Episode 469 - World Upside Down
Living Myth
Michael Meade
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This episode looks at the shocking beginning of the new year in which the U.S. government invades Venezuela, extracts the sitting president and announces that it will be "running the country" that has the largest reserve of oil in the world. A dream that follows what appears to be the dissolution of the international order, that has mostly prevailed for the past eighty years, depicts the confusions and fears of a world turned upside down. It also shows how in the maelstrom of reckless conflicts and cultural betrayals, something ancient and enduring about the world is trying to be remembered and be rediscovered, and it seems to take some big trouble to awaken to it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective. |
| 0:19.3 | This episode looks at the shocking beginning of the new year, |
| 0:23.1 | in which the U.S. government invades Venezuela, |
| 0:26.1 | extracts the sitting president, |
| 0:28.2 | and announces that it will be running the country |
| 0:30.7 | that is the largest reserve of oil in the world. |
| 0:34.5 | A dream that follows what appears to be the dissolution of the international order that has |
| 0:39.9 | mostly prevailed for the past 80 years, depicts the confusions and fears of a world turned upside down. |
| 0:47.9 | It also shows how, in the maelstrom of reckless conflicts and cultural betrayals, something ancient and enduring about the world |
| 0:56.6 | is trying to be remembered and be rediscovered, and it seems to take some big trouble to awaken to it. Most likely there were not many people entering the new year with simple hopes for peace or order or justice. |
| 1:26.7 | Under the extreme conditions that currently plague both climate and |
| 1:31.1 | culture, the storms of change and the clouds of uncertainty hang over everything. Despite that sense, |
| 1:40.3 | it was truly shocking to see how soon any hopes of stability would be dashed |
| 1:46.9 | and how radically the rules of international law would be shattered by the American military |
| 1:53.1 | attacking Venezuela and abducting its president and first lady. |
| 1:58.4 | The shocks continued when Donald Trump as president of the United States |
| 2:04.7 | announced that he and his cabinet would be running the country of Venezuela, along with U.S. |
| 2:11.7 | oil companies that would take over what is considered to be the largest reserve of oil in the world. |
| 2:19.6 | Not surprisingly, but just as shockingly, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, |
| 2:26.1 | who calls himself the Secretary of War, soon delivered another series of bragging and |
| 2:33.1 | distressing comments. |
| 2:35.7 | He said, this is about the safety, security, freedom, and prosperity of the American people. |
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