With the truckers stuff, I think it showed a side of Canada that Americans had forgotten about for a long time. The average Canadian guy is actually not too different from Joe Schmoe in the U.S., he says. A lot of people here saw them as the vision into the future that Joe Sch moe is going to be basically hunted down by the government. He also talks about how bank accounts were frozen using technology like facial recognition and cell phone tracking. "It's exactly the same schizo mindset that underlines their immigration policy"
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Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.
