Society

It is absolutely urgent and required that we share a coherent sense of reality. Yes, we can have differences of opinion, but we cannot afford to have different facts or to indulge in fantasies or embrace mental illness. We exist as we do courtesy of a highly complex, just-in-time global economy and financial system that…

This is the presentation I gave to open up our annual seminar. It’s important and needs to be shared. Our view, my view, at Peak Prosperity is that the world is full of increasingly large risks and there’s nobody really in charge who either grasps it or, even if they did, could realistically do anything…

George Orwell’s book 1984 described physical holes down which uncomfortable or unwanted news literally disappeared to be consumed in gigantic furnaces. They were called “memory holes.” Today their equivalent are detected in the form of events that somehow either disappear from the news quickly, or simply don’t make the news at all. In this episode,…