lightning.\u00a0If you&#8217;re reading this odds are you live in an English-speaking nation. If you live in an English-speaking nation your government is so very, very, very far from espousing communism that it would make more sense for you to spend your time worrying about being eaten by lions.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you believe everything the TV tells you about communism, the simple economic realities of your nation and the mountains of violent force keeping it in place mean that of all the many, many existential threats you can worry about, communism should rank near dead last.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Reverse Batman: A working class ninja spends his nights beating up kleptocratic billionaires whose thievery has created the socioeconomic injustice that&#8217;s destroying his city.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Everyone who&#8217;s freaking out about wokeness and identity politics can relax. Liberals are 100 percent certain to get bored with that schtick and forget all about it without having [&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":[17039,1311,1248,14545,29490,655],"class_list":["post-61234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-collectivism","tag-individualism","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61234","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=61234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61235,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61234\/revisions\/61235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}