{"id":9110,"date":"2015-06-15T05:48:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T10:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9110"},"modified":"2015-06-15T05:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T10:48:29","slug":"snowden-putin-greece-its-all-the-same-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9110","title":{"rendered":"Snowden, Putin, Greece: It\u2019s All The Same Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snowden, Putin, Greece: It\u2019s All The Same Story<\/a><\/h3>\n

Through the last decades, as we have been getting ever more occupied trying to be what society tells us is defined as successful, we all missed out on a lot of changes in our world. Or perhaps we should be gentle to ourselves and say we\u2019re simply slow to catch up.<\/p>\n

Which is somewhat curious since we\u2019ve also been getting bombarded with fast increasing amounts of what we\u2019re told is information, so you\u2019d think it might have become easier to keep up. It was not.<\/p>\n

While we were busy being busy we for instance were largely oblivious to the fact the US is no longer a beneficial force in the world, and that it doesn\u2019t spread democracy or freedom. Now you may argue to what extent that has ever been true, and you should, but the perception was arguably much closer to the truth 70 years ago, at the end of WWII, then it is today.<\/p>\n

Another change we really can\u2019t get our heads around is how the media have turned from a source of information to a source of \u2013 pre-fabricated \u2013 narratives. We\u2019ll all say to some extent or another that we know our press feeds us propaganda, but, again arguably, few of us are capable of pinpointing to what extent that is true. Perhaps no big surprise given the overdose of what passes for information, but duly noted.<\/p>\n

So far so good, you\u2019re not as smart as you think. Bummer. But still an easy one to deny in the private space of your own head. If you get undressed and stand in front of the mirror, though, maybe not as easy.<\/p>\n

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Snowden, Putin, Greece: It\u2019s All The Same Story Through the last decades, as we have been getting ever more occupied trying to be what society tells us is defined as successful, we all missed out on a lot of changes in our world. Or perhaps we should be gentle to ourselves and say we\u2019re simply […]<\/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":[2,5,6],"tags":[2674,279,1167,6375,418,3180,553,655,660,3007,6376,834],"class_list":["post-9110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-automatic-earth","tag-eu","tag-greece","tag-greenwald","tag-imf","tag-narrative","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-putin","tag-snowden","tag-spin","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110","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=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}