Lucas Gage: U.S. Empire & Neoliberal Globalism Stretching Thin, World’s Getting Sick of It
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
USMC Veteran Lucas Gage discusses joining the marines after 9/11 and then becoming disillusioned with the GWOT, Military-Industrial-Complex, and American Empire. U.S. Empire or neoliberal globalism has basically taken over the planet with cultural, financial, and military conquest, but it’s stretching itself thin and the world’s getting sick of it. The U.S. has put Ukraine on a suicide mission and doesn’t’ give a damn about the country. The American political elite are keeping the nation divided (e.g. race, vaxxed, gender) as they pillage the country. American under Biden looks weak and WW3 is not impossible. He gives some tips on activism and planting seeds of peace and truth.
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About Lucas Gage
Born in Italy on May 18, 1984, I came to America at the age of two, and have lived most of my life in the State of New Jersey.
After I saw the 9/11 attacks live on television, I signed up for the Marine Corps. Four days after my high school graduation, I went straight to boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. I endured three months of hell, but graduated as a United States Marine.
During my service, I was deployed twice to Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, and Operation Enduring Freedom in 2004. I was honorably discharged as a corporal after four years of service. But my return to civilian life would prove to be difficult. Within months of being home, I began to experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This affected my personal relationships and several other facets of my life.
Trying to find out how to fix what was wrong with me, I stumbled upon neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). I found the subject interesting and decided to become an NLP practitioner. After two years of study, I graduated from the Center for Positive Change and Hypnosis in New York. NLP helped me greatly with my personal challenges, and so I wanted to help others with theirs. I started a life-coaching business, and helped a few clients, but it didn’t last long, thanks to my PTSD.
I was very angry and resentful at this time. I really hated how corrupt the system was, and it drove me into politics. Becoming an anti-war activist, I spent many years exposing the warmongers and corrupt traitors in our government. But after years of activism, I only made a small dent in the narrative, and the stress and anxiety trying to “wake” everyone up, only made my PTSD worse.
Still trying to heal myself, I stumbled upon the works of Marcus Aurelius, Alan Watts, and Lao Tzu. Their teachings led me down a spiritual path that changed my life. The combination of NLP, reading their work, and practicing meditation, led me to have a spiritual epiphany. This caused me to abandon my belief system and transcend identity politics completely. I decided to quit politics and get back what I originally wanted to do: writing, philosophy, and life coaching.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Geopolitics and Empire is joined by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Lucas Gage, whose recent commentary on the Ukraine War has gone viral on social media. |
| 0:11.3 | He's a philosopher and author. |
| 0:13.2 | His book is Thoughts and Reflections on Life, which you can find at LucasGage.com. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to G&E, Lucas. |
| 0:19.8 | How you know, my friend. |
| 0:21.7 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah, it's good to have you on. Again, your video was absolutely powerful, and you've got interesting experience being in the Marines, being in Iraq twice deployed, and maybe at a start, |
| 0:35.3 | you know, you said you were deployed to Iraq. You discovered how |
| 0:38.1 | corrupt and insane our governments are. And you became for a while an anti-war activist. Maybe if you |
| 0:44.4 | could tell us, you know, before getting to Ukraine a bit about your background. Yeah. So, you know, |
| 0:49.3 | I like every Marine, well, not every Marine, but I was in high school, when 9-11 took place. and I saw the planes get hit and everything. In fact, I live in New Jersey. So one of the, one of the, there's an area where I used to live in war in New Jersey where there was like this Washington monument, I think it was called Washington Road, where it's literally, you could see New York, like completely completely perfect so i remember you know i was i was |
| 1:12.1 | at the dentist i heard a plane at the towers i'm like wow that's bad accident that's what everyone |
| 1:16.1 | thought it was an accident so as i go up uh hear that another plane get hits i'm like there's something |
| 1:21.7 | wrong with this so i went i went and i'm away home i went i saw new york from the you know |
| 1:26.5 | the mountain top where I was, because |
| 1:28.3 | mountainside's another place. |
| 1:29.3 | And I look out there. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm like, look at all that smokes. Like I got to go check on my sister at school. So I drove the school because I was taking absence for that day. Like you're all right? She was, yeah, I'm fine. I'm okay. and watch the towers. |
| 1:42.3 | And I thought my head, I didn't know anything about engineering. |
| 1:45.3 | I was like, something's going to happen. |
| 1:46.3 | I feel like these are going to fall down then they did I was like oh my gosh so like that whole thing I'm like okay I was only 17 but I was like you know what my grandfather was in the air force my great grandfather was a marine it's in my blood I got to do something about this you know the terror attacks you |
| 2:01.2 | know what I mean so I went to the I went to the Marine Corps there was a what do you call |
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