{"id":66958,"date":"2024-03-11T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66958"},"modified":"2024-03-11T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:58:54","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-lxxiv-our-ruling-class-always-pushing-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66958","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh\u00a0LXXIV–Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh\u00a0LXXIV<\/h3>\n

November 7, 2022 (original posting date)<\/p>\n

Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by\u00a0author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction<\/strong><\/p>\n

A very brief contemplation that is a comment I posted on the Honest Sorcerer\u2019s latest piece of writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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It\u2019s pretty self-evident (at least to everyone outside of the hypnotic manipulation of US propaganda) that the American ruling caste cares little (if at all) for any other group of people or nation\u200a\u2014\u200anot even their own domestic population (or some in their own ranks). Of course, it\u2019s also not hard to argue that this is true of any society\u2019s ruling caste. Their primary motivation is the control\/expansion of the wealth-generation\/-extraction systems that provide their revenue streams and thus positions of power and prestige. Everything else is secondary\/tertiary and even these are leveraged to help the primary goal.<\/p>\n

While the endgame of all the machinations of our elite seems fairly obvious (complete and devastating global collapse of industrial civilisation\u200a\u2014\u200aperhaps even worse\u200a\u2014\u200agiven how deeply into ecological overshoot our species is), it\u2019s frustrating (to say the least) for those of us who view the world through the complexities that go beyond geo\/politics and economics (i.e., include ecology, biology, physics, psychology, etc.) and understand the need for global leadership that differs significantly from that being shown by the sociopaths that do wield \u2018power\u2019 in our world.<\/p>\n

Throw in the divisions that even exist within those circles that understand our overshoot predicament and how best to address this (I think of those who beat the drum about sustaining our complexities via some magical \u2018clean\u2019 energy transition\u200a\u2014\u200awhich is being leveraged by the elite to pillage national treasuries and peoples even further), and that endgame I mention above seems baked in at this juncture.<\/p>\n

Attempting to make one\u2019s local community as self-sufficient as possible in these crazy times seems the only sane course of action. Getting people on board with such a pursuit when society\u2019s \u2018leaders\u2019 are pushing with all their might in the exact opposite direction[1]<\/a> is, however, a task in and of itself\u200a\u2014\u200aparticularly when those who question mainstream narratives are increasingly being censored, vilified, deplatformed, ostracised, and even criminalised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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[1]<\/a> Example of this insanity by my province\u2019s government here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh\u00a0LXXIV November 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by\u00a0author. Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction A very brief contemplation that is a comment I posted on the Honest Sorcerer\u2019s latest piece of writing. It\u2019s pretty self-evident (at least to everyone outside of the hypnotic manipulation […]<\/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":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[655,33394,3899,6979,5833,30370,33947,11923,34013],"class_list":["post-66958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-propaganda","tag-ruling-caste","tag-ruling-class","tag-ruling-elite","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation","tag-todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh","tag-wealth-extraction","tag-wealth-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66958","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=66958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66958\/revisions\/66959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}