Episode highlights and show notes:
Charles makes one of the greatest stock market calls in recorded history (Deep State to Powell: “Stop Goosing the Stock Market”)
Jelly Donut’s Farewell address.
We made multiple references to my newsletter, Out of The Cave, which is the new name for my old newsletter, the issue in question is here.
Belief in the efficacy of those in power, continues to erode.
The first domino falls? The formation of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone complete with its own war lord to maintain internal order.
The futility of capital markets as being any indicator of reality. When the divide between “the official story” and reality becomes so wide (hypernormalization), credibility is completely lost and then… society cracks up.
Bitcoin remains one of the most viable paths through The Great Opt-Out.
The Global Convergence between Kafka, Orwell, Huxley, and Marx
Max Keiser: Don’t redistribute wealth, redistribute risk.
Books mentioned
- Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
- The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
- Infomocracy by Malka Older
- Everything was Forever Until It Was No More
- Reinventing Collapse & The Five Stages of Collapse by Dmitri Orlov
Episode Transcript: AxisofEasy8_transcript
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One thing Charles hits on, but not in this debate is the role
of “corruption” and those who support it.
This is a global and historical problem.
Re slums and warlords
I am reminded of a story from Bombay 40 years ago, where a local mafia guy helped the slums organize toilets, something the city was unwilling to do.
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