{"id":61319,"date":"2022-01-05T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61319"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:39:33","slug":"tomorrowland-has-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61319","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrowland Has Fallen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosophia.net\/tomorrowland-has-fallen\/?fbclid=IwAR3umfnOyTf0sA2v8SFL_G8Bv7KJEiDJdUAQMfbRjcLkXKg7juBqYpLDZpQ\">Tomorrowland Has Fallen!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Has anyone else noticed just how odd it is that so many people on the progressive end of our cultural landscape are frantically trying to convince everyone that the Omicron variant, the latest mutation of the Covid-19 cold virus, really is the end of the world? I freely grant that a lot of people are ill just now\u2014that\u2019s what usually happens in the temperate zone\u2019s winter, you know, when the latest respiratory viruses make their rounds.\u00a0 I grant just as freely that hospitals are scrambling to keep up\u2014many of them have laid off up to half their staff as a result of vaccine mandates, after all, and they\u2019re being besieged by mobs of people who have been convinced by the media that ordinary cold symptoms mean they\u2019re about to die.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a collective frenzy being eagerly fed by a great many people. Of course it\u2019s not surprising that the corporate media would push scare stories at full volume. Whoring out the news to sell advertising space is their stock in trade, and \u201cif it bleeds, it leads\u201d has taken precedence over responsible journalism since before there\u00a0<em>was\u00a0<\/em>responsible journalism.\u00a0 Still, this isn\u2019t limited to the media.\u00a0 A great many people seem remarkably eager to insist that the pandemic can\u2019t be winding down. In that eagerness I sense the approach of convulsive change.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, a case can be made that there are practical if unmentionable reasons for this habit of sedulously cultivated panic. To begin with, as Freddie deBoer has pointed out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/covid-panic-is-a-site-of-inter-elite\">in a trenchant post<\/a>, being terrified of the Covid virus has become a venue for status competition among members of the privileged classes.\u00a0 It\u2019s an old story, at least as old as that fine fairy tale \u201cThe Princess and the Pea.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrowland Has Fallen! Has anyone else noticed just how odd it is that so many people on the progressive end of our cultural landscape are frantically trying to convince everyone that the Omicron variant, the latest mutation of the Covid-19 cold virus, really is the end of the world? I freely grant that a lot [&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":[2,6],"tags":[15417,302,1758,462,496,607],"class_list":["post-61319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-ecosophia","tag-fear","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-journalism","tag-mainstream-media","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61319","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=61319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61320,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61319\/revisions\/61320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}