{"id":8478,"date":"2015-05-26T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2015-05-26T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:16:09","slug":"surplus-repression-and-the-self-defeating-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8478","title":{"rendered":"Surplus Repression and the Self-Defeating Deep State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blogmay15\/surplus-repression5-15.html\" target=\"_blank\">Surplus Repression and the Self-Defeating Deep State<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>The nation is wallowing self-piteously in a fetid trough of denial and adolescent rage\/magical thinking now that the nation&#8217;s bogus, debt-based &#8220;prosperity&#8221; has crashed and cannot be restored.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>If you type\u00a0<i>Deep State<\/i>\u00a0into the custom search window in the right sidebar, the search results fill 10 pages.<\/b>\u00a0I think it is fair to say I have long had a deep interest in the Deep State.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Deep State is generally assumed to be monolithic:<\/b>\u00a0of one mind, so to speak, unified in worldview, strategy and goals.<\/p>\n<p>History suggests that this low-intensity conflict within the ruling Elite is generally a healthy characteristic of leadership in good times. As times grow more troubled, however,\u00a0<b>the unity of the ruling Elite fractures into irreconcilable political disunity, which becomes a proximate cause of the dissolution of the Empire if it continues.<\/b><b>In my view, this is an over-simplification of a constantly shifting battleground of paradigms and power between a number of factions and alliances within the Deep State.<\/b>Disagreements are not publicized, of course, but they become apparent years or decades after the conflict was resolved, usually by one faction consolidating the Deep State&#8217;s group-think around their worldview and strategy.<\/p>\n<p><b>I recently proposed the idea that Wall Street now poses a strategic threat to national security and thus to the Deep State itself:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blogmar14\/throw-under-bus3-14.html\" target=\"resource\">Who Gets Thrown Under the Bus in the Next Financial Crisis?<\/a>\u00a0(March 3, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surplus Repression and the Self-Defeating Deep State The nation is wallowing self-piteously in a fetid trough of denial and adolescent rage\/magical thinking now that the nation&#8217;s bogus, debt-based &#8220;prosperity&#8221; has crashed and cannot be restored. If you type\u00a0Deep State\u00a0into the custom search window in the right sidebar, the search results fill 10 pages.\u00a0I think it [&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":[6],"tags":[127,199,2384,259,4924,1302,860],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-deep-state","tag-elite","tag-empire","tag-oftwominds","tag-status-quo","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","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=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}