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Noseblind

The half-life of just about every major news story is one week. Barring major new developments, practically nothing captures our attention beyond si…
Rusty Guinn March 1, 2023
23 Comments

Metaphysics, Consciousness, Nature of Reality: a Thread from the ET Forum

The craziest thing happens when there's no audience, when you're talking with other actual human beings for the right reasons ... you not only have ac…
Ben Hunt January 23, 2023
189 Comments

“Yay, College!” Part 1: The Smiley-Face Super-Villainy of American Higher Education

The modern American system of higher education - especially its most prominent public and private universities - is less our Superman than our Homelan…
Ben Hunt January 22, 2023
68 Comments

Epsilon Theory 2022 in Review – Foundation

2022 was our ninth year of publishing Epsilon Theory. It was also our best. We're changing the way the world sees the invisible water in which we swi…
Ben Hunt December 29, 2022
3 Comments

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…
Rusty Guinn December 1, 2022
27 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt November 18, 2022
51 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt November 9, 2022
30 Comments

A Brief History of the Past 10,000 Years of Monetary Policy

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…
Ben Hunt October 5, 2022
56 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt September 19, 2022
34 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt August 17, 2022
16 Comments

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…
Rusty Guinn July 26, 2022
34 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt July 9, 2022
93 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt June 8, 2022
38 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt May 17, 2022
79 Comments

NGMI

The Fed's rate hikes to curb inflation? Not gonna make it.
Ben Hunt April 11, 2022
131 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt March 24, 2022
74 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt February 2, 2022
78 Comments

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…
Ben Hunt January 18, 2022
75 Comments

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…
Rusty Guinn January 3, 2022
72 Comments

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 …
Ben Hunt December 30, 2021
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