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FINAL Ep 100. The Betatization of Civilisation with Richard Cooper. FINAL WAKE UP EPISODE
Season 3 · Episode 100
Monday, January 2, 2023 • Duration 01:08:51
"The west has degenerated and men have been the sacrificial goats"
Richard Cooper, Author of The Unplugged Alpha, Host of Entrepreneurs in Cars & a mentor to men around the world joins me on THE FINAL episode of The Wake Up Podcast to discuss his book, Jordan Peterson's Marriage Series, Women, Life, Manhood, Brotherhood and much more.
We dig into Peterson's comments about men's duty in marriage, and discuss the blind spots and holes in the argument.
Ep 99. To the Socialists of all Parties, with Parker Lewis. Bitcoin Times Series.
Season 3 · Episode 99
Sunday, December 18, 2022 • Duration 01:36:12
“Governance is a scale problem. Let’s fix the money first, and then worry about the rest”
Parker Lewis, The Author of Gradually then Suddenly, who everyone knows from The Bitcoin Commons & Unchained Capital, joins me to discuss his journey into the world of Austrian Economics, alongside his contribution to the fifth edition of The Bitcoin Times.
The last episode we recorded together was #21.
A special number
In this one we touch on:
Journey into Austrian Econ
Practical VS Theoretical.
Vegan & Keynesian
Thoughts in the Libertarian or AnCap movement?
Does Bitcoin make it possible?
Modern Governance
Dangers ahead for society
Stone Age, VS Digital Gulags
Are humans weaker now than in the past?
Have material resources made us morally & spiritually weaker?
And much more!
Follow Parker @ParkerALewis on Twitter.
Follow Unchained at @UnchainedCap
Follow The Bitcoin Times at @TimelessBitcoin
Pick up a copy of The Bitcoin Times at:
BitcoinTimes.io/Shop
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Ep 98: Free Will, Uncertainty & Risk with Pierre Rochard
Season 3 · Episode 98
Sunday, December 11, 2022 • Duration 01:01:34
"A real comparison between gold & bitcoin is to compare their relative ability to alleviate uncertainty"
Pierre Rochard, VP of research at Riot Platforms Inc, and yes - THAT Pierre, joins me finally, on the Wake Up Podcast to discuss his new piece for The Bitcoin Times, entitled; Bitcoin VS Gold.
Now..this is not just another one of those articles.
This one is short, concise and you WILL take away with you a concept that you may not have thought about before. The difference between uncertainty and risk.
You can find the fill article here on The Bitcoin Times website:
How military conquest has been overshadowed by monetary policy
Why Bitcoin Fixes This
Doing your own verifying and indexing is the only way to be sure your index data is secure.
— Satoshi Nakamoto
A full node as an independent bookkeeper
“The bitcoin network was architected in such a way that a full node can operate in a bunker, cut off from the rest of the world, save for a single internet connection”
The dangers of people who keep trying to extend it’s purpose beyond that, in some attempt to make it do everything (eg; Ethereum, and even Bitcoiners with Ethereum envy, eg; Stacks)
Bitcoin Nodes and Methodological Individualism
What is Methodological Individualism ?
How does it manifest with a Bitcoin Node?
The idea that Bitcoin exists on the node seems to fry people’s brains because they can’t conceptualise how a global network can simultaneously be here in a local node.
Ep 96: Toward a Node World Order Part 1 With Michael Goldstein, aka; Bitstein.
Season 3 · Episode 97
Sunday, November 27, 2022 • Duration 59:31
“All Bitcoin is paper bitcoin until verified by your own full node”
Bitstein is the co-founder of both The Nakamoto Institute and Noted Bitcoin Podcast & he’s one of the most well read people I’ve ever met.
He joins me on the show to discuss the first essay he’s written in a LOOOONG time, called:
Toward a Node World Order;
How Bitcoin Obsoletes Inflation & Promotes Human Flourishing.
We covered so much ground in this ep, that we split it into two parts.
In part one we cover:
Nodes. What they are, why they’re important and how they manifest our will onto the Bitcoin Network.
“Perpetual vigilance on the part of the citizens can achieve what a thousand laws and dozens of alphabetical bureaus with hordes of employees never have and never will achieve: the preservation of a sound currency.”
