{"id":18403,"date":"2021-08-19T05:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18403"},"modified":"2021-08-19T05:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:54:36","slug":"overnight-news-your-life-can-be-better-every-day-but-the-golden-age-you-grew-up-in-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18403\/overnight-news-your-life-can-be-better-every-day-but-the-golden-age-you-grew-up-in-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Your life can be better every day, but the Golden Age you grew up in is\u00a0gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cHome is where the heart is. Food, shelter and heat are nice. Love is\u00a0essential.\u201d<\/p><\/div>If you can read me, chances are you have lived your entire life in a Golden Age you did almost nothing to notice or appreciate. For every day of your life, everything has gotten better, faster, cheaper \u2013 and cooler \u2013 and you lived with a despot&#8217;s expectation that everything would always be that way.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong answer.<\/p>\n<p>We have spent the past 18 months indulging in Normality Bias and the <em>Post Hoc<\/em> Fallacy \u2013 &#8220;When things get back to normal&#8230;&#8221; \u2013 while steadfastly refusing to notice that things are less and less normal every day.<\/p>\n<p>Vide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiasco Joe just licensed Red China&#8217;s wished-for conquest of Taiwan.<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan has F-15s and bombs if not nukes \u2013 and, unlike the U.S., a will to survive.<\/li>\n<li>Red China has military weaknesses of epochal proportions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do the math \u2013 if you dare.<\/p>\n<p>Every day <em>should<\/em> be better than the last \u2013 and that can be true for you, despite everything, if you look out for your own. But it could be a very long time before anything is normal again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redfin.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/housing-market-update-price-drops-pass-5-pct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing Market Update: 5% of Home Sellers Dropped Their Price in Recent Weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNBC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/18\/why-rent-is-about-to-go-up-again.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rent is about to go up again\u2014here\u2019s why.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/raymond-ibrahim\/2021\/08\/17\/the-real-lesson-of-afghanistan-the-journey-of-jihad-marches-on-n1470276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Real Lesson of Afghanistan: The &#8216;Journey of Jihad&#8217; Marches On.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Anton:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/afghanistan-doomed-from-the-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan: Doomed from the Start: Twenty years of ruling class failure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Rufo:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/bank-of-america-racial-reeducation-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank of Amerika: The financial giant teaches that the United States is a system of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and encourages employees to become \u201cwoke at work.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHome is where the heart is. Food, shelter and heat are nice. Love is\u00a0essential.\u201dIf you can read me, chances are you have lived your entire life in a Golden Age you did almost nothing to notice or appreciate. For every day of your life, everything has gotten better, faster, cheaper \u2013 and cooler \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3282,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3282\/casual-friday-caption-this-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":18403,"position":0},"title":"Casual Friday: Caption this photo","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry: \"Because I happen to like Argyle socks, that's why!\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Casual Friday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3822,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3822\/caption-this-photo-president-bush-at-the-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":18403,"position":1},"title":"Caption this photo: President Bush at the Olympics","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry: \"A gentleman always makes eye-contact.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Casual Friday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8385,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8385\/caption-me-this-magnum\/","url_meta":{"origin":18403,"position":2},"title":"Caption Me This Magnum","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My vote?\u00a0 \"Who let Higgins in to your closet, Thomas? \" Sometimes, you just gotta have a sense of humor.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Casual Friday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3289,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3289\/shout-out-a-toast-to-life-abundant-and-caption-this-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":18403,"position":3},"title":"Shout out a toast to life abundant &#8212; and caption this photo","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sez me: \"Bill Gates stole this facial expression from me and I want it back!\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Casual Friday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14685,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14685\/caption-obama-before-his-face-freezes-like-that\/","url_meta":{"origin":18403,"position":4},"title":"Caption Obama &#8212; before his face freezes like that.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My vote: \"I don't get it. This stunt always used to work with my Gammy.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8372,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8372\/caption-this-photo-todd-carpenter-at-the-nar-mid-year-flamboozlepalooza\/","url_meta":{"origin":18403,"position":5},"title":"Caption this: Todd Carpenter at the NAR Mid-Year flamboozlepalooza","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My votes: \"MIBOR? 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