The Hey everybody it's James Lindsay and you are listening to the new discourses podcast and it's time for It's

James Lindsey and you are listening to the new Discourses podcast and it's time for a very exciting episode because we're going to talk about Soros.

It is long past time we talked about George Soros.

And so that's the topic today.

What I'm gonna do is I wanna lay out my best guess at how George Soros operates based on what I know, based on what I've observed,

and based on having read not quite all of, but a significant portion now of his most famous book is

1992 book The Alchemy of Finance which has the subtitle reading the Mind of

the Market which is a little bit pretentious.

And so this is going to be a fairly long episode as it tends to be because I want to do this

right, but I'm going to give you the punchline up front. I'm going to tell you a kind of off-the-cuff

summary of what I think George Soros's method is and then we're going to get into what his

goals look like and his character and lots of things to kind of put legs under that.

And we're going to conclude with where we start with a summary of what George Soros's methods are.

And I wrote my notes without this riff at the beginning,

so it's going to be, it's like I'm unfolding a mystery

throughout how I wrote these notes,

but I'm going to tell you the end of the story first.

And that might take away from the dramatic part, but I think it's going to make it a lot easier

to pay attention and follow and understand.

Plus, if you are short on time time you'll get the gist in the first

few minutes and here's what George Soros is about. George Soros believes that

history is made during chaotic times. He calls those periods of time historical periods. And so history is actually made during chaos. The reason history is made during chaos is

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