The Recipe for Agent Orange – The Projection Racket, Pt. 3
There is a true story of free market capitalism. It is one of humanity's greatest and most important stories.
There is also a myth of free market ca…
Category: Note
The MacGuffin, Part 2: The Story Arc of SBF and FTX
The MacGuffin is the object of desire.
It is the thing around which the plot of the story revolves.
Here is the story arc of SBF and FTX, and the M…
Stock Buybacks!™ and the Monetization of Stock-Based Compensation
I love stock buybacks, but I despise Stock Buybacks!™ - the issuance of new shares to management with one hand and the buying back of those shares w…
A Brief History of the Past 10,000 Years of Monetary Policy and Why Last Week Was a Big Deal
What we saw happen in the UK last week is the first shock, not the last, and all the massive pension funds and asset owners who have turned themselves…
The Widening Gyre
The widening gyre is eating America alive. It is the instrument of the Beast, a three-headed hydra of Big Politics, Big Media and Big Tech.
A third p…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 4 – Carrying the Fire
This is how we resist the Long Now, how we find an alternative world to the endless present where the Party is always right. By connecting the human p…
The Fifteen Faces of Fiat News
We're building a Narrative Early Warning System (NEWS) as our first major research project in a larger effort to inoculate ourselves against the weapo…
Hollow Men, Hollow Markets, Hollow World
Over the past 25 years, our leaders have intentionally constructed an Apocalypse Now world of proclamation and fiat, where our wealth has grown much f…
Being Human in a LARPing World
The cure for the cancer of gun culture and police culture is not to be found in reform laws around guns and police, but in reform ideas around culture…
The MacGuffin, Part 1: The Corrupt Crypto ‘Revolution’
If you don't see that the crypto "industry" has become just as blindingly corrupt, just as oozingly fatuous, just as profoundly captured by the Nudgin…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 3: The Luther Protocol
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." - MLK
Does it? Does it really?
Today we take a stand to defend the arc of the…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 2: Gain of Function
Big Tech, Big Media and Big Politics are engaged in a widespread program of gain-of-function research on the linguistic entities of the metaverse.
It…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 1: The Living Word
The past, present and future of human freedom is not determined in the macroverse but in the metaverse, and it is here where we must make our stand. F…
An Inconvenient Truce
Polarization often isn't an accident. It is the result of intentional narrative construction - constructions designed to make us believe that we are s…
RIP, Expertise
This is an unedited thread from the ET Forum that I've republished in close to its entirety and put outside the paywall. It's just one example of why …
25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life
The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price.
Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us craft a…
The NFL Has a Gambling Problem
The outcomes of NFL games are inordinately influenced by officials relative to other sports. This is not new. The narrative environment faced by the N…
The Green Protocol: A New Vision for Crypto, Pt 2
The Green Protocol is a set of rules for the tokenization of symbolic betting markets in positive social good.
I think this is how crypto saves the w…
How a Narrative Goes Viral
It is a fact that migrants here illegally have spread, are spreading, and will spread Covid-19.
It is also a narrative. A dangerous, seductive, rapi…