International Man: Ever since the break out of the Covid hysteria, federal government control over daily life has reached extraordinary levels. Petty bureaucrats now work out control over who can open their businesses, whether you can go to a dining establishment, and even whether kids can go to school.
Where is this all going?
Doug Casey: There are essentially 2 types of individuals on the planet– individuals that like to manipulate the physical universe and produce things and people who like to manipulate other people and control them. Individuals who enter into federal government, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, are the latter. They threaten.
The issue is that the average citizen in every nation around the world has actually come to think that the government is the most essential entity in society. It’s not; it’s a coercive fiction, a parasite that produces absolutely nothing. The incorrect kinds of people are being provided even more control.
Once individuals with a particular mental state of mind– that 2nd type of person I just mentioned– take control, things undoubtedly worsen.
In Washington, DC, as well as in lots of state and city governments, we now have authentic Bolsheviks and Jacobins in control. That’s not to state that they’re always believers in those approaches, however they’re precisely the very same psychological types. Simply put, they’re exactly the type of people who once destroyed France and Russia, reincarnated in today’s America.
Once these types get control of the machinery of the State, they will not give it up. Power– the ability to push and control others– is central to their very beings. They’ll try to seal themselves in place now that they feel they can get away with it.
They’ll use their power aggressively, setting up counterproductive and damaging policies. The even worse things get, the more the public will look to the government to conserve them. It’s a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
The possibilities of getting a real as the president are really high. I’m really cynical since trends in movement tend to stay in movement– and this trend is speeding up quickly.
International Male: As a result of this trend, more parents than ever have selected homeschooling.
What’s your take on this?
Doug Casey: It’s cause for optimism.
First of all, education is something that you offer yourself. It’s not something that somebody– definitely not the State– provides you.
The value– and the initial function– of public schooling was generally to teach the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. With those basics and the ability to use a library or the Internet, which places all of the world’s knowledge within your reaches– you do not require anything else beyond that.
The fundamentals can be gotten in the very first six or seven years of grade school– for anybody, even slow learners. Beyond that, school simply bores most kids and is actually detrimental. It not just wastes their time and money but in fact makes them dislike learning. Homeschooling enables them to make the world their oyster while teaching specific obligation.
Secondly, most schooling today– certainly when you enter into high school and absolutely as soon as you get into college– is little more than indoctrination. Schools are places where your kids pick up bad ideas from the teachers and bad routines from other young yahoos they’re surrounded by.
Schools do not teach critical thinking– if indeed they ever did– at least since Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum. Crucial thinking is the habit of questioning all assertions and examining everything that we think we understand in the light of understanding, logic, the clinical technique, and your own research. That does not exist anymore in schools. In reality, the federal government and the establishment do not desire schools to turn out crucial thinkers and complimentary thinkers. To the contrary, they desire obedient, indoctrinated serfs who will do as they’re told and act as cogs in the wheel.
I believe it’s irresponsible on the part of parents not to effectively educate their kids. And that doesn’t indicate simply sending them off eight hours a day where they sit behind a desk and listen to government employees lecture them.
It costs an average of about $12,000 per pupil each year– we’re talking a nine-month year with long trips– to babysit and corrupt kids. That’s an outrageous amount. College, frequently over $50,000, can only be described as a scam.
No one has more of an interest in making education available to kids than their parents do; certainly not members of the teachers union. If the general public schools vanished, it would be a good idea. That $12,000 per pupil might remain in society so that people that wished to educate their kids correctly wouldn’t have to pay the toll twice.
A couple families could quickly get together and employ full-time, first-rate tutors to teach their kids one-on-one, instead of sending them off to a federal government factory to be indoctrinated.
The school system has actually become very corrupt from what it when was. Schools and universities are grossly obese with grossly paid too much administrators. Ninety percent of these bogus “educators” should be fired. Furthermore, many instructors now are overtly Marxist, and the rest are dim, however understanding to Marxist concepts. Schoolhouses at all levels need to be intellectually cleaned, then fumigated, if they can’t be eliminated.
I’m pleased many individuals are dissatisfied with schools and some are throwing down the gauntlet. It’s one of the couple of good things to come out of the Covid hysteria.
International Guy: What other methods can individuals opt out and gain back more control over their lives?
Doug Casey: The perfect option is to become a PT– a long-term tourist or prior taxpayer– but that’s not easy for many people. As I discussed last week, even if you do not want to internationalize, the next best thing is to quit your task and become self-employed.
