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PREVIEW: Brokenomics | Morgoth's genius and Origins of Civilisation

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Dan had some random thoughts over the weekend and decided to share them.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Broinomics.

0:24.4

Now, in this episode, I wanted to take you through a couple of things.

0:31.7

And actually, explain that I've kind of unlocked new ability,

0:36.8

a way to look at the world, which I think is actually going to be really quite handy now that I've got this new mental model.

0:42.8

And the next episode that I'm going to do, probably next week, is going to be, you know, how does the British political system actually work?

0:50.3

Because if you advert the frame, if you ask what questions are saying to ask, how does the system genuinely operate at a permission-based level?

1:01.0

Well, you see something quite different.

1:03.0

And I don't think that the British, well, I say the British political system, and basically any Western political system at this point. It's not a democracy.

1:12.0

It's a credentialed waiting compliance system. And the electorate are basically choosing managers

1:17.4

to administer constraints that they did not themselves choose. And by that I mean either the

1:22.9

electorate or the or the managers. So you've got to stop analyzing politics as preference segregation.

1:30.4

You've got to analyze it through a series of permission boundaries. And if you do that,

1:35.4

you then ask, okay, well, what actions are structurally impossible regardless of mandate?

1:40.4

Right. And that is where power actually lies. And I haven't finished thinking this through, but ultimately it's not going to put political parties at the top of the list.

1:51.0

It's probably going to put, I don't know, Bank of England or the Treasury at the top of the list.

1:55.8

No, what I actually wanted to talk about is how did I unlock that ability and where did I go with it first? And the answer

2:02.7

is Islander Magazine. Now, this is not going to be one of those standard pitches because for all

2:08.4

I know it's probably sold out by the time you get to watch this. This comes out on Tuesday,

2:13.4

doesn't it? So it may well have sold out by then. But no, what it actually is is a bit of a

2:21.3

homage to the genius Morgoth who wrote this article here. Hopefully you haven't all got 4K

2:28.6

screens at home and you now don't need to buy the magazine. Well, I suppose there's only one

2:32.6

page of it. But no, this is a genuinely brilliant article.

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