Breaking History Ep 57: Will Saner Heads Prevail or will End Times Cultists win the Day?
In this week’s episode of Breaking History, Gordon and I tackle world events with a special focus on the events in the Middle East, updates on Iranian retaliation on Israel, organized crime syndicates from the 19th century to the present and the fight for a new financial system.
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Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of The Canadian Patriot Review, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of the Rising Tide Foundation. He has written the four volume Untold History of Canada series, four volume Clash of the Two Americas series and Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History
On this show, you had said that so much of Geopolitics Podcasting is like Football Commentary.
Oh, man...you hit on something very deep today on Badlands when you said that. This is something I have had on my mind alot over the past few years. It isn't just voyeuristic either. But it goes much deeper.
To say something of my background: for a while (mid 2000's) I was briefly attracted to the Ayn Rand philosophy, particularly attracted to the idea that if you reward innovation and invention, great engineering feats and discoveries would come out of that. That was my mindset ala 2005. Boy was I wrong! It gradually started to dawn on me, in the intervening years, that those who made the most money, the most quickly, were not those who produced real, physical things like inventions, new engines, new ideas...But who made money off of money. In our system which was rigged to benefit the Speculator, it's all about gambling, and betting on debts. How much can I predict that this company's debt will spiral out of control to the point where somebody else has to buy that debt? Who do I think is going to be the one to buy these debts?
Much to my chagrin and disillusionment with Western Capitalism, I had come to realize that what it takes to really make money and be successful is what it takes to be a good better at sports. To nerd out on sports statistics and money is one and the same mindset. Those who were most positioned to make money were the same as those jocks who might have bullied me in high school. That's why you see people toggle from Fox Money news to ESPN and sports channels.
Well Geopolitics is like that, to a lot of people. I have come to realize that many of these people are in this not because they have a genuine interest in what makes Human flourishing most possible, but are in this to bet what will happen to what country and what country will be successful, so that they can know, and tell their listeners, who subscribe to their Patreons and buy their books, where to put their money. You especially see this in Bitcoin circles, how Bitcoin podcasters often talk about geopolitics.
The reason why rattling off Geopolitics news is so similar to rattling off Football scores is because it is literally the same thing: nerding out over money. And there is a LOT of money hinging on this.
Whereas you, Matt, have a genuine philosophical interest and concern about how Humans can develop themselves epistemologically. These people don't. It isn't just voyeuristic; MONEY hinges on it. You notice how half of the time you hear guys in this Truth Movement / Anti-Great Reset MAGA crowd talk about money, and rattle off obscure terminology you'd hear on a Fox channel? Bond yields, Bitcoin reserves, Supply Point Inflation...ya da ya da? It is like sports statistics because how much do you want to bet that a good number of people have spent a good portion of their offtime sitting in Sports bleachers making bets at games? It sure feels like that to me. Geopolitics involves currencies: the Yuan versus the Dollar versus the Ruble versus the Remnimi. The Los Angeles Raiders quarterback versus the New England Patriots defense.
I believe clot heads rule, sadly