I needed to step away and gather my thoughts after an extreme buildup of frustration with the futility of trying to cut through the incredible amounts of propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation in today's media.
As an independent, young voice in the world of media & economics, I have found it virtually impossible to counter the astounding amounts of propaganda disseminated by governments, central banks, major political parties, news media organizations, and, now, social media companies.
I've become incredibly frustrated with the all-out assault on our freedom of speech, incl. the rise of “cancel culture,” social media censorship, and Orwellian-style language policing. I am afraid that we are following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, East Germany, or China.
As futile as it may be, I am back from my break and have many new insights and observations that I'd like to share with those who are interested in hearing them.
I’d like to profoundly thank every person who has continued to follow me in these tumultuous & confusing times.
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In addition to my extreme frustration with the media world, which is overwhelmingly dominated by propaganda and disinformation, I became sick with coronavirus, which left me exhausted for several months. It's a very neurological disease, as I found out.
I've dramatically increased the scale of my prepping during my media break of the past few months.
We are not in normal times, nothing is "fixed" by any means, the government is not in control and they have zero clue what they're doing, and we're on the verge of a civil war.
I actually contracted coronavirus back in June, which was an interesting experience.
The acute phase of the illness (fever, weakness, chills) only lasted for a few days and I never had respiratory issues or needed to go to the hospital, thankfully.
I completely lost my sense of smell and taste for nearly two months.
I ate spicy Indian chicken tikka masala, but I could only feel the texture in my mouth.
I tried to smell an open bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol, but I couldn't smell it whatsoever.
I was very concerned that I had permanently lost my sense of smell and taste, which would have been devastating for a foodie and overall aesthete like myself.
Thankfully, those senses came back slowly but surely, and have completely recovered at this point. I am so grateful.
Crude oil is below $10/barrel - it's at multi-decade lows. That is bad for the shale energy bubble that I've been warning about. That will drag our economy down even if the pandemic lockdowns end this minute. The End.
There is so much more that I want to do and say, but I can't because I'm completely blacklisted in the media, which stifles my ability to produce quality content to warn the world of things that the mainstream media is hiding from you.
We've had a massive asset bubble that is now crashing.
Right now, most people are shell-shocked – they’re still in the denial phase.
They’re thinking “Is this really happening? We’ll go back to normal soon.”
$SPY $QQQ
Because we're still in the denial phase, I've been asked probably hundreds of times in the past couple weeks - "when should we buy stocks again?! What stocks should we buy?!"
To me, that is evidence that the "Bubble Mentality" is still very much alive...