30. Economics, Geopolitics, and Religion

A conversation with Jarrad. We discuss economics, antibiotic resistance, boom and bust cycles, tyranny, geopolitics, pseudoscience, religion, ideological division, nature vs nurture, the intellectual dark web, free will, and many other things. I was considering titling this episode "Dangerously Close to Being a Conspiracy Theory at Nearly Every Turn." Books to read: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer Aion by Carl Jung The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Hard Times Create Strong Men by Stefan Aarnio The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe A Hunter-Gather’s Guide to the 21st Century by Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Global Brain by Howard Bloom Articles about atheism in the 20th century: https://dailynexus.com/2012-02-22/wasnt-atheism-responsible-20th-century-atrocities/?fbclid=IwAR05lWjWKtxsCZhRLchL73P-q9XUefnn6WFRqtOBxvweHfFfJFHu6iZ_2e0 https://infidels.org/kiosk/article/the-fallacy-of-the-20th-century-atheist-regimes/ https://richarddawkins.net/2014/10/the-atheist-atrocities-fallacy-hitler-stalin-pol-pot/