The Narrative Game Ep. 10: Into The Moral Vacuum We Go… - FULL EPISODE

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Grant Williams

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In a thought-provoking return for The Narrative Game, Dr. Ben Hunt and I engage in a candid conversation about the soul of America, exploring the unsettling trends eroding the nation’s moral compass. We dissect the alarming shift toward prioritizing power, efficiency, and leverage over traditional values like justice, liberty, and the common good and together we paint a picture of a society inching closer to totalitarianism, grappling with the rejection of the ideal that the U.S. should be a moral force on the world stage. Beyond the diagnosis, we offer potential paths forward in these challenging times, as our discussion delves into the importance of building strong, trusted communities and finding solace in religion and spirituality, even for those who may not consider themselves traditionally religious. We highlight the urgent need to combat the erosion of community and shared values, fostering integrity and purpose amidst the rising tide of polarization and cynicism. This episode is a call to action, urging listeners to seek deeper connections and moral guidance to navigate the turbulent waters ahead. Every episode of the Grant Williams podcast, including This Week In Doom, The End Game, The Super Terrific Happy Hour, The Narrative Game, Kaos Theory and Shifts Happen, is available to Copper, Silver and Gold Tier subscribers at my website www.Grant-Williams.com. Copper Tier subscribers get access to all podcasts, while members of the Silver Tier get both the podcasts and my monthly newsletter, Things That Make You Go Hmmm… Gold Tier subscribers have access to my new series of in-depth video conversations, About Time.

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0:00.0	Before we get going, here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed should be considered as investment advice.
0:06.1	This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.
0:10.2	So, while we hope you find it both informative and entertaining, please do your own research or speak to a financial advisor
0:16.8	before putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets.
0:20.4	And now, on with the show.
0:35.8	Welcome, everybody, to a long overdue episode of The Narrative Game with my co-host, the
0:42.7	great, the good Ben Hunt. Ben, I have missed you, my friend. It's been a long, long time, way
0:47.2	too long, and we've both been so busy. We have, and the feeling is very mutual. It's been too
0:51.3	long and missed you very much, Grant. Now, I normally have a pretty good
0:54.7	idea where I want to start with these conversations, but, you know, at the moment, I'm increasingly
0:59.7	baffled and bewildered. I mean, I'm not, because I get it, right, but the speed with which
1:04.4	things are happening and the, frankly, the ease with which people are being herded into all the places that you've been warning for
1:12.2	many, many years that they're going to be herded is astonishing to me. And I guess the place
1:16.4	I want to start with this is this unbelievable note you published yesterday. We're recording
1:20.2	this on, well, for me, I'm a day ahead of you on Thursday to 20th. For you, it's the 19th.
1:24.9	It'll never be me. I read that piece. It was literally the first thing I read
1:28.8	when I woke up yesterday morning. And to me, it was characteristically beautifully written,
1:34.5	but it was really, really important. And I wanted to talk to you about it. And I wanted to talk
1:39.4	to you about the reaction that you've seen and that I've seen from it, because I think that is
1:43.2	telling too. But for anyone that hasn't read from it because I think that is telling too.
1:44.8	But for anyone that hasn't read it, and I'll put all kinds of links in the transcripts so they do,
1:49.4	just walk us through, A, what made you write that piece, and then walk us through the thrust of it so we can talk about it.
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