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We Are Not Saved

We Are Not Saved is a podcast covering Eschatology. While this concept has traditionally been a religious one, and concerned with the end of creation, in this podcast that study has been broadened to include secular ways the world could end (so called x-risks) and also deepened to cover the potential end of nations, cultures and civilizations. The title is taken from the book of Jeremiah, Chapter 8, verse 20: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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Now displaying: September, 2019
Sep 27, 2019

I have heard some people, even in the comments of my this podcast, claim that we shouldn't worry about the current level of political unrest because there's nowhere for the violence to start. That we don't see the sort of large scale violence we once saw in the past. I think they're wrong I think there will be bloodshed, and the question this episode looks to answer is where does it start?

Sep 21, 2019

I recently read American Carnage, the story of the development of the Republican Civil War and the events which led to the current political crisis. While reading it I was struck by a question, not why is this happening now, but rather why isn't it always this way?

I think I have the answer to that question and it involves nationalism, wars, immigration and most of all the sayings of the Pashtun. 

Sep 15, 2019

From the perspective of our system of government there are a lot of deviations currently going on. Many of them are being normalized. In the based we could correct deviations by means of amending the Constitution, but that no longer seems possible