{"id":61377,"date":"2022-01-09T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61377"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:52:10","slug":"undermining-us-global-hegemony-is-good-actually-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61377","title":{"rendered":"Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/01\/07\/undermining-us-global-hegemony-is-good-actually-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10957\" class=\"post-10957 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-censorship tag-china tag-narrative tag-narrative-matrix tag-russia tag-social-media\">\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\/2022\/01\/medium-2.jpeg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-2.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-2-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-2-768x525.jpeg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" \/><\/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\/undermining-us-global-hegemony-is-good-actually\">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%2F1192082200&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>China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America\u2019s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and still believe the US is a force for peace and justice in this world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The belief that China is trying to become the next unipolar global hegemon is premised on the idea that Beijing has been watching the floundering US empire burn itself out and get crushed under its own weight after just a few decades and thinking \u201cOh that looks awesome! Let\u2019s definitely do that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo no you don\u2019t understand, the US\u00a0<strong><em>needs<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to keep bombing and starving civilians and engaging in nuclear brinkmanship and arming extremist militias and supporting dictators and destroying any nation who disobeys it. Otherwise the world might be taken over by a tyrannical regime!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>You could very easily fill a list with one thousand things Americans should care about more than the one year anniversary of a few wingnuts wandering around the Capitol Building for a bit and then leaving.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Americans have always had a special love for fake fighting. Civil War reenactments. Pro wrestling. Jerry Springer. Democrats vs Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Biden is a better Trump than Trump was; he\u2019s advancing all Trump\u2019s policies more effectively than Trump and actually doing things that Trump only talked about. If Trumpers had any actual ideological consistency instead of vapid partisan hackery they\u2019d all be Biden supporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1478060445445595136&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F01%2F07%2Fundermining-us-global-hegemony-is-good-actually-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=1f55e4812f1ab515c8cf9930188a6c3823fa8bfd&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1478060445445595136\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Please consider the possibility that it\u2019s not a coincidence that Democrats have done literally exactly what those who oppose \u201cvote blue no matter who\u201d said they would do when they took power.<\/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>Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America\u2019s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good. It\u2019s not okay [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,130,694,3142,4348],"class_list":["post-61377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-russia","tag-us-empire","tag-us-hegemony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61377","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=61377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61378,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61377\/revisions\/61378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}