{"id":65610,"date":"2023-08-07T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65610"},"modified":"2023-08-07T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:32:56","slug":"normies-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65610","title":{"rendered":"Normies Awake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title-media-block\">\n<div class=\"post-title-wrap\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a title=\"Normies Awake!\" href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/normies-awake\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Normies Awake!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro-paragraph\">\u201cThe West can\u2019t do diplomacy in general, it can\u2019t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a rule, its infrastructure is crumbling, its economies are crumbling, and all public policies seem to have a civilizational suicide as a final goal.\u201d \u2014 Gaius Baltar<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"column column-01\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So-called <em>Normies<\/em>\u00a0might be musing, this month of approved mental languor, whether the mighty efforts to suppress news of all kinds, about everything, have concealed the true tendings of our wayward country \u2014 leading them to wonder whether it is even possible to be a\u00a0<em>Normie<\/em>\u00a0in such an abnormal time and place.<\/p>\n<p>What news is suppressed? That the USA is worse than dead broke. That the people were poisoned, apparently on-purpose. That the spectral \u201cJoe Biden\u201d sold out our country. That the war we started in Ukraine, on purpose, for no good reason, is about to be lost, and with it our standing around world. That there actually is such a criminal organism as the Blob at large in our government, responsible for the astounding abnormality immersing us. But never mind all that\u2026 for now, just go see\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em>. Have a clam roll, a dip in the ocean, another margarita\u2026. September will be here soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the official perversion of money \u2014 especially of borrowing an awesome lot of it with no intention of ever repaying \u2014 leads to the unhappy circumstance of money disappearing until nobody has any money. And by such, the broke-ness of the government transmogrifies to a whole land full of broke people. Many banks go broke as well. Even the high-fliers who hoarded things that purport to represent money go broke. Then, nobody has the means to buy anything. Businesses that can\u2019t sell anything stop being businesses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normies Awake! \u201cThe West can\u2019t do diplomacy in general, it can\u2019t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a rule, its infrastructure is crumbling, its economies are crumbling, and all public policies seem to have a civilizational suicide as a final goal.\u201d \u2014 Gaius Baltar \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So-called [&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":[2,5],"tags":[14964,449,827,834],"class_list":["post-65610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65610","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=65610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65611,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65610\/revisions\/65611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}