What If Everything is Wrong

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 Pull up a chair. I'm not an expert, I'm not selling anything, I just started asking questions and couldn't stop. If you've ever felt something was off, you're going to want to hear this. 

  1. 2D AGO

    The Signal - The Beginning

    So what do we do? Not what should governments do, not what should the institutions do, not what should some new leader do. What do we do, you and me, the ordinary decent majority who never asked for any of this and don't know how to fix it. Every revolution in history has eventually become the thing it replaced. Every leader has eventually been corrupted or killed. So if not them, then who? The answer is smaller and stranger and quieter than you might expect. It starts with one person, and then one more, and then it becomes unstoppable.

    34 min

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    The Messengers

    The same message keeps coming back. Different language, different century, different continent. Zoroaster in Persia. Akhenaten in Egypt. Buddha in India. Socrates in Greece. Jesus in Judea. Rumi in Konya. Tolstoy in Russia. Gandhi in India. Martin Luther King in America. John Lennon in New York. Bob Marley in Jamaica. Different wrappings. Identical signal. And every time, the same thing happens to the people who say it. They get watched, and then silenced, and most of them die for it.

    20 min

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    Religion

    Where did it come from? And how did it get from one civilisation to another? The answer leads to a religion almost nobody in the West has heard of, a buried library in the Egyptian desert, and a question that hides in plain sight in the Bible itself.

    27 min

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    Consumerism

    This one's about to get uncomfortable. In every other chapter of this book we've been innocent bystanders, looking at institutions doing things that were out of our hands. Not this one. This is the chapter where I have to admit I'm part of the problem. I've bought from Shein. I've bought from Temu. I've scrolled through cheap clothes on my phone and clicked buy without asking the obvious question. How can it possibly be that price? Deep down I knew. I just didn't want to know properly. So this is me knowing properly. And it's not pretty.

    23 min

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    China

    I can't talk about every country, there's too much to say. But I have to talk about China. The good and the bad. Britain forced opium on it at gunpoint. Japan committed unspeakable atrocities in Nanking. Then it lifted 800 million people out of poverty in 40 years. And now it's putting a million people in camps.

    40 min

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    Science

    Science is my weakest subject. Then quantum physics caught my attention and I couldn't make head nor tail of it, so I kept digging. What I found is so mind-blowing it ties into everything else in this book. Things in two places at once. Reality that responds to being looked at. And the same old pattern of who gets the credit and who gets crushed.

    12 min

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    Media

    From Gutenberg's printing press to TikTok, every new form of media has followed the same arc. It frees people, then it gets captured, then it gets monetised. This is the story of how the loudest, angriest and most dishonest voices ended up with the biggest megaphones, and who collected the data while it happened

    15 min

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    Drugs

    The story of how the substances that humans have used for healing and understanding for thousands of years got criminalised, who benefited from that, and what's quietly being rediscovered now that the science is catching up. Plus the small matter of MKUltra, the CIA programme that dosed its own citizens with LSD while telling everyone else the drug would melt their brains

    24 min
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 Pull up a chair. I'm not an expert, I'm not selling anything, I just started asking questions and couldn't stop. If you've ever felt something was off, you're going to want to hear this. 

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