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.
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– Kanye West doubles down on anti-Semitic tweet, Smith (2022) – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311837/Kanye-West-doubles-anti-Semitic-tweet-claiming-calling-bad-business.html
– A timeline of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Wile (2022) – https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-elon-musk-timeline-what-happened-so-far-rcna57532
– Chesa Boudin’s recall is great for San Francisco – and all crime-plagued cities, like NYC, Gelinas (2022) – https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/chesa-boudins-recall-is-great-for-all-crime-plagued-cities/
– Jeff Sachs lab origin intercept
– MicroStrategy: Ignore The Haters And Hold Through The Crypto Winter, Investor Trip (2022) – https://seekingalpha.com/article/4568319-microstrategy-ignore-haters-hold-through-crypto-winter
– Elon Musk says ‘populist Bomb’ is destroying humanity (2023) – https://fa.news/articles/367769/
– Mexican capo’s arrest a gesture to U.S., not signal of change in drug war strategy, Sherman et. al. (2023) – https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/mexico-drug-war-sinaloa-cartel-arrest-el-chapo-son-us-relations-20230107.html
– Crossover of the Year: Rogan x Zeihan – https://zeihan.com/crossover-of-the-year-rogan-x-zeihan/
– History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bombay_under_Portuguese_rule_(1534%E2%80%931661)
– Moon of Alabama – https://www.moonofalabama.org/
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. -Francis Parker Yockey