{"id":31464,"date":"2023-10-03T07:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31464"},"modified":"2023-10-03T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:16:00","slug":"brian-j-messes-with-the-zeihan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/brian-j-messes-with-the-zeihan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J. Messes With The Zeihan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube suggested a Peter Zeihan video (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mqA5NODRnQI\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Don&#8217;t Be Surprised by China&#8217;s Collapse<\/a>) when I was just looking for a Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Walker song (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3sYUthjyTb8\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Ain&#8217;t That A Bitch<\/a>&#8220;) because I haven&#8217;t cleared my cookies often enough in my main browser.<\/p>\n<p>And I look at his backdrop:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/zeihan.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And my conspiracy lobe started throbbing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Given that the continents of &#8220;Earth&#8221; are all in a semi-circle on this map, what, exactly, is on the southern hemisphere of this planet?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Understand, gentle reader, that the conspiracy lobe of my brain is equal parts my creativity for fiction, the things that gave me the willies when I was younger, and my rational concerns based on lived experience (well, with projection from some individuals to the behavior of groups).<\/p>\n<p><em>Or is it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube suggested a Peter Zeihan video (Don&#8217;t Be Surprised by China&#8217;s Collapse) when I was just looking for a Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Walker song (&#8220;Ain&#8217;t That A Bitch&#8220;) because I haven&#8217;t cleared my cookies often enough in my main browser. And I look at his backdrop: And my conspiracy lobe started throbbing. Given that the continents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31467,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464\/revisions\/31467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}