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but then it also kind of makes you think like look there are also like little signs of things kind of like this that we're doing now so hey let's really make sure we don't go down that path because you know even when they were encouraging people during covid remember there were ports where it's like oh there was this this hotlines where you could text and mention if someone was having a gathering or something still government agencies that tweet out if you see something say something they've been doing it for the past 20 years since the G Watch started and it's well it started it after like 9 11. yeah it was like hey if you see a Muslim planting a bomb on a building or something and then it turned into like now three people hanging out yeah right like maybe I I ask people to think of it this way uh you ever see a rabbit you saw in the middle nowhere you imagine why that rabbit must feel right just a tightly wound ball of anxiety scared the entire time and sometimes when they're safe you know they Frolic around they they bounce and they do fun bunny things you see them flop on their side for those that have rabbits but when I go outside I see the bunnies a better example actually is the groundhog outside there's a window right here today when I was recording earlier I got up to close the window and I saw a groundhog and when I closed the window the simple very very quiet noise made the thing spaz out and run in random directions imagine what that thing must be feeling right that's how you will feel if this country goes down that path you'll be sitting in your home stressed out with bags under your eyes rocking back and forth eating a bowl of soup and then you'll hear a knock on the door and then you'll go and you'll answer it and you will pray that it's not the Gestapo the Stasi the police or the the the brown shirts or whoever and then one day it will be and that's it and it just and it doesn't have to be this way you know like that's kind of like my biggest like message that it's like it doesn't have to be this way it didn't have to go this way in the past there's nothing like predestined about that I think this is one of the things that like the neo-reactionary types get completely wrong where they're like oh it was all written in the stars since the enlightenment that this would follow this and this would follow this it's like no that's not true it wasn't written in the stars that the Soviet Union would collapse in 1991 it wasn't written in the stars that like a lot of things that have happened have happened and there we could have look even something as similar as like as simple as like look if George W bush just hadn't won the presidency which was a very very close election there wouldn't have been a war in Iraq now I'm not saying everything would have been better I think Al Gore would not have begun to warn Iraq that was something that that specific group of neoconservatives had a boner for since they wrote it since they wrote it in the project for a New American Century that was not something that like was widely now once it started a lot of them fell in line with that but I'm just saying that like there's no reason why we had to go down this path that we've gone down the last 20 years I'm not saying everything would have been perfect but we could have done things a lot better and we could stop now and make the future much better this country still has an unbelievable opportunity if you just think about the fact that like think about the amount of just knowledge we have how much human capital there is just in our knowledge today what the average say like uh cardiologist knows that a cardiologist didn't know in 1950. now short of a hydrogen bomb going off that knowledge is not going to be is disappeared but our Engineers know the amount of technology that we have we have all of these things where we could actually correct course right now and just live in a more peaceful harmonious world but it's only going to happen if there's like a mass demand for it you know it's crazy just as an aside if you went back in time two thousand years with your general knowledge of things that exist today without knowing how how an h-bomb is menu is made without knowing how to make an electric motor if you simply wrote down these things and said electricity electric motor it would dramatically increase scientific development for those people by hundreds of years just simply knowing a thing exists because one of the challenges is that for all of us in society we are mapping things out and discovering things and then after we discover it we start experimenting with it if we skip the discovery phase and say it exists figure it out people would rapidly just rapidly discover these things if they believed you because if you went back three thousand years ago if they didn't they'd be like it just sounds like magic there's some comedian who talks about like I don't think I could make it he'd be like you know phones you'll be able to carry one around your pocket and they're they're going to ask him like how does that happen I'm pretty sure Nate bargatzi is who you're probably I wish I knew his name it's such a funny an amazing comedian a great person he does this yeah he's got this bit he goes that he couldn't even convince them I think it's got something to do with satellites like I go back in time and do worse because I couldn't it's such a fun it's such a funny bit like he'd have like no follow-up you go like I think it's satellites and they're like what's a satellite he's like I shouldn't have even brought it up that's such a great bit hilarious comedian neighbors but think about think about that because I've talked about it too uh in terms of if we do face a a serious collapse what is more worrying to me than a nuclear bomb going off an EMP drone weapon or even the sun bursting and weapon Electronics is economic crisis yes I agree with you if if the economy stops then you're not going to have computers you're not going to have cars you're not going to have electronics and it's not because a magical explosion from the Sun wiped it out it's going to be because people aren't working together because the economic machine itself is a powerful system that if you break one peg and it can collapse yeah and and this is when really bad things happen when there's a really bad economy right like oh if you want if you look back at any like horrible totalitarian movement it almost always started with like there was a real economic crash issue going on in the U.S and we are in a proxy war with the country that has the most nuclear weapons on the planet and people just go to go about their normal days like that is just the way things are or that it's okay look there should be the it should be the most important thing is is just stopping well you don't want to have it's like a slow boil right like people got eased into the economic turmoil and then they got used to it and then they got used to everyone talking about Ukraine we had the moment wherever and put up their flags and then it sort of it's been happening in the background for like a year how we got here is yeah I get it you're maybe right how we got here is not important just because of the ramifications of something going wrong well the thing is that is this right and when you talk about like kind of like the economic uh the the the prospects of a really terrible economic situation there's this uh by the way the great book if anyone wants to read it called uh the Forgotten crash of 1921 by James Grant really excellent book so in 1921 a lot of people don't know this there was a crash that was worse than the stock market crash of 1929 which led to the Great Depression

The speaker mentions Michael Malice's last book, 'The White Pill', and discusses its message about how bad things can get.

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