Historian and geopolitical commentator Matt Ehret joins me for a wide-ranging discussion on the current state of of world politics and what it means in a philosophical and metaphoric sense.
Ultimately, the theme of the day is how do we as idea men lead people out of the wilderness to see the false reality that’s been constructed for us.
Show Notes
Matt Ehret:
At Strategic Culture Foundation
At Rising Tide Foundation
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Podcast Episode #103 — Alex Krainer and the Fracturing Collateral of Empires
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Podcast Episode #101 — Joaquin Flores and Whose State System Reigns Supreme?
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Great point about the Wizard of Oz revealed, and that’s certainly been true in the past.
My concern is that today, such a high percentage of the population are incapable of deduction that even once we draw the curtain back and reveal the drooling imbecile, they fail to react.
Or as Frank Zappa might have said, the brick wall at the back of the theatre has been clearly visible for some time now, and yet half the population are still cheering.
Indeed a big chunk of them are angry at us for having interrupted the show.
P.S – Frank was a smart guy. People only agree with you if they already agree with you.
“Indeed a big chunk of them are angry at us for having interrupted the show.”
Plato’s Cave. Nothing ever changes does it? Have you ever read Albert Jay Nock’s essay — “Isaiah’s Job”? Nock was clearly an elitist, but then so was Mencken…meaning they both saw the world as it was and had disgust for the average person. Just look at the world as it is and has always been. How could any thinking person not have this disgust? A thinking person with empathy just wants to be left alone, but psychopaths want to rule over the masses for whatever reason. Hence the world we have.
Many thanks – found a copy at mises.org.
I think the modern term “NPC” was very resonant, and the progressive mafia feared it so much they tried to draw its fangs with the film “Free Guy”
I spent some time trying to craft a plain text emoticon for NPC Wojak – the closest I came was this………
: 7 |
That’s colon-space-seven-space-pipe.
was F Zappa part of the Deep State?
No
I hadn’t thought about “Breaker Morant” in awhile. Great, great movie.
Tom, your observations about WB and where they are taking the DC movie world is interesting. But DC Comics is destroying itself with its “bisexual” Superman. My husband was a comic book fan as a teenager (especially “Iron Man”) but he’s still unaware of what’s really happening in the world. Maybe that kind of nonsense will help to wake him up.
Mimi,
The comics industry is unsalvagable at this point. But I’ve been watching the goings on at WB for a couple of years now and all the right people are getting fired in the merger with Discovery. These people screwed the pooch big time and I think David Zaslav, the new head, realizes what’s been done and where they are going to go to build on what works (Snyder) and what doesn’t (Hamada, Geof Johns, etc.).
Breaker Morant: I have always had bad luck recommending that film to others, it seems like only about 1 out of 10 people really get it.
Rule 303
Matthew 10
——
“We would cross the sparkling river
on the brown horse and the bay
“Watch the willows sway and shiver
and the trembling shadows play
“‘Tis a memory to be hoarded
“Of a foolish tale and fond
“Till another stream be forded
“And we reach the great beyond”
—–
Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!
—–
The other film I would really recommend, similar to Breaker Morant, Platoon & Schindler’s List, that is about characters discovering the true nature of the machine they are serving and changing is:
William F. Buckley Jr. on “The Lives of Others”
Two hours and twenty minutes later we came away. The house was still empty. I turned to my companion and said, “I think that is the best movie I ever saw.” He is only 23 years old, but he nodded his agreement.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838229/posts
Well Peter, this is what comes of empire building
Your trial is coming up soon, isn’t it?
They don’t want me.
Intelligence service, Kitchener’s staff, and all that.
No, it wouldn’t go down very well.
But a wild, simple fellow like Handcock,
and a black sheep.
-We won’t be missed.
-That’s right.
I can have a horse standing by for you.
Some of the guards are sympathetic.
And where would I go?
Lorenzo Marques. Portuguese territory.
Take a boat and see the world.
I’ve seen it.
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Forget it, Major. It’s a sideshow of the war.
I have some good news.
There’s hope of a peace conference
in a couple of months.
If you run into the right person, you could almost do a Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment with Breaker Morant.
Enough said, you either get it or you don’t. I remember being shattered by that film as a kid, only to be disillusioned decades later, about how the world really worked: there isn’t a “divine being dispensing justice to mankind”. It’s a real exception if it happens.
