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We're back after a pause precipitated by various conflicting projects and commitments. This week Mark and Charles had the honour to welcome to the show the author, futurist and social commentator Max Borders. Max is the author of The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse, and After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals. Borders' work around the idea of a coming "social singularity" has a lot of overlap with oft explored ideas here on the Axis: decentralization, networks and tectonic shifts occurring in the world today. We explored the concept of "Satyapgraha" or "Truthforce" and the ideals expressed in freedom movements throughout history.   Notes and References Robert Breedlove: Sovereignism Part 1: Digital Creative Destruction James Dale Davidson & Lord Rees-Mogg: The Sovereign Individual Presearch - the de-centralized search engine Jeftovic: The Transition Overview - Building Companies That Matter Max Borders' Resources Social Evolution website Max's Amazon author's page @socialevol on Twitter On Facebook

We're back to talk about the ongoing tension between the Nation State and ascending Network States, also touching on the dichotomy between centralized, mechanical approaches to things like farming vs organic, holistic ones. We observed the passing Dan Kaminsky - RIP, and while we didn't talk about it on the show, after the show I wound up listening to Bankless podcast's Crypto Renaissance episode and found it had a lot of parallels to what we were talking about today, it was almost uncanny.References and Links Brian Jackson's Tech Insights: Who took control of the Pentagon's IP space and why? Jesse's Conspiracy Theory as Post Literacy Dan Kaminsky RIP Robert Breedlove's: Sovereignism series, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3

We had to punt last week's show over to this week at which point we were able to reconvene to discuss system change, digital currencies, and China. References: Metaviews: Is Systems Change Inevitable? Bombthrower: Peter Turchin and The Age of Over-Abundant Elites Of Two Minds: America's Fatal Synergies  

We're back on April Fool's headed into the Easter Weekend: Show notes and references Can't Get You Out of My Head, the Adam Curtis documentary series Brazil is collapsing How Bitcoin Will Save Our Earth Life After Google, by George Gilder  

The squad got back together for another episode and we talked a lot about attention markets, Basic Attention Token, NFTs and CLIME. References and Links The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang The History of Capitalism by Fernand Braudel The Ethereum "civil war" (our phrase, not theirs) Grayscale launches BAT trust

Call this one "The Money Episode", we finally did that deep dive into the nature of money, wealth, capital and the different between fiat and inelastic currencies, and are we in the early innings of a deflationary crash before the tsunami of inflation.....

The triad is back to discuss alternative configurations to social media platforms. Please note that due to a technical problem Jesse's audio track had to be painstakingly edited in from a secondary audio capture, so it sounds a little off from the rest.    

Charles, Jesse and Mark are back again and found themselves talking about the farmer's protest in India, Twitter and the cognitive dissonance that can arise when you find yourself agreeing with the tech platforms you've been criticizing.

With what looks like a crowdsourced financial rebellion underway, Jesse, Charles and Mark pool their resources and mortgage their houses to buy deep OOTM Gamestop calls....

We're back from a somewhat extended Christmas break, and we had to improvise with a new recording setup after encountering some technical issues, but we got it done and we're happy to back with the first edition of the AxisOfEasy salon of 2021. Owing to various commitments we're dialling back to every other week for the trio, and will add interviews and special sessions on an ad hoc basis.