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 younger we are, the more the stories we are told affect us. So the stories we are told as children are the ones we’ll repeat and propagate in later life.
It seems like these inter-generational cycles of violence and abuse are everywhere, but what of the more subtle traumas we’re subjected to in childhood?
In this episode, let’s discuss the various ways families inevitably fuck each other up!
Good Will Hunting clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQht2yOX9Js
Nadine Burke Harris TED Talk on the far-reaching effects of trauma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk
Why you can’t remember childhood trauma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFqj-2HjUDI
The Mind of Jake Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bpkr91p2xY&list=PLDs0tNoNYTz1P3dO8m5Wdv0WE2lPTQSJm
Self Esteem in Children: https://raisingchildren.net.au/toddlers/behaviour/understanding-behaviour/about-self-esteem
Diet and nutrition are important to everybody, but when you make an earnest attempt to improve your knowledge in this area, it’s often confusing, contradictory and ultimately discouraging. There seem to be so many contradictory studies and points of view that it’s impossible to determine what diet is truly healthy for a human.
Is there an agenda at play? And how do we find a story that makes sense of it all?
In this episode of Narratively Speaking, Harv shares his own battles and tries to sort out the truth from the nonsense.
Mikhaila Peterson with Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fncJdVjy5U
What I’ve Learned: why the Carnivore Diet works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isIw2AN_-XU
Footsoldier on the Carnivore diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHtf_oK75bg
Gojiman on the Carnivore diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVD7NBrkLg
Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck on water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzaV8tg6hno
Elon Musk looks like he’s never toked on a doobie before, and yet he’s telling us, completely sober, that we’re probably living within multiple nested computer simulations, like Russian nesting dolls.
What is he banging on about? Is there any evidence for this? And why does this idea keep surfacing in popular media?
Let’s see if we can sort it out…
Popcorn Lobotomy Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHQBomyVGo
JP / Wandering Soul Records: https://wanderingsoulmusic.bandcamp.com
JP’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joel.pearse
Riddle / Simulation theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CyN8rYdX6g
Another explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmZ_sNf2mE
Elon Musk with Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cM690CKArQ
Russel Brand considers Simulation Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkYsMinnh5s
Dr Sylvester James finds computer code in reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4GOkHfxBY
Oooh, Mind Control! It’s one of those stories that is pretty hard to believe, so much so that most don’t give it much consideration.
But is there any truth behind the myth? Let’s look at it more closely…
The Manchurian Candidate clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoPkeKquN4
Today Show Anchors Hypnotised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njE-YvyET2I
Is Hypnosis Fake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RA2Zy_IZfQ
Tom Silver on Brainwashing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMDnMjiLIMg
Discovery – Brainwashed to Kill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gO72dK4HjA
Sirhan Sirhan on the Kennedy Assassination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjFpVhiZy_I
Fritz Springmeier on the Alex Jones Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feTLK6_EMqQ
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
Fame seems to be an almost irresistible attraction for many people. But why do we place value on the attention and adoration of large numbers of people, when almost every story we’re ever told about fame is a negative one?
Let’s examine some of the stories we tell about fame…
Celebs speak on Fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYDKCx4hSQQ
Vrillex on Beyonce and her clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pCXEhkVcGg
Requiem for a Dream – The Red Dress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcKftzUS_Y
Jay Dyer – 6 Signs of MK Ultra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3C22r6B6uo
Roseanne on Breaking The Set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLTsdC0lasc
Michael Jackson speaks about Sony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6zVypo72E
MK Ultra documents: http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/#
CIA Article on MK Ultra: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100150073-8.pdf
Death is one of the fundamental things any self-aware sentient human has to come to grips with. But how do we do that, when all evidence seems to indicate that death is final, and there is nothing beyond?
Of course, that’s where story comes in…
Bill Nye on the Afterlife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwDvejyrA0
Today Show on Science and the Afterlife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM073TBPLmk
Sam Parnia on NDEs and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KaPGnRJZfg
AWARE study results: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/aware-results-finally-published-no-evidence-of-nde/
Skeptico interviews Sam Parnia: https://skeptiko.com/sam-parnia-claims-near-death-experience-probably-an-illusion/
BBC om Transhumanism – Could we live forever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsTUEOqP-g
