Economics, Geopolitics, and Religion | The Regular People Podcast Ep. 30

A conversation with Jarrad. We discuss economics, antibiotic resistance, boom and bust cycles, tyranny, geopolitics, pseudoscience, religion, ideological division, nature vs nurture, the intellectual dark web, free will, and many other things. I was considering titling this episode "Dangerously Close to Being a Conspiracy Theory at Nearly Every Turn."
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:23 Timestamps yet to be added (or never to be added)
43:32 Tyranny, soft power, and hard power
48:26 Religion and Jungian astrological aions
56:28 Oil dependence and the collapse of globalism
1:08:18 Credit, inflation, and the increased cost of rent
1:11:13 How come billionaires remain unassassinated?
1:14:00 Whether religion is a necessity
1:25:00 Whether Marxism is a religion
1:29:54 Transitional religion
1:35:02 The intellectual dark web
1:41:40 Free will and the collective unconscious
1:49:42 The need for new vocabulary
1:53:05 Jarrad’s book recommendations
Books to read:
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer
Aion by Carl Jung
The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Hard Times Create Strong Men by Stefan Aarnio
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century by Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Global Brain by Howard Bloom
Articles about atheism in the 20th century:
dailynexus.com/2012-02-22/was...
infidels.org/kiosk/article/th...
richarddawkins.net/2014/10/th...
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[@suy21]

This was a terrible guest. It could only go worse if you had an antivaxxer or a flat earther. I lasted till 40 minutes because I had a lot of spare time and wanted to hear how nonsensical it could get.

[@WadeAllen001]

Regular people come in all shapes and sizes.