This is clearly how Bitcoin & nodes seem to have manifested his quote, but what do you think he envisioned when he said this?
What is the Malthusian Trap?
How did we solve for it?
The Origins of the Austrian School of Economics With Rahim Taghizadegan
Season 3 · Episode 95
Sunday, November 20, 2022 • Duration 01:24:36
The Origins of the Austrian School of Economics
"There are two types of enlightenment. Grass roots, like the Austrian or Scottish kind, or Top down like the Jacobin or Fabian kind."
Rahim Taghizadegan is most well known as an Author, Bitcoiner & Educator/University Lecturer and the “Last Austrian Economist in the direct Austrian Tradition”.
He wrote a piece for the latest Bitcoin Times, Austrian Edition.
This man is an absolute WEALTH of knowledge and I we had an incredible discussion about the origins of Austrian Economics, money, banking and merchant networks - all which are precedents to Bitcoin.
If you’re a history buff and love to learn about the origin of things, THIS is an episode you will absolutely love.
We cover:
A history of Austrian Economics:
Menger & his lineage. Menger as a bright “node” in emergent Austrian thinking
A little about the Crown prince
Who was the Nobel Laureate (Hayek?)
Menger’s students
“Two lesser-known nodes in the network of the Austrian School would go on to have a much more profound impact on the world than the academic heirs of that tradition.”
Felix Somary who became one of the founders of Swiss private banking.
Richard Schüller, one of the best-connected diplomats of his time, who played an equally underestimated role in the return to peace after the World Wars and the independence of small post-war Austria.
Psychedelic Series Pt 3. The Spiritual Realm. Will Spencer & Tomer Strolight. Ep 94
Season 3 · Episode 94
Sunday, November 13, 2022 • Duration 02:12:32
Can you enter the psychological realm without also entering the realm of spirit?
And what are the consequences of the latter?
Welcome to the third Episode of The Psychedelic Series on The Wake Up Podcast.
Will Spencer & Tomer Strolight join me to discuss a wide range of ideas, both for and against the use of such substances.
This is one of the best, and most requested series I've recorded.
More episodes coming up, and each will cover topics listed below, and more:
What are psychedelics?
Why Psychedelics?
Why did you choose to take this side of the discussion?
Why does it matter so much to you?
What is your story of psychedelics?
Did it make you more open or close minded?
What’s your position on Ego?
What’s your position on Masculine & Feminine energies?
What’s your position on trauma?
Are you familiar with the Adlerian School of Psychology?
Do you sit in the cause or effect side of the universal equation?
Who are people you respect. Current and ancient figures. Why?
What values do you respect in individuals?
What social norms do you think matter most, and which are we missing?
Do you think the world has issues right now that are resultant of liberalism or conservatism?
Do we live in a society that is over-medicated?
Are people weaker as a result of always having a cushion?
Thoughts about the normalisation of these substances in the modern age & their use by the ‘average person’?
Thoughts on their use as ‘medicines’?
Thoughts on their use as shortcuts or even pathways to ‘enlightenment’?
“Beware of Unearned wisdom”
Ep 93. Psychedelic Series Pt 2, Medicine or Mierda? With Brandon Quittem & Bitcoin Mechanic (Lex).
Season 3 · Episode 93
Monday, November 7, 2022 • Duration 02:31:38
What is the most honest use for Psychedelics?
- Spiritual, Medicinal, or Hedonism?
Welcome to the second Episode of The Psychedelic Series on The Wake Up Podcast.
Brandon Quittem & Lex, aka Bitcoin Mechanic join me to discuss a wide range of ideas, both for and against the use of such substances.
This is one of the best, and most requested series I've recorded.
More episodes coming up, and each will cover topics listed below, and more:
What are psychedelics?
Why Psychedelics?
Why did you choose to take this side of the discussion?
Why does it matter so much to you?
What is your story of psychedelics?
Did it make you more open or close minded?
What’s your position on Ego?
What’s your position on Masculine & Feminine energies?
What’s your position on trauma?
Are you familiar with the Adlerian School of Psychology?
Do you sit in the cause or effect side of the universal equation?
Who are people you respect. Current and ancient figures. Why?
What values do you respect in individuals?
