rant · moment 21 of 21
Nobody Is the Good Guy (Michael Ruppert and Perpetual Growth)
from Depths of Self-Deception · #30
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3 minTim reflects on realizing nobody is really the good guy, brings up conspiracy researcher Michael Ruppert's decline into the desert, and criticizes the economy's need for perpetual debt-fueled growth and celebrity hypocrisy on climate change.
- 57:03The entire economy is based on the requirement that it grows 3% every year, which is impossible without perpetual borrowing against the future.
- 57:26Michael Ruppert figured all this out and ended up wandering around in the desert—the CIA drug trafficking researcher lost his mind trying to stay grounded while deep in the conspiracy woods.
- 58:09Tim is terrified about going to LA for two weeks because he won't be able to have normal conversations with anyone.
- 59:09Hillary should have won, knowing everything about deep state dynamics and the way empires inevitably rise from corrupt states.
- 59:34America's brand is walking around being fake sociopaths while claiming to care about climate change and then leaving people in hotel rooms for housekeeping to clean up.
- 59:56There's something beautiful about the depth of American self-delusion.
- 1:00:12Tim says he would have been a great fit in the Trump administration as a little Steve Bannon figure, but he fucked it up to be here doing the podcast instead.