Facebook group member Anja Bache-Wiig Solberg asks: What about “fairness”? It’s a great question, and one Harv addresses with keen interest in this week’s episode.
Indeed, with the Jeffrey Epstein suicide (or was he #suicided), the question of “fairness” and “justice” have been on everybody’s mind.
Will this turn of events silence the alternative media, or unite their voices in revolution? It appears to be a dangerous gamble for the powerful.
Let’s discuss…
Episode Links
It’s Cooperation, Stupid: https://www.ippr.org/files/images/media/files/publication/2012/03/cooperation_leadbeater_Mar2012_8769.pdf
The Ultimatum Game Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTg9qyMTIUQ
Monkey Inequality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
Richard Dawkins explains The Selfish Gene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9p2F2oa0_k
Western civilisation exhibits many characteristics of your average, garden variety evil empire.
But how did we get here? And what stories keep us complicit in a system that we would probably find abhorrent if we truly faced its underlying reality? Is it all a big inter-generational conspiracy or something more systemic? Perhaps plain old human nature?
Let’s muddle our way through some unqualified and ill-conceived thoughts on the topic, shall we?
God Bless America – Frank’s Rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJaLrINeZPc
Parallels between Rome and the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvyg679bsg
Russel Brand and Yuval Noah Harari on Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta4U8G03q98
Johan Galtung on the end of the US Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfcoNlhxRow
Richard Wolff on the coming collapse of the US Economic System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60FrsWm9OAc
7 Stages of an Empire in Decline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Gc1bv-Mj4
The only thing worse than having a job is not having one. But what happens when robots and AI take all our jobs? Is there a way to survive in a world without jobs?
This is where the establishment narrative falls apart…
Fight Club Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8RbAGWxqY
Veritasium – Will Robots Take Our Jobs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMEXCsB7L4
Kevin Surace on the next Ranaissance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNF9U_Bvo50
George Carlin Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls8RXqyZDsk
The only thing worse than having a job is not having one. Why does it seem such a rarity that people are employed doing something they enjoy? Why do we feel compelled to work a job at all?
It’s all down to story…
The Office intro clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwpCS5I1aw
The Story of Your Enslavement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A
Joe Rogan on menial jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biBAIg8IdAU&feature=youtu.be&t=863
George Carlin Rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14SllPPLxY
Zeitgeist Addendum – The Federal Reserve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pQNkX8jLM
Corbett Report – A Century of Enslavement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk
The Illuminati, an all powerful, mysterious group of anonymous shadowy figures with designs on full spectrum dominance of the entire planet.
But are they real, or is this just another story told by conspiracy theorists with nothing better to do? Let’s dig in!
There Will Be Blood – The Deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdddIJd3bLc
How to spot a psychopath – Jon Ronson at TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBTbMW3vbc
Stanley Kubrick’s daughter speaks truth (alternative source, original removed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqwo8mJQUQ
Keiser Report – Psychotic people make the best brokers and traders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AulY4CW3Qyk
James Corbett and Dr. Tjeerd Andringa on the Kakistocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbKjbWaLt6I
One in five CEOs are psychopaths: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/psychopaths-ceos-study-statistics-one-in-five-psychopathic-traits-a7251251.html
The disturbing link between Psychopathy and Leadership: https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/#500d21304104
Sometimes we protect our stories against all reason and evidence.
But do we really need the stories that originally inspired positive ideas to be validated? Does having facts debunked make the beliefs that arose from them any less useful?
And what if you can’t let go of a story that’s untrue?
The Book of Life (clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwympi4u64
Emoto Refuted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFDjHZKruPU
Rice Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvShgttIq7I
Rice Experiment Busted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEvfD3O-ack
Cancer Healing in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HecA7XRO7eQ
Killing Cancer with Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKh2XFmsUx4
