{"id":67303,"date":"2024-04-14T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67303"},"modified":"2024-04-14T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:16:06","slug":"did-lockdowns-set-a-global-revolt-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67303","title":{"rendered":"Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?<\/a><\/h3>\n

“The intellectual parlor game is over. This is a real-life struggle for freedom itself. It\u2019s resist and rebuild or doom.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My first article on the coming backlash \u2013\u00a0admittedly wildly optimistic \u2013\u00a0went to\u00a0print<\/a>\u00a0April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of lockdown, I confidently predicted a political revolt, a movement against masks, a population-wide revulsion against the elites, a demand to reject \u201csocial distancing\u201d and streaming-only life, plus widespread disgust at everything and everyone involved.<\/p>\n

I was off by four years. I wrongly assumed back then that society was still functioning and that our elites would be responsive to the obvious flop of the whole lockdown scheme. I assumed that people were smarter than they proved to be. I also did not anticipate just how devastating the effects of lockdown would be: in terms of learning loss, economic chaos, cultural shock, and the population-wide demoralization and loss of trust.<\/p>\n

The forces that set in motion those grim days were far more deep than I knew at the time. They involved a willing complicity from tech, media, pharma, and the administrative state at all levels of society.<\/p>\n

There is every evidence that it was planned to be exactly what it became; not just a foolish deployment of public health powers but a \u201cgreat reset\u201d of our lives. The newfound powers of the ruling class were not given up so easily, and it took far longer for people to shake off the trauma than I had anticipated.<\/p>\n

Is that backlash finally here? If so, it\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n

New literature is emerging to document it all.<\/p>\n

The new book\u00a0White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy<\/a><\/em> is a viciously partisan, histrionic, and gravely inaccurate account that gets nearly everything wrong but one: vast swaths of the public are fed up, not with democracy but its opposite of ruling class hegemony…<\/p>\n

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Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion? “The intellectual parlor game is over. This is a real-life struggle for freedom itself. It\u2019s resist and rebuild or doom.” My first article on the coming backlash \u2013\u00a0admittedly wildly optimistic \u2013\u00a0went to\u00a0print\u00a0April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of lockdown, I confidently predicted a political revolt, a movement […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[32474,7266,16260,29428,685],"class_list":["post-67303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brownstone-institute","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-jeffrey-a-tucker","tag-lockdowns","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67303","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=67303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67304,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67303\/revisions\/67304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}