Okay… this is the long tweet I promised earlier today.

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I just finished recording a podcast session with @TFL1728 on the @CryptoRichYT podcast. I hope it turns out coherent and comprehensible. It’s always my worry after I get done speaking.

In that podcast we took an overdue step into looking forward from where we stand today. Up until now, the conversation I’ve started has largely looked backwards in order to explain what eschatology is, to validate it, and to elaborate why I choose to believe it acts as the Grand Unifying Theory to unraveling and explaining the upside down, nonsensical world in which we live today.

Subjects such as politics, economics, history, monetarism, science, medicine, finance, philosophy, etc., all have something to contribute to the discussion. But what unifies them and helps us to make sense of it all is the glue and the framework provided by eschatology. It is *this* conviction that motivates and inspires me to keep learning about eschatology and to keep sharing my findings. It satisfies my lifelong itch to understand the inner working of complex systems, and to freely share knowledge.

I aspire, in other words, to establish the Grand Unifying Theory that explains our current era. 🧵/2

I watched, live, the first Presidential debate of 2024 last night. My distinct impression was that Trump was his usual self, just less of a barking dog than normal. Perhaps because microphones were being switched off. Trump, we know, is mightily pro-Zionist, but is also pro-peace.

Biden, on the other hand, surprised me, which I thought would be hard for him to do after watching him steeply decline in mental and physical health for three-and-a-half years, or so. The unshakeable impression I got of Biden was that he was instructed to act out the sadness and the forlorn-ness of a man so riddled with dementia that he spends his mental time in a dimension alternate to our own. I know we’ve witnessed such moments from Joe in the past. But the constant focus of the camera last night on the face of the man who seemed to be leaning so heavily into the part he was playing that he risked one of his usual topples, left me with no other choice but to conclude the tail that is the media was yet again wagging us, the dog that is the audience.

It was such an extreme session of “Let’s Go, Brandon”, that not only did the Twitter-sphere erupt with like-minded chatter of the imminent demise of Joe, but so did the analyst-chatter erupt on the post-debate shows from CNN and MSNBC, etc. Whether the professional analysts were read-in to the plot in advance, or whether they were left out of the loop for an even more augmented after-effect from traditional media, I cannot say. But one thing is clear, everyone agrees Joe Biden is about to be walked off stage one last time by his primary abuser, Jill Biden, and will be replaced with a new leader of the Democratic Party.

The chatter, of course, is all abuzz with the question of, “who will replace Joe?” Gavin, Kamala, Mike, Hillary? Someone else? We all have our arguments of who we think it might be.

But in this moment of confusion and uncertainty, I feel the Grand Unifying Theory (the “GUT”) can contribute some solid vectors for analytic scrutiny.

At the cost of repeating ideas fragmented across many previous tweets, but for the benefit of clarity, let me formally expound the GUT all in one tweet thread. In doing so, I will also introduce new aspects of Islamic eschatology I have thus far refrained from discussing. These new aspects are forward-looking from our current station in time, whereas most of my previous discussion was rearward-looking in an attempt to explain my conviction for the validity of eschatology in our current era.

Once expounded, we will put it all in a box, tie it with a ribbon, and henceforth refer to it as the GUT.