#394 - “I Was There” Tech Elites Are Planning Breakaway Civilization | Douglas Rushkoff

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Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, writer, lecturer and documentarian. He is best known for his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems, and also has written many books on topics including the occult, society, media, and technology. His latest book, "Survival of the Richest" reveals how 5 mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to the desert for a private talk.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Escape fantasies of tech billionaires

07:39 - Peter Thiel's model of reality

15:35 - The origin of money in the middle ages

25:32 - Kessler Syndrome

30:54 - How capitalism destroyed the internet

31:41 - The "scientistic" view of reality

35:51 - Epstein funded anti-spiritual science

41:12 - How wealth corrupts empathy

42:38 - Horizontal vs. pyramidal societies

47:07 - Getting high without drugs

54:09 - Meet your neighbors

01:00:04 - Big tech controlling the media

01:01:54 - Larry Ellison's surveillance infrastructure

01:06:22 - Moment of bliss during death

01:11:43 - Benefits of quitting social media

01:13:17 - The ISTA cult

01:18:34 - How written language changed the course of history

01:23:35 - American elites weaponizing religion

01:31:17 - Danny's fitness routine

01:35:03 - What happens to kids raised with wealth

01:37:38 - Attending one of Epstein's parties

01:45:33 - Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation

01:48:16 - Living in simulated realities

01:53:11 - The importance of "what if?"

01:58:15 - The only TED Talk that ever got censored

02:00:39 - Retrocausality

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