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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

The Portal

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The Gated Institutional Narrative

Many of the people who called this epidemic early and correctly were the very marginal internet personalities that the legacy media folks loved to de d as trolls, grifters and gadflies. The portal has argued many times before that we have had an almost universally unworkable leadership class in place for just under 50 years. This is a collection of people who have refactored the institutions that they've led within our system, specifically to evade the embedded growth obligations or egos that were set in the previous era. We got here because we decided to ignore the future that we knew was coming. Our ubiquitous economists have hidden behind the mask of technocrats working for the public good, while merely pretending to

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