A few years after Schindler’s List came out, I ended up at the Yad Vashem, in Israel, on the Avenue of the Righteous, where Oskar Schindler was invited to plant a tree. And the most chilling realization that I came away with was how few trees there were planted there.
Yeah, that movie is nothing but immense quotes and beautiful performances.
Every time I think of this movie all I can think of is my father, who I watched this with a few times.
Like you, this movie destroyed me as a teenager. I was maybe 12-13 when I saw it.
We had a copy on video tape. It was a staple.
‘They say a slice off a cut loaf’s never missed?”
“We shot them under Rule 303!”
You two should start your own Siskel and Ebert movie review podcast for the politically aware. lol Thanks for all the great movie recommendations.
These French elections are very strange. Macron & Le Pen are both committed to exiting NATO, hence their surge in the polls, in line with French sympathies for the Russian plight, and a more basic desire to exit a war that is not theirs. Zemmour has messed up I think. He is vehemently anti-Nato, (and would leave the integrated command immediately), but he has been inflexible, consecrating his potential first term to the immigration problem, and so unable to shift gear and up the Nato ante.
Strictly speaking, he was the frontrunner until Feb 24….
https://www.lebigdata.fr/qotmii-tout-savoir
Bear in mind that Le Pen won’t actually leave Nato while the war is ongoing. I wonder if French voters have grasped this…….
Correction – Melenchon & Le Pen!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ….lol, ill today
Movie Mentioned: The Multi Stalking? Please clarify. Thank You
Great convo, Matt knows so much history and you know so much of everything. Did you see this on the simulation theory? https://medium.com/p/through-the-quantum-looking-glass-or-buckle-your-seatbelt-dorothy-cause-kansas-is-going-bye-bye-3579e190f596
A decent flick nobody has seen-mocks leftie norms: Family Weekend, 2013.
Good flicks no one has seen:
Sand Pebbles 1966
Tamara Drewe
Family Weekend, 2013
Grand Canyon, 1991
“Cross of Iron” (1977) directed by Sam “The Wild Bunch” Peckinpah. Orson Welles thought it “the greatest war film ever made.” Ck it out – an overlooked classic.
Shanghai has had 26 million people locked up for weeks, with many thousands forced into “testing centers” for their own good. Anyone who thinks China (and Russia) are in on this great re-set is crazy. According to Tom, This is settled law. Get those filthy thoughts out of your head. Are Chinese men as craven and obedient as the typical American male? Why is Shanghai acting so much like NYC in March of 2020? I can assure you that More lockdowns are coming to the USA. Most men will take it, just give them a few Marvel movies and some Mac and cheese, maybe some tater-tots, and they’re good.
Thanos was a more interesting character in the comics than in the dumb movies. In the comics, he was indeed a nihilist, but he was just a really powerful being that happened to be in love with the personification of Death (an actual powerful being in the Marvel comics) and wanted to impress her by killing half the universe. After wiping out half of everything, Death still wasn’t impressed and wanted nothing to do with him. It wasn’t anything about Malthusian “balance” or that type of nonsense that’s portrayed in the movies. In the comics, after procuring the stones in the infinity gauntlet, he became all powerful (even more powerful than the universe itself), but he ultimately lost that power because deep inside he felt himself unworthy to wield it. Marvel comics, at least when I was a kid before the early 1980s, were just interesting fantasy stories for kids with interesting characters, without any deeper messages as far as I was concerned. They’re cartoons, ffs.
Was just reading the annual report for 2021 for US Corp Bunge as a shareholder, and it is noted in the report that Bunge’s debt is no longer using LIBOR , but is using the TONA, Tokyo, Japan
Overnight Average Rate which was established in 2016 and is determined and administered by the Bank of Japan. I will assume many other major international corporations have done the same. There are all sorts of currency implications here and may relate to actions by the Bank of Japan decisions in depreciating their currency recently. A deep dive on this may be interesting revelations.
Mystery Grove Publishing Co publishes his based movie playlist on twitter (and often deletes it and often adds to it) here’s an older portion of it: https://www.listchallenges.com/mystery-grove-publishing-cos-reactionary-film
not to everyone’s taste (very police themed)
but some good left field choices in there.
more based list of movies being collected the better!
