This is Monica Perez, here with a returning guest, a truly fantastic researcher and writer, really one of the best.

Very happy to have him on our team.

It is Ian Davis. Hi, Ian. How are you doing?

Hi, Monica. I'm very well. Thank you very much for inviting me. I have been just absolutely immersed in the articles you wrote titled The Dark MAGA GovCorp Technate. I mean i mean i could i just absolutely fell into a rabbit hole i had to

say they're super long so i had to stop like clicking through and reading it i mean i was like

wikipedying my head off and because it's a lot of stuff's in there and you just have to read it right

so it was really so interesting.

And it could easily be a book, which I mentioned to you. I was like, you should write a book.

So is that public knowledge? I have to edit that out.

No, I have completed a book, but it's just in the final stages now of tidying it up and hopefully getting it ready for publication soon.

So this, I don't want to summarize that there's so much to dig into, but the funny thing is I was a fan of the book Snow Crash by, is it Neil Stevenson? I think he also wrote Diamond Age.

I don't know if you're familiar with this. Cyberplice.

So I spoke to Alison McDowell, I think her name is, if I recall correctly, who's well known as

foreshadowing some of this stuff. Controversy surrounds her, but, um, but she mentioned that

Neil Stevenson was like, for sure in on, like, aware of the futurist, uh, expectations,

but Snowcrash. So being a hardcore, anarcho-capitalist, or I, I'm now a, I would say, a philosophical agorist.

Like, I would like to have free markets. I would like, you know, the ANCAP thing, either way you

slice it could be a stepping stone to world government, your way, or even just abandoning

nation states. But Snow Crash was these zones that were controlled by different corporations that acted as

the governments so when i saw your gov corp i was like oh my gosh uh that's exactly similar and i

didn't even realize it was dystopian until later and i was like oh oh, wait, that doesn't seem like a good situation

and it does seem like where we're headed. But I didn't know there was an actual blueprint

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