Hi folks, Jack Spirco here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes. Podcasts blasts from the pasts. I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations. These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds, but will be titled

TSP Rewind Episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today we are rewinding back to October the 10th, 2017.

This was originally episode 2096.

Decision making with logic and reason.

I would say that this episode was really, really, really, really needed in 2017 when I did it.

I would say today, in 2025, what is eight years later, it's more necessary than it was then.

Society by and large abandoned the little bit of logic and reason used to make decisions that we had 10 years ago.

Primarily, I believe there is a bifurcation point in society that is the COVID pandemic.

I really do.

And I don't mean some of the new normal bullshit or anything.

I mean, like, literally the ability to think.

I feel like there was a segment of society.

I think it's the minority, too.

It's probably 30 to 40 percent, somewhere in that range.

Their ability to think was actually heightened by COVID.

Because once they realized it was bullshit,

they then took a lot of the places where they thought they were doing this,

logical decision-making component, and realized,

I am doing it, but I'm giving way too much weight to opinions that come out of the mainstream.

Experts say, studies say, is reported by Fox News, etc.

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