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Why Am I Reading This Now? 10.23.23

By Harper Hunt | October 23, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. What’s in Biden’s $106 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine www.washingtonpost.com As war grows,…

Why Am I Reading This Now? 01.15.24

By Harper Hunt | January 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrativ‌e campaign. Iowa is a very red state. It’s also a clean-energy powerhouse | CNN Politics…

Round Two of the Unmooring Rates Trade

By Ben Hunt | January 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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…in particular the last sentence of item #4: And if there’s even a whisper of another big fiscal spending program coming out of DC … well, that will be a…

The Bitcoin ETF Tipping Problem

By Dave Nadig | February 6, 2024 | 11 Comments
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…interesting dialog is about how the possible interacts with the now. Our legal system (particularly the U.S. legal system) is still just starting to wrestle with the most important parts…

Two Quick Narrative Observations

By Ben Hunt | March 7, 2024 | 0 Comments
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…me, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal) and the Inflation Reduction (LOL) Act, and occasionally even a reference to the “need” to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs (LOL) Act. None of…

Metaphysics, Consciousness, Nature of Reality: a Thread from the ET Forum

By Ben Hunt | January 23, 2023 | 196 Comments
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…at all. Here’s the original post that started the thread … Starting this thread as a fork from a prior ‘narrative’ thread that starting diverging somewhat and becoming quite metaphysical….

Hammers and Nails

By Rusty Guinn | February 8, 2021 | 16 Comments
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…Squarespace Super Bowl commercial in which Dolly Parton switches her classic tune to “5-to-9” as part of celebrating how website-building technology can help people surviving office drudgery express themselves or…

Reap the Whirlwind

By Rusty Guinn | January 11, 2021 | 50 Comments
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…party uses to replenish the coffers. Because both parties have had later absolute majorities and not addressed it. The Fraud! meme starts on the preferred party PR channel (Fox/CNN), then…

We Were Soldiers Once … And Young

By Ben Hunt | October 13, 2018 | 38 Comments
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…the Outgroup, particularly in light of ET’s Things Fall Apart. MrMoneyMustache.com – a call for radical departures from the typical lifestyle, and finding what makes one happy. Disguised (openly) as…

The Zeitgeist – 3.14.2019

By Ben Hunt | March 14, 2019 | 15 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some sort of chord that has been struck in Narrative-world. The Good and the Bad of Stanford’s Massively Successful Startup…

Inception

By Ben Hunt | April 14, 2020 | 15 Comments
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…empathy. The Golden Rule is the only law of the Pack. The Golden Rule IS the Full Hearts of Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose. The Golden Rule is the…

Inside the Skinner Box

By Rusty Guinn | December 3, 2018 | 8 Comments
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Ben and I are what you might call old school gamers, by which I mean that we were rabid fans of video games, and PC gaming in particular, back when…

The End of History and the Triumph of Fiat World

By Ben Hunt | February 21, 2024 | 25 Comments
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…‘data’ to support The Long Now where the Inner Party is always right. Generative AI in the City of Man IS the Outer Party. Generative AI is ALL the Winstons, who in my vision…

The Intellectual Rot of the Industrially Necessary University

By Ben Hunt | January 23, 2024 | 60 Comments
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…to support. Exactly like Claudine Gay, Johann Tetzel was a catalyst for fundamental change in the University Church. Martin Luther (1483-1546) On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther sent a long…

The Long Now, Pt. 3 – Wink

By Ben Hunt | October 17, 2019 | 13 Comments
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…Part 1: Tick-Tock Part 2: Make, Protect, Teach Part 3: Wink Part 4: Snip! That’s me on the left, giving Luca a pat on the head. That’s Neb Tnuh on…

What’s Your Metagame? An Open Letter to the Crypto Community

By Ben Hunt | November 23, 2018 | 21 Comments
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…the Epsilon Theory website. You can enter the rabbit hole from pretty much any point, but the “Things Fall Apart” series is a particularly good place to  start. In any…

ET Live – 1.15.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 15, 2019 | 3 Comments
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…say in Maine, “You can’t get there from here.” And Just in…Apparently, the FBI, and not the CIA, are the real government…the coup is ongoing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/fortnite-skins-are-key-to-the-future-of-global-tradehttp:// https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/green-new-deal-stuff-fantasyland.html https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/01/httpswwwcnncom20190114politicstrump-fbi-debate-investigationindexhtml.html ***PS…Maybe we…

I’m a Superstitious Man

By Ben Hunt | August 13, 2019 | 9 Comments
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…What does a movement of refusal and disengagement look like? Start here … https://www.epsilontheory.com/things-fall-apart-part-3-politics/ And then go here … https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-1/ The Second Foundation hides in plain sight. PDF Download (Paid…

Nudging State, Noble Lies

By Ben Hunt | August 4, 2021 | 29 Comments
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…credible private parties to engage in counterspeech. (5) Government might engage in informal communication with such parties, encouraging them to help. Each instrument has a distinctive set of potential effects,…

Language is a Virus: Mike Pence edition

By Ben Hunt | August 11, 2023 | 61 Comments
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…agreed or disagreed with me, but in the linguistic patterns used in the replies. Here, let’s start with my Democrat-leaning friends. Words of therapy have infected blue tribe brains. How…