rant · moment 8 of 29
Secret Rooms, Newport Gargoyles, and Engineering a War
from Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas) · #148
4 min
An extended riff imagining anonymous elites in a private club deciding the country needs a war or a plague to create jobs and cull the disengaged population, tying into debt to China and lack of STEM education.
- Tim reviews the top ten things that were happening as Rome collapsed, finding striking similarities to current conditions.
- The U.S. carries twenty trillion in debt while China owns everything, extracting short-term profits before their system inevitably fails.
- War with Iran seems imminent; a conflict larger than Iran is needed, which Tim suggests is engineered by unnamed powerful men in secret rooms.
- A private club atop a building with gargoyles in Newport, Rhode Island, where wealthy insiders decide how to manage global populations.
- These Newport elites want to keep the poor away from their city, so they engineer wars to prevent riots at the zoo.
- The strategy involves calling other world leaders to convince them they both need a war for population control and job creation.
- Young people won't pursue STEM education and instead major in English and gender studies, so the elite need conflict to reduce population and create opportunities.
- A war solves the problem better than plague—wars are controllable, whereas an actual pandemic like bird flu could spiral beyond their control.
- Plagues are unreliable because modern standards of living, education, and sanitation make them slower and less useful for population reduction.
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