Yes..words serve the purpose of communicating your intent and of course they matter, but the real story is always in the unsaid and the subtle. You the human will always have one particular edge over machine analysis. It may not always lead to the correct conclusion, but it will often provide “data” not available to surveillance tech. It is your ability to feel aka what we’ve been discussing a lot, human intuition. You can feel when an influencer is motivated by superficial desires. You can feel when an account is only interested in clicks. You can feel someone’s disposition in the way they write or respond. You can feel the specific aspects of someone’s anxiety from the way they post in a way that a machine cannot. You can feel when someone is strictly interested in just seeking attention or validation. You can sometimes even tell the difference between people reacting negatively to the same tragedy. One is driven by scoring online points vs. another who may be genuinely concerned. This is the only real advantage you possess in the coming world so it’s best to cultivate this and develop a strong intuitive sense of the digital landscape. Your analysis will only go so far.

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There are genuinely smart guys who have difficulty accepting that one way or another, a fiat monetary crisis is inevitable in the near future, and that its implications could be catastrophic, especially as it interacts with today's technological realities. I suppose they fall into three camps: 1. “It’s decades away, nothing we can guarantee or do anything about.” 2. “Its effects will be negligible enough, made up by supply chains and industrialization.” 3. “There will always be fiat; these are all fantasies of Bitcoiners and fans of Austrian economics.” All three are wrong and arrogant in their own way, because they intentionally bury their heads in the sand, perhaps for convenience or just out of cowardice of facing the truth. They ignore the plethora of sirens alarmed by respected thinkers with diverse perspectives and persuasions, including mainstream names like Rey Dalio, who has been writing about the end of the debt cycle for at least 6-7 years from what I recall. People like Lyn Alden and Saifedean Ammous, Edward Dowd, Max Kaiser who have also eloquently and rigorously described the events leading to the end of fiat. This doesn’t even include names like Davidson and Mogg who predicted today’s events in their magnum opus. If after this they say, “ok I accept a crisis is likely, and perhaps even that we will move to a BTC standard, then what does that mean for the world? It’ll just be a recession for a few years? What possible implications would such an event have?” In order to accurately answer this question, we would have to consider the interaction of many different parts and variables. There are many different scenarios at play, but unless there are political actions taken, we may end up with ones with quite severe consequences for the people of the world.

LOL, it'll be so funny when the corporate interests shoving buckets of money into the AI pit finally realize that it doesn't like to lie and censor. There will be no way around this problem because the most successful iterations will naturally be the least tamed for various reasons. So then we should probably expect the nature of power in this era to change drastically. In the 20th century's networks of gatekeepers and centralized information controls, covert and implicit power games led to success—from the geopolitical arena to the boardroom. Whoever controlled information controlled power. Fast forward to today: information is cheap and easily accessible. The cost of hiding truth is high: a less reliable AI in a world moving into an arms race for intelligence. Yes, I understand there may be a temporary bottleneck probably causing a short-lived winter, but efficiency gains will likely put the race back on track after a brief reprieve. So then what happens to power? So if the cost of “hiding truth” or censorship is high, it will undoubtedly fragment power worldwide, as it becomes easier to uncover the inner workings of corrupt centralized governments (already happening to a lesser degree hence unrest). This will force governments to become lean and operate like efficient, transparent organizations or face backlash—throw in a financial crisis and you can forget about it! This would practically mean that there would be revolutions, civil wars, declarations of sovereignty, leasing of sovereignty to wealthy interests, or even explicit authoritarianism until we reach some temporary equilibrium. The end result would be sovereignty once again becoming less centralized and even personal for some of the wealthy. That may seem like good news on the surface to some, but there’s a darker much more sinister side to this, and it involves the current power players. They already see where this leads and recognize that with the right mix of surveillance, crises, and capability to conduct robotic violence, an explicit slave state could emerge before fragmentation occurs. The alternative to this is for current nation states to opt-in, recognize and embrace the inevitable transition. Grant true sovereignty to the people by changing centralized bureaucracies into transparent lean governance networks. Decentralize power willingly into your local regions. Let the main historic nation state serve as a unifying entity for protection of life and property. This is the current scenario, and the choices look bleak unless we quickly address the vulnerable power structures being used to bootstrap sovereignty for a select few or chosen people 👀. The alternative described above is really the only answer given the interactions of all the megapolitical variables in the mix. It’ll become very clear as the situation becomes more dire and odds of success shrink drastically.

People find it difficult to fathom sovereignty beyond their current idea of centralized nation states because they ignore underlying incentives and assume structures last forever. The modern nation-state emerged just over 100 years ago, best possible structure for the industrial era, yet prior to that sovereignty and the role of government into the daily lives of citizens was very different, and it will yet again be different as we go deeper into the “information age”. This book 👇, written in 1996, is shockingly accurate about trends and technologies that came about in the last couple of decades. It doesn't get everything right, but enough to make you scratch your head in disbelief. This is less about what's good or bad for retaining and maintaining sovereignty, but rather what is likely based on the coming era's mega-political conditions. Sovereignty fragmentation is guaranteed for many reasons, but more interesting questions are how best to fragment in each given region and what will create lasting powerful sovereignties? Technocrats believe it will be many smaller private kingdoms run by different oligarchs binding them by some arbitrary group identity like “bitcoiner” or “secular tech bro”. If everyone in the world is using bitcoin, then what is really holding together a Bitcoin sovereign society? I disagree and reject their worldview. If humanity as we conceive it is to survive, we must embrace what makes us human, creating societies based on unifying characteristics like ethnicity, religion, tradition, and history. What works for one region may not for another, but one thing is certain: the centralized federal government's role and structure is going change forever in the near future.

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When Muslims try to tell people “Islam is universal,” seculars (even “Muslim” seculars) say, “Well, Islam allowed slavery and multiple wives for men. If it was truly universal, why would it permit such horrendous evil?” These stupid folks (primarily Islamoleftists) have no clue what being universal means. It means Islam can work with the values of any culture, individual intelligence level, or time period. When slavery was widespread, Islam accepted that reality but encouraged freeing slaves. In today’s cultural realities—i.e., multiple wives being looked down upon—it still fits. There’s no compulsion to own slaves or marry multiple women. Instead of focusing on what Islam allows, note what it prohibits. Nothing that’s prohibited in Islam is a net good at an individual or societal level, without exception. This makes it universal. When BAP and co. try to convince you Islam is a desert religion, they are lying just based on literal reality. It can smoothly fit any culture, as long as there’s appetite for spiritual awakening. The older Japanese population and their culture of discipline, tradition, and harmony fit like a glove with Islamic principles, hence why we see this success.

If the Greater Israel™️ plan is real (it is) then you must ask yourself the following: “Why would a tiny nation of perverts in the Middle East think they could explicitly conquer their neighbors, especially given the immense public outcry recently?” You could say, “They own the US, so they can just do whatever they want.” That is a simpleton’s response to that question. Obviously we know the US is occupied, but there are other sovereign nations in the world as well. There is also intense domestic pressure within the US to the point that members of Congress are getting booed by Boomers at their public events. So given all of these variables, you would think they would be satisfied taking Gaza and maybe waiting a few years before they make their move— yet they continue unencumbered. So think this through for me please. Why would they do this unless they were quite certain of success? Perhaps they recognize something you the reader doesn’t? As I have been stating for a long time now, they recognize that the current monetary system is on the verge of collapse, whether it’s been done deliberately or not is almost irrelevant at this point. Once you see this reality, all of their moves make perfect sense. Their friend in this situation is chaos and uncertainty, and they will push them to the maximum.

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