{"id":10418,"date":"2026-07-07T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:27:40","slug":"3-faces-of-the-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/07\/07\/3-faces-of-the-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Faces of the Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IwfHPTVyrkw&#038;t=464s\">Teachers Are DONE &#038; Speak Out&#8211;Something Is Very Wrong With America<\/a><del datetime=\"2026-07-06T07:29:13+00:00\">\u2019s Youth <\/del> (link goes to a point about 8 minutes in; despairing teachers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wa7jOqENzSs\">an entire genre in the video spaces<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TIe3ovHjZ8k\">She Has an AI Boyfriend. Her Son Has Questions. | NYT Opinion <\/a> (a relationship that depends on paying for a subscription to it is not a relationship worth having) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0pcDKYLIHXY\">The New Face of America: Inside the Second Great Depression<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>With 43 million people living below the poverty line &#8211; double the rate of fifty years ago &#8211; the U.S. faces a socioeconomic tipping point. From the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles to the systemic food insecurity of the Appalachian mining regions, we uncover the lives of 1.5 million homeless children, a figure now triple that of the Great Depression. Witness the stories of displaced families surviving on unstable gig work and the community-led efforts, like tiny house villages, providing a last line of defense against the streets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Failing to witness is of course also an option.<\/p>\n<p>Declining to quit your job and build shacks like Punk Elvis does; that too. <\/p>\n<p>Or you could share funny memes about the lie that all these things are all Trump&#8217;s fault, and declare all the homeless to be lazy addicts or head cases or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Including those incidental million and a half children.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>What am I gonna do?<\/p>\n<p>All stories of the narrative self.<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers Are DONE &#038; Speak Out&#8211;Something Is Very Wrong With America\u2019s Youth (link goes to a point about 8 minutes in; despairing teachers are an entire genre in the video spaces) She Has an AI Boyfriend. Her Son Has Questions. | NYT Opinion (a relationship that depends on paying for a subscription to it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}