Because if we're just blindly consuming and we're not stopping to wonder how these things are affecting our lives or how they're, you know, in some ways controlling our lives, then I think that's where we're really going down that dangerous road.

You're listening to the Corbett Report.

Welcome back, James Corbett here, CorbettReport.com, and a conversation that's being

recorded on the 27th of January 2020, about 10 a.m. Japanese time for those keeping track at home.

And today we're going to be talking to a guest that you will know by now, if only from our repeated

conversations with him in the past. We're talking to Derek Brose of TheConsciousresistance.com,

and the link will be in the show notes in case you have trouble typing that into your URL bar.

But you will, as I say, be familiar with him and are repeated conversations about issues like

agorism, counter-economics, freedom cells, holistic anarchism, we've talked about many

different things that we will be talking about again today in a slightly different context and in some

more detail surrounding a book that Derek has just written called How to Opt Out of the Technocratic

State, which is obviously a timely and important topic to be talking about.

So it's an honor to have you back on the program, Derek. Thanks for joining us.

Yeah, James, thanks for having me. It's always good. I think we've talked about everything you said

there and the finders and so much more. That's right. So I hope people will check out our previous

conversations that they haven't done. So I'll put the link in the show notes along with everything else that we talk about today because some of these concepts are

foundational and will be important to what we're talking about today but let's let's start with the

sort of big picture of this book how to opt out of the technocratic state what is the in short form

what is this book and why did you write it well so your viewers will be familiar with the term technocracy, you know, and the state

general, especially if they've listened to your interviews with Patrick Wood and others

describing the technocracy that we're seeing unfold here with things like the 5G smart

grid and with biometrics and facial recognition scanning and just

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