Could you guys talk about economics next time? Ehret is cool and I’ve been following him for a little bit but he’s a follower of Lyndon LaRouche, thinks Adam Smith and Hayek are psyops by the British Oligarchy, that Mises was a pawn of the Hapsburgs, and that economic Nationalism in the vein of Hamilton and Henry Carey is good for the average person. I like Ehret a lot but I’d love to hear a good Austrian debate him on this stuff.
I watched the Crypto Rich show Tom, and it was good, but then you started blowing up like the US 10 year. It really made me wonder if you are a dispassionate analyst, or simply so enraged by the actual feckless continued existence of Europe that you will force any analysis to prove how the hidden backhand of the markets, Adam, has a pathetic fallacious twin, the hidden forehand of natural justice, Will, who slaps and will continue to slap the European animus mercilessly until it knows its place.
I don’t personally think that being a proud American and heritor of many exceptional traditions is incompatible with viewing the US deep state as the source of all evil and idiocy in the world. In fact, I think one becomes a better American for owning it.
It is very frustrating watching people contort themselves into weird conclusions about who is driving what’s happening
Im not a “proud” American. If anything, I’m deeply ashamed of where we are and how much we have betrayed the ideals of the revolution which shook the world to its core
But it is also very clear that the old colonial powers who have nothing to be proud of either, have worked almost from the beginning to undermine the US and with it the ideas of individual liberty and sovereignty.
If that isn’t something worth blowing my stack over at this moment in time then I truly do not what is?
Sorry if you don’t like it or want to face it. It sickens me that we are staring at a world war and so called diligent analysts are playing cheap political games to lay blame. We have plenty of blame to take here in the US nut I’m not going to stand by and let a bunch of Euro leftists play the victim card either
Think it reasonable to state we have the worst “elites” @ least since the summer of 1914.
Not all the evil and idiocy, only a part of it. The Europeans, by which we must mean the British Empire too, are at least as bad as the American deep state, Tom is completely right on that.
Okay, I hear you and thank you for your clarification.
But if you say on the one hand about the present Eurocracy: “They did it to themselves”, (i.e. they are sovereign authors of their own catastrophe), it seems to me difficult to maintain that a US, in possession of a humungous military, the world’s reserve currency, the most extensive secret services network, foreign military bases across the globe, political agents who openly “don’t give a fuck about Europe”, and who openly engineer regime change in European countries, who deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in Germany post WW2 across many bases, (having also demilitarized Germany), who led Charles De Gaulle to kick America out of his country, which earned him a rolling roster of assassination attempts, is somehow not a sovereign entity but actually a beleaguered beast of burden under the colonial spur. I remember once a woman on a local UK airbase got raped by a US serviceman. I asked my American Military Police friend to catch the culprit and he laughed. US military are not subject to local law. Not in Japan, not in Europe, and not even in England. Sorry, just saying it from our optic.
I believe that is what Henry Kissinger meant when he said: “To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous, to be a friend is fatal.”
There is a “choice” involved.
Yeah, that was funny when you floated the thought of Janet Yellen becoming president last year.
Oh wait.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/13/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-delivers-remarks-outlining-the-future-of-our-international-order-and-need-to-decarbonize-our-economies/
“As you read the speech, keep in mind she is not the President of the United States, or the commissioner of the New World Order, yet she presents herself as authorized to control the geopolitical constructs of the Biden administration. The hubris is astounding.
“Secretary Yellen: outlines the goals and objectives of the international order, predicts a concerning global famine, warns against the cleaving of financial mechanisms for international trade as an outcome of the Ukraine conflict, threatens any nation who does not support the western political alliance and outlines the need for decarbonization of the global economy.
“Yellen expresses all of these powers from the position of a U.S. Treasury Secretary, the equivalent of a government financial minister.”
Yeah hilarious ain’t it.
Another Anti-War Movie:
“The good the bad and the ugly”
just look at the settings/background
I like Matt Ehret, he can remember a lot more things than I can, but I’d like to give that brilliant guy more time to develop his philosophy. It needs some work. I’m less for the collective than he is. Mises was famous for calling people socialists and I often feel the same way. Perhaps that’s because there’s a guy down the street from me actually building the roads. He’s 79, btw. But I understand the numbers games Matt is looking at and I just prefer to opt out, what with the whole World War 3 situation going on and everything. Can’t we all just use Bitcoin Cash? We have private money now. The Fed is old.