While there is a lot of material to post, massive instability all over the place, Russians victories in Ukraine, Riots in the streets in Iran due to a currency collapse and more, there is not a lot of time to post them with any purposeful commentary. Lots in the Reader’s Links posts though. Hopefully lots of people are perusing them.
The video below is by someone who makes obviously AI videos, and way too often to be thought out. Still, they are pretty good on his subject, which is silver and the game of musical chairs with derivatives which appears to be ending with only the people holding physical metal with a seat.
The reason I feel this is worth posting, despite the many obvious AI tells, like the annoying and quasi meaningful juxtapositions which is so typical of Chat GPT writing, is because the core concepts are extremely similar to my own best thinking on the subject, In this case, how the state may deal with people who actually managed to accumulate physical metal to navigate the obvious engineered crisis the state is creating. But the state also takes new additional powers in an emergency, and what defines an emergency keeps expanding. We really saw that clearly during Covid when a seasonal flu meant a communist revolution.
In any case, here is a recent interview by the AI Silver guy.
Any and all comments on what he has to say, especially once he gets into the subject is appreciated. it certainly is in harmony with the famous Mark Twain quote: “History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme”. But that rhyme will be at least as awful for us all as was the 1934 state move against people who held metals.