{"id":61389,"date":"2022-01-09T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61389"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:55:44","slug":"2021-year-in-review-crisis-of-authority-and-the-age-of-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61389","title":{"rendered":"2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed \u201cYear in Review\u201d synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year is no exception. Poignant and delightfully acerbic when necessary, considering the troubling times. As with past years, he selected Peak Prosperity as the site where it is published in full. It is longer than our usual posts, but worth the time to read in full.\u00a0This is Part 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave: You do lack self control, but I learned and laughed making my way thru this.<\/p>\n

~ Larry Summers (@LHSummers), former Secretary of the Treasury<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve been trying to reach you about your car\u2019s extended warranty. What began more than a dozen years ago as a synopsis of the year\u2019s events in markets and finance for a few friends morphed beyond my control into a Year in Review (YIR)\u2014an attempt to chronicle human folly and world events for the entire year. It captures key moments before they slip into the brain fog. The process of trying to write a coherent narrative helps me better understand WTF just happened and seminal moments that catch my eye.<\/p>\n

By far my favorite end-of-year recap for the last ten years. Finished it yesterday. Once again David hasn\u2019t disappointed. He\u2019s on my I want to go to dinner with list.<\/p>\n

~ Jim Pallotta (@jimpallotta13), money manager and former owner of Boston Celtics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m game, Jim, even if it\u2019s just a pretzel, nachos, and a brewski. The title, \u201cCrisis of Authority,\u201d is a double entendre. On the one hand, previously trusted authorities that we relied on to better understand the world are long gone. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Tim Russert have been replaced with Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, and Brian Stelter. Oops. Scratch Chris Cuomo..<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed \u201cYear in Review\u201d synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year is no exception. Poignant and delightfully acerbic when necessary, considering the troubling times. As with past years, he selected Peak Prosperity […]<\/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":[21032,2203,9476,32427,17675,11255,5096,374,16888,32428,3284,3733,614,730,4318],"class_list":["post-61389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-21032","tag-blackrock","tag-citadel","tag-dave-chappelle","tag-dave-collum","tag-david-collum","tag-elon-musk","tag-gold","tag-jerome-powell","tag-kyle-rittenhouse","tag-larry-summers","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-paul-krugman","tag-silver","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61389","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=61389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61390,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61389\/revisions\/61390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}