How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff - #557

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian. The world's richest people are preparing for the end. They're buying up farming land and below-ground bunkers in New Zealand. What catastrophe is it that they think is about to happen? And what happens if technology creates a techno-hell instead of a techno-utopia? Expect to learn what happens when you're invited to brief billionaires on the future downfall of the earth, whether having your own sovereign nation at sea is a realistic idea, whether it's possible to live in an underground missile silo with an indoor infinity pool, what mindset is driving this techno-paranoia and much more... Sponsors: Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 20% discount & free shipping on the best Ketone Drink at https://ketone-iq.com/ (use code MW20) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:56) How Billionaires Are Preparing Now for Doomsday (08:26) What Introduced Douglas to this Subject? (16:31) The Possibilities of Seasteading (26:33) Society’s Knee-jerk Reaction of Totalitarianism (31:46) The Parts of Preparation that Billionaires Struggle with (37:59) Desire for a Better, More Enjoyable Future (51:28) How Individuals & Society Can Improve (1:01:07) Where to Find Douglas Extra Stuff: Buy Survival Of The Richest - https://amzn.to/3XzAdRq Follow Douglas on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rushkoff Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show.
0:03.9	My guest today is Douglas Rushcough, he's a media theorist, futurist, writer and a documentarian.
0:10.5	The world's richest people are preparing for the end.
0:13.6	They're buying up farming land and below ground bunkers in New Zealand, but what catastrophe
0:18.9	is it that they think is about to happen?
0:21.5	And what happens if technology creates a techno hell instead of a techno utopia?
0:27.1	Like to learn what happens when you're invited to brief billionaires on the future downfall
0:31.4	of the earth.
0:32.4	Whether having your own sovereign nation at sea is a realistic idea.
0:36.9	Whether it's possible to live in an underground missile silo with an indoor infinity pool,
0:41.6	what mindset is driving this techno paranoia?
0:45.2	And much more.
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