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Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Mindset?

This kind of fusion of some of the worst elements of scientism and capitalism and technocratic thinking all coming together in this stew of idiocy and delusion. I was arguing that there's more going on here that meets the eye that people might be connected, that consciousness may be a shared phenomenon. And finally, I got to like, what if the universe leans towards something? They laughed at me and called me a moralist. Of course, 10, 20 years later, you see Richard Dawkins and the other materialist scientists who say the world's getting better from science and technology. It's an amoral understanding of reality where you dominate nature, dominate women.

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