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Crashing the Car of Pax Americana
By Ben Hunt
|April 7, 2025
I am desperately opposed to crashing the Pax Americana car, Annie Hall style, because the America First system that this Administration wants as a replacement is not a stable system that is possible as a replacement.

It Was Never Going To Be Me
By Ben Hunt
|February 18, 2025
The Road to Serfdom is not an endless road, but its path and duration, what I call the Great Ravine, is not up to us to choose. While we walk this road the only thing we can save is our souls, and we do it with one simple sentence: It was never going to be me.

This is the Great Ravine
By Ben Hunt
|July 13, 2024
Our mediated cultural transition from sadness to generalized anger to focused anger at specific people and institutions of the Other Party is an entirely intentional effort by Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media.
This is the Great Ravine, and it's all going to get much worse before it gets any better.

Joe Biden and the Common Knowledge Game
By Ben Hunt
|July 1, 2024
Common knowledge is what everyone knows that everyone knows.
Common knowledge is why the 2024 Biden/Harris campaign has collapsed.
All that remains is the cope.

The Intellectual Rot of the Industrially Necessary University
By Ben Hunt
|January 23, 2024
The intellectual rot of the modern University perverts and diminishes the works of its faculty and administrators, no matter how smart they are, no matter how well-intentioned they are. It is a rot that requires plagiarism and promotes antisemitism.
We require a new Reformation, and here are its theses.
Men of God in the City of Man, Part 1: Virus
By Rusty Guinn
|June 30, 2023
This is a story about a virus and the gain-of-function research that produced it.
It's not what you think.

The United States of Bed Bath & Beyond
By Ben Hunt
|May 16, 2023
A grown man made a wager. He lost. He made another wager. He lost again. End of story. - Tony Soprano
This is the story of weak men and rapacious men. This is the story of Bed Bath & Beyond. This is the story of America today.

An AI in the City of God
By Ben Hunt
|April 11, 2023
The City of Man always wins.
The Visigoths always sack Rome. The Vandals always sack Hippo. Augustine always dies in the siege. Bad things always happen to good people ... at scale.
Here's how we use generative AI to flip the script.

Stock Buybacks!™ and the Monetization of Stock-Based Compensation
By Ben Hunt
|November 9, 2022
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 with the other.
Over the past decade, Stock Buybacks!™ have transferred more than a trillion dollars from shareholders to managers. Not founders, not entrepreneurs, not risk-takers ... managers.

Hollow Men, Hollow Markets, Hollow World
By Ben Hunt
|July 9, 2022
Over the past 25 years, our leaders have intentionally constructed an Apocalypse Now world of proclamation and fiat, where our wealth has grown much faster than our economy.
The bill is due for their hubris, and inflation is here to collect it.
