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Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog, Of Two Minds, in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of Two Minds has grown to thousands of posts that have logged tens of millions of page views on his site and many others such as Zero Hedge and Peak Prosperity. He is the author of eight novels and fourteen non-fiction books on socio-economic-political dynamics. He lives by Winston Churchill’s dictum that “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
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Charles’s Books:
Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World
Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic
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Excellent discussion. I also accepted DT as a disruptive force, if not within the civil service swamp, bureaucratic leviathan, or MIC, or whatever one wants to call it, within the 2 party gangland of our broken political apparatus.
I also don’t believe Covid is some globalist plot to usher in a new order (can you imagine that fireside chat at Bohemian Grove? “OK, we kick this off in.. let’s see… China!” Wang Jianlin, “Seriously.. here we go! This going to be a very tough sell”)
But I digress
I do believe it is a welcomed opportunity as a scapegoat for a disastrous financial system, a perfectly opportunity to let air out of the bubble, to introduce (more) government intervention into the “free market”. That old cliche about not letting a perfectly good disaster go to waste is making the rounds again and for good reason. Again, it’s always the banality of control rather than some nefarious plot to make people get vaccines or antibody papers or an app that tracks their Covid era interactions. Bill Gates may not be seeking more money, but he may be seeking a return on his enormous investments
“The craving for material goods (power) is not so much due to the direct pleasures of wealth, as none can be seated on more than one chair or eat himself more than sated. Rather, the value of a fortune to life consists in the rich opportunities for anchoring and distraction offered to the owner.”
Honestly speaking, I really enjoyed reading his first blog which is “of two minds” He told incredible features of our mind in that blog which I also write in my essay that I wrote with the help of http://www.essaywriting.net.nz/pay-someone-to-do-my-assignment/ source. I would suggest people to read it and enjoy. It is worth reading it.
Jim you are a good interviewer and that was an interesting discussion. However one point. I don’t think it would be possible to scale back American civilization to levels of 1905, as Mr. Smith suggests (at least on a voluntary basis). Levels of, say, 1960 would be possible tho, IMHO. I was a little kid, but we had it pretty good then, got by with one car (a Ford Falcon) and lived in a 1200 sqft house, one TV etc … IOW we got by on a lot less than people generally do now.
Great podcast with such an accomplished writer! I’ll definitely be checking out his blog. | Chad from https://www.preciouslambsclovis.org/