Interview 1639 – James Corbett on the Human Extinction Event
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. We're speaking with James Corbett, publisher of the Corbett Report.com. He's speaking to us from Japan, where he has worked and lived since 2004. Welcome back to this week in money. |
| 0:12.3 | Well, thank you for having me back. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:15.3 | James, what's the latest with the Corbett Report? |
| 0:19.2 | Well, as we record this, I am about to drop a podcast that is going to use the GameStop saga |
| 0:25.5 | that played out earlier this year as a way of exploring the bigger history of the markets |
| 0:30.6 | and the manipulations on the markets and how, in the end, generally speaking, the vultures at the top of the financial pyramid |
| 0:39.4 | tend to win out, and the little guy at the bottom tends to get fleeced. |
| 0:43.2 | And that seems to be the same pattern that plays out time and time again throughout history. |
| 0:47.2 | So I'm going to go through some of that history, tie it into what's happening today, |
| 0:50.8 | and try to draw some conclusions about what this means for the average |
| 0:55.0 | mom-and-pop retail investor and their chances of surviving the economic turmoil it's undoubtedly coming. |
| 1:01.8 | Are we in a silent secret war that could lead to a mass extinction event? |
| 1:07.8 | You know, that's a very interesting question. And I'm not sure exactly how that was intended, but I know that the idea that we are in an |
| 1:15.5 | extinction event is one that has been floated quite a bit in recent years, specifically |
| 1:19.8 | surrounding this idea, that we are currently, we're in an anthropogenic extinction event in which humans are causing a mass die-off of species around the world because of their environmental manipulations, et cetera. |
| 1:36.1 | And I'm not sure if that was the context in which that extinction event was intended. |
| 1:40.2 | But I think, in a sense, it is true. |
| 1:42.7 | It's just not true in the way that we are generally asked to think |
| 1:45.7 | about it. And I think about it in very different terms. I think that ultimately, yes, the human species |
| 1:51.1 | is in the event of, at the very least, a transformative event that some people would, I'm sure, |
| 1:57.2 | frame as an evolution, but at any rate really does portend the end of the human species |
| 2:02.8 | as we've known it. And I know that does sound rather outlandish to people who have never |
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