Geopolitics and Empire is joined by privacy tactician Gabriel Custodiate, author of The Watchman Guide to Privacy and host of the Watchman Privacy podcast. Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Gabriel.

It's nice to be here. And my stance is that privacy is fundamental to and even preceding freedom and individualism. So that's my stance.

Yeah, very good stuff. And I've been thinking more and more of privacy. I've been thinking about

it for a while for a couple decades. But now it's getting very serious. I've mentioned before.

Shout out to my, the geopolitics empire sponsor. above phone. I've got above phone myself, a

degougled phone and I've got a separate phone. I'm planning as well to de-google myself. And you

were on my T&T radio show last month. And on this episode, you're going to give us sort of an

intellectual history of the death of privacy.

You sort of look at the period of 1890 to 1950.

I didn't know you're writing a second book.

I've got a copy of your first book.

I highly recommend it.

Good stuff.

A lot of useful information.

And you argue that during this time, the concepts of the plasticity of man found in Darwinism and liberalism led to the birth of statism and of

eugenics, as well as the belief that we have inherited today, that a scientific elite can and should try to

solve all of society's problems. A main idea in this book is that privacy as an explicit concern

arises during this time as a response to growing centralization, centralization being the

antithesis of privacy. And just before we connected, I read a story about a, from Children's Health Defense, Europe,

about a Holocaust survivor in Germany now is going to be forced to be vaccinated by the German

government with the COVID vaccine and then renditioned for a year to a closed psychiatric

facility. So crazy times we live in. But, you know, we're off to the races. Take us where you

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