White Pill:
It was mental giant @VDHanson who first turned me on to the idea of the “Trump archetype,” a repetition of that story that has existed throughout all of written human history. The broken and imperfect hero, the “high plains drifter,” the vagabond who rambles into town one day and is driven to clean things up and remove the bad actors in the way that the locals don’t have the spine to do.
Part of this archetypal story is that the drifter, once the “house has been cleaned” is quickly shunned by the townspeople. He stepped up to do what they could/would not, and they were grateful for a moment, but quickly turn their backs on him when normalcy returns.
Hanson, in this theory, imagined that the past 4 years were the end of the story. I thought he was correct for a time, but now I’m beginning to think that this story is actually just beginning.
And that, for everyone who thought that Trump v1.0 was too timid and didn’t make due on his promise to “drain the swamp,” looks like it’s a very good thing and a massive White Pill.
Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-The end of last year certainly felt like the Act 2, part 3 “Oh Lord, why hast thou forsaken me” part of the story arc in which the end seems nigh and there is no way out of “the badness” to many Americans.
--Now, the various elements of the Deep State, in its many forms and in places that most didn’t expect to get cut out/cleaned up, is being given its walking papers. All of the very worst people are frothing mad, and that is an indication that things are going swimmingly.
-Tariffs, Panama turning away from China, and having a US border again certainly seem like the Monroe Doctrine is back in effect. The US is one of the few nations on the planet that can self-sustain, and we are taking back our sphere of influence here in the Western hemisphere, it seems
-Those silly bastards to our North and South really think they can survive a trade war with the US, not taking the above into account. I don’t believe this fallacy will be allowed to sustain itself for very long.
Implications:
The host needs to be free of parasites and in full operational capacity to realize and maximize its potential. We seem to be in the beginning stages of both of those processes, and that implies that something truly exceptional is being built here once again.
The Weekly Read (Monday):
I’ve recommended this previously, and I just finished reading JFK and the Unspeakable towards the end of last week. If you’ve not read it, I cannot recommend it more highly. The number of analogs between JFK’s term and the time that we find ourselves right now is pretty remarkable.
His death marked the end of the American High period. For those who took me up on my previous recommendation and read The Fourth Turning, you recognize that term, and that it was at the opposite end of the 80-year saeculum that we seem to be ending (the “fourth turning” of the 20-year ages within the saeculum).
Fourth turnings are always marked, throughout human history, by times of chaos and turmoil. They often come to the point, as we seem to have been in quite recently, that there is a real fear of total societal destruction in one way or another (nuclear war was just one option on the table).
The other option is that society figures and works things out, and rather than destruction it emerges into the next “turn of the wheel,” which is right back into the “High” that is marked by innovation, increases in societal advances, cohesion, unity, and many other things.
Reading those two books together (JFK and the Unspeakable and The Fourth Turning) gives one an incredible perspective about where we are right now on the timeline as a nation, in a way that not much else will. The links to both are below, and I suggest reading them both, together:
JFK and the Unspeakable
amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakabl…
The Fourth Turning
amazon.com/Fourth-Turning…
Links mentioned in the show:
Intro & Outro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…
It was mental giant @VDHanson who first turned me on to the idea of the “Trump archetype,” a repetition of that story that has existed throughout all of written human history. The broken and imperfect hero, the “high plains drifter,” the vagabond who rambles into town one day and is driven to clean things up and remove the bad actors in the way that the locals don’t have the spine to do.
Part of this archetypal story is that the drifter, once the “house has been cleaned” is quickly shunned by the townspeople. He stepped up to do what they could/would not, and they were grateful for a moment, but quickly turn their backs on him when normalcy returns.
Hanson, in this theory, imagined that the past 4 years were the end of the story. I thought he was correct for a time, but now I’m beginning to think that this story is actually just beginning.
And that, for everyone who thought that Trump v1.0 was too timid and didn’t make due on his promise to “drain the swamp,” looks like it’s a very good thing and a massive White Pill.
Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-The end of last year certainly felt like the Act 2, part 3 “Oh Lord, why hast thou forsaken me” part of the story arc in which the end seems nigh and there is no way out of “the badness” to many Americans.
--Now, the various elements of the Deep State, in its many forms and in places that most didn’t expect to get cut out/cleaned up, is being given its walking papers. All of the very worst people are frothing mad, and that is an indication that things are going swimmingly.
-Tariffs, Panama turning away from China, and having a US border again certainly seem like the Monroe Doctrine is back in effect. The US is one of the few nations on the planet that can self-sustain, and we are taking back our sphere of influence here in the Western hemisphere, it seems
-Those silly bastards to our North and South really think they can survive a trade war with the US, not taking the above into account. I don’t believe this fallacy will be allowed to sustain itself for very long.
Implications:
The host needs to be free of parasites and in full operational capacity to realize and maximize its potential. We seem to be in the beginning stages of both of those processes, and that implies that something truly exceptional is being built here once again.
The Weekly Read (Monday):
I’ve recommended this previously, and I just finished reading JFK and the Unspeakable towards the end of last week. If you’ve not read it, I cannot recommend it more highly. The number of analogs between JFK’s term and the time that we find ourselves right now is pretty remarkable.
His death marked the end of the American High period. For those who took me up on my previous recommendation and read The Fourth Turning, you recognize that term, and that it was at the opposite end of the 80-year saeculum that we seem to be ending (the “fourth turning” of the 20-year ages within the saeculum).
Fourth turnings are always marked, throughout human history, by times of chaos and turmoil. They often come to the point, as we seem to have been in quite recently, that there is a real fear of total societal destruction in one way or another (nuclear war was just one option on the table).
The other option is that society figures and works things out, and rather than destruction it emerges into the next “turn of the wheel,” which is right back into the “High” that is marked by innovation, increases in societal advances, cohesion, unity, and many other things.
Reading those two books together (JFK and the Unspeakable and The Fourth Turning) gives one an incredible perspective about where we are right now on the timeline as a nation, in a way that not much else will. The links to both are below, and I suggest reading them both, together:
JFK and the Unspeakable
amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakabl…
The Fourth Turning
amazon.com/Fourth-Turning…
Links mentioned in the show:
Intro & Outro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…
Tariffs Work
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