Hello everyone. This is Conspiruality, where we investigate the intersections and roots of

conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian

extremism. My name is Matthew Remski. You can follow myself, Derek and Julian, on Blue Sky. The podcast

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Short bonus episode today in which I'll be flagging some of the religious influences buried within Mark Carney's technocratic charisma. Mark Carney is a devout Catholic.

He opens his big 20-22 book with an anecdote about receiving a spiritual mission from Pope Francis.

So I'll get back to that in detail. The book is called Values, Building a Better World for All,

and it's Carney's meditation on the perennial tension between market values and human values.

He makes the incredibly unoriginal observation that modern society has mistakenly allowed the former to override the latter.

To explain this logic, he surprisingly relies on Marxist theories of surplus labor value,

the instability of markets based on profit motives, and the tendency for monopolies to become authoritarian.

But because in his analysis, the state socialist projects of the 20th century were all irredeemable failures, his medicine is liberal.

Markets are social constructs that must be grounded in solidarity, responsibility, and resilience to effectively serve the public good.

He talks about a purpose-driven approach to capitalism that prioritizes long-term goals,

such as climate sustainability and social equity. His critique of state socialism

is pretty standard capitalist exceptionalism. Managed economies, he says, are inefficient,

hostile to innovation and creativity. He thinks Smith's invisible hand has proven superior to planned

production, and he agrees with Fukuyama that the

tear-down of the Berlin Wall marked the end of capitalist socialist struggle.

He's even a bit of a dialecticist in that the problem, he says, is partly that the collapse of

communist regimes at the end of the 1980s reinforced a global shift toward market fundamentalism,

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