This podcast episode explores the impending financial collapse in America and the shift from dilutive to direct wealth expropriation by the government. It discusses the systemic incentives and ideological acceleration that drive short-term thinking and extreme positions, as well as the role of the Internet in suppressing free speech. The episode also delves into the growing cynicism on the right and the left's feigned shock over it, and the Republican Party's role in maintaining the fiction of regular predictable legal relations. It examines the importance of human capital, ownership and sovereignty, and the need to restore healthy hierarchies. The episode concludes with a discussion on the influence of conservative thinkers Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville in rebuilding a strong and stable society.