Off The Cuff: Meeting The Enemy

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

• The Intelligence Wars
  • When everyone is pointing fingers, whom are we to believe?
• The Need For Humility
  • Our current hubris is destroying the systems we depend on
• The Enemy
  • Is our our "neo'" agenda, whichever side of the aisle it's on
• Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
  • Reform needs to start with our own behavior

"We have met the enemy and he is us"

~ Pogo (Walt Kelly)

This week Chris and Charles hold up a harsh mirror to American society. So many of the long-term predicaments we face are issues of our own making, pursuits that benefit an elite few at the expense of the rest of us. The good news here is that we still have time to dramatically improve our odds of a better future by choosing to make different decisions going forward. The all-important question is: But will we?

As Charles opines:

There was just a report out that looked at the flow of money and resources between the developed West and the developing nations. It turns out that the flow is to the benefit of the developed Western nations by several trillion dollars. In other words, much more is extracted when you create a “market economy” than is provided in benefits.