In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- Society’s fatal flaws and it’s inability to acknowledge them
- Why reducing your dependence on central institutions is one of the best investments to make today
- How reclaiming your food production produces valuable health, self-reliance and spiritual returns
The unrest rippling through society today is awakening more and more of us to the flaws of our current system. The benefits concentrate among too few, and those controlling the system seem happy to commit regular fraud in order to maintain their power and advantage. More and more of the masses are realizing that the inequity they are experiencing is an intentional feature of the system, not a glitch.
It is fair? No. Will it continue? Most likely yes, until things collapse from over-exploitation or civil overthrow. The important thing to do now, as Charles lays out, is to focus your frustration on constructive investments that reduce your dependence on our failing institutions:
There’s a database on my website with all of the fines for corporate violations — fraud, embezzlement, misrepresentation of risk, etcetera, etcetera. Hundreds and hundreds of violations, all corporate America.
As we know, it’s common for the violator to skim a full $1 billion but only have to pay a $10 million dollar fine, right? And maybe they spent another $10 million legally jerking around the Justice Department’s attorneys, so maybe it cost them $20 million total.
by pinecarr