What social norms do you think matter most, and which are we missing?
Psychedelic: Demonic or Divine? Psychedelic Series Pt 1 with John Vallis.
Season 3 · Episode 92
Sunday, October 30, 2022 • Duration 01:40:46
Welcome to the first Episode of The Psychedelic Series on The Wake Up Podcast.
I've got John Vallis joining me to discuss a wide range of ideas, both for and against the use of such substances.
This is one of the best, and most requested series I've recorded.
I have many more episodes coming up, and each will cover topics listed below, and more:
What are psychedelics?
Why Psychedelics?
Why did you choose to take this side of the discussion?
Why does it matter so much to you?
What is your story of psychedelics?
Did it make you more open or close minded?
What’s your position on Ego?
What’s your position on Masculine & Feminine energies?
What’s your position on trauma?
Are you familiar with the Adlerian School of Psychology?
Do you sit in the cause or effect side of the universal equation?
Who are people you respect. Current and ancient figures. Why?
What values do you respect in individuals?
What social norms do you think matter most, and which are we missing?
Do you think the world has issues right now that are resultant of liberalism or conservatism?
Do we live in a society that is over-medicated?
Are people weaker as a result of always having a cushion?
Thoughts about the normalisation of these substances in the modern age & their use by the ‘average person’?
Thoughts on their use as ‘medicines’?
Thoughts on their use as shortcuts or even pathways to ‘enlightenment’?
“Beware of Unearned wisdom”
Are psychedelics a tool?
If so, then are they not neutral?
Ep 91. Principles of Biblical Masculinity with Elliot Hulse
Season 3 · Episode 91
Sunday, October 23, 2022 • Duration 01:29:00
"Respect goes up, Love comes down"
- Elliot Hulse
This is a show I've wanted to do for a very long time.
Elliot is someone I've respected since my early 20s when I watched his strong man and "Yo Elliot" videos on YouTube. In fact, it was around when YouTube first started. Crazy shit.
I've watched him transform, as I have transformed, and here we are more than a decade later having a discussion about topics of the utmost importance. Masculinity. Frame. The Bible.
We covered alot.
I asked him about his journey from Strong man into Christianity
From Boy into Man.
We discussed:
Rites of passage
Ego death.
Frame
Attitude
Purpose.
Responsibility
Aggression
And something he said recently, which I found very, very powerful:
"Respect goes up, Love comes down"
We spoke about the point at which Chaos meet Order.
And how modernity has both weakened the Masculine and eroded the Feminine.
“There is no bitcoin network outside of bitcoin nodes. Those who do not run their own full node are using someone else’s full node“
The Establishment of a Bitcoin World Order
A fundamentally better economic operating system
The Industrial Revolution freed humanity from the Malthusian trap. Bitcoin, having put an end to counterfeiting once and for all, frees us from the fiat trap.
Follow Michael @BitStein
Check out NakamotoInstitute.org
And buy your copy of The Bitcoin Times:
bitcointimes.io
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The difference between the Prussians of that era and their focus on Politics, VS the Austrian focus on culture and enterprise.
“In the Austrian empire, a limited group of merchants had been granted total economic freedom and tax exemptions to make up for the relative backwardness of the empire. Successful entrepreneurs gathered in Vienna, and their quickly rising wealth brought leisure without political clout, influencing, among others, people like Menger and Hayek.“
“In a way, they resembled the Scottish Tobacco merchants whose leisure and similar distance from the state had fostered the Scottish Enlightenment. And there had indeed been old intellectual connections through Scottish and Irish monks and the scholastic tradition.”
How did Switzerland emerge in the first place?
Switzerland and Alpine Regions as microcosms and remnants of the glory of Europe.
Emergent VS Top Down enlightenment.
Who were the Fabians & the Jacobins?
What is their view & model of the world?
Why has that remained so appealing?
Does Bitcoin change that?
This was an incredible conversation and one that I hope you will learn alot from.
Rahim made a book recommendation:
“The Raven of Zurich”
Go pick that up.
You can follow Rahim's work on twitter:
@scholarium_at
And of course, go check out the Essay & support The Bitcoin Times here:
bitcointimes.com.au/essays
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Reminder that you can pick up a copy of The UnCommunist Manifesto on Amazon:
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