But beyond that, in order to have control of your life, you require capital, which provides you flexibility and space to run.
So how do you get that capital?
If you’re not in a position to quit your job and become self-employed, then take a sideline– part-time. The advantage of that is your earnings will go up and your expenditures, in the way of consuming, will decrease. Put that money aside.
The key is to cut your costs to the bone and conserve. That implies don’t purchase that new cars and truck or trade approximately a bigger house. Do not head out and get a brand-new closet.
Build capital while the economy and the currency are still held together. Capital will permit you to take advantage of opportunities in the future, as opposed to getting deeper in debt like a serf.
International Guy: All the governments worldwide are pumping up away their currencies and taxing their people at ever-increasing levels.
How can the typical person pull out or at least restrict the federal government’s theft of their cost savings!.
?.!? Doug Casey: You wish to conserve, however conserving in fiat puts you on a treadmill.
If you leave your money in United States dollars or other currencies, you’re going to lose everything or practically whatever. You really need to discover to invest and hypothesize.
Sadly, buying the type of disorderly, government-controlled economy we’re moving into is difficult and becoming harder. On the bright side, the distortions the government is creating deal lots of avenues for speculation. I have actually gone over the distinctions between conserving, investing, hypothesizing, and betting in the past. However unless you study economics and the markets, if you try to speculate, you’ll most likely end up gaming– which is really different.
The key is to educate yourself on the ins and outs of the marketplaces– including crypto, currency, and product markets, not just the stock, bond, and property markets.
Right now, commodity markets are particularly fascinating. For instance, I’m of the opinion that natural gas, which is traded on the futures market, is currently around $5.00 per Mcf. I believe it might go much greater.
I’ve personally sold naked puts to capture the premiums, and I have actually bought long-term bull call spreads. If you’re not familiar with these things, then do not take my advice. But try to become familiar with these things.
Among the reasons I’m bullish on commodities is that with the Bolsheviks in workplace in Washington, DC, and real communists in control of a lot of nations worldwide, product production of all kinds is being made harder. At the same time, all the money they’re printing is developing synthetic need, and all the policies they’re passing are synthetically limiting supply.
Products have to do with the only low-cost things left; their prices are going a lot higher. You can capitalize on this as a speculator if you understand what you’re doing. But be careful because you can quickly clean yourself out.
Any cost savings that you have must be in small gold and silver coins, not in fiat currencies. I don’t see gold as an excellent speculation at $1800. It is, however, perfect for saving. In addition to supplying long-lasting upside, gold and silver coins are much more personal than keeping US dollars in a checking account, which the government can monitor.
Finally, if you’re going to keep your house and remain in the very same place, you may want to save by buying things like cigarettes, whiskey, immediate coffee, ammunition, and the like. If times get hard, all of those things are going to be difficult to come by. They’ll remain in high need– and they’re an option to fiat.
International Guy: Today, what we buy, who we connect with, and what we say are more quickly tracked.
Everyone’s private info is under assault by a private-public partnership of governments and huge corporations.
Where is this all going, and what do you suggest people do about it?
Doug Casey: As much as possible, keep a low electronic profile.
Get off Facebook and other social networks platforms. I have a Facebook account, but I never ever utilize it or access it in any way for anything personal. It’s strictly an organization tool– the same for LinkedIn and the rest of them.
Everybody must understand that social media is the primary manner in which they track you, learn what you believe, and find who you are. It’s just bad for that info to be in the hands of the bad guys.
Obviously, everyone has a mobile phone today; they’re tracking devices. Completely apart from that, the things are a nuisance, and many people are addicted to them. I have one, but I never use it other than when I’m traveling or at a conference.
I understand the worth of apps for browsing and such. It may be good, nevertheless, to have 2 cellular phone. The one you utilize for talking need to be a flip phone. The other can be used selectively for whatever apps you require.
On an individual level, speak out about these things whenever possible. Although it’s quite tough to turn back the tidal bore of statism and collectivism that’s cleaning over society, everybody needs to do what they can. You might want to begin by going to LiveandLetLive.org, run by my good friend Marc Victor, for useful ideas on what you can do. We simply taped a videocast that’s respectable, in my opinion. It will be released quickly.
I hesitate the United States and most innovative nations in the world are well on their way to integrating the worst traits of George Orwell’s 1984 with those of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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