Crash Course 2.0: Chapter 1 – Setting The Table
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
4.7 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Crash Course remains a solid work of framing. One of the best of my life (so far).
Because so few people have taken it lately, beginning with today’s ‘Chapter” I am redoing the entire Crash Course, piece by piece, as my weekly public videos from now until it’s done.
I think everybody should see it, and that’s my only request.
Agree with me, disagree with me, take it to heart, or decide to ignore it, I truly believe everybody deserves a chance to accept or reject the premise.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Chris Martinson here, and I'm about to embark on a very special series here for you. |
| 0:07.2 | And this is around something called The Crash Course. I asked you what you wanted to see for content. |
| 0:11.2 | A lot of you said, well, we want to understand the financial system. |
| 0:14.8 | Now, if you know me and you've been around my material for a while, I'm a long-form thinker. |
| 0:19.3 | I believe in context. I believe that we need to have an |
| 0:22.1 | appropriate level of background and shared understanding. That's in terms of concepts, linguistically, |
| 0:28.9 | do we share the meaning of words? We have to be able to have this shared understanding in order |
| 0:32.9 | to have a deeper conversation. Look, times are serious right now. The crash course, I believe, |
| 0:39.8 | explains a lot. Now, I'm going to present this all to you. It's today's episode is just going to be |
| 0:44.8 | one of a series of chapters. Today I'm going to set up, I'm going to set the table today. |
| 0:49.1 | And we're going to talk about the core things we need to understand so that I can begin to tell |
| 0:54.1 | you how money is created. Now, it's... We're going to talk about the core things we need to understand so that I can begin to tell you |
| 0:54.2 | how money is created. |
| 0:56.2 | Now, it's really important that we get this because there's going to be some really explosive |
| 1:03.1 | changes coming. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm not going to ask you to believe me. |
| 1:06.3 | I will provide all the sources. |
| 1:07.9 | You ask any questions. |
| 1:08.8 | Where did this come from? |
| 1:10.1 | Challenge me. I welcome it. |
| 1:13.3 | I am not asking you to believe me. I'm asking you to listen to me. And then you decide what |
| 1:19.3 | you want to do with this information. You could ignore it. You could completely reject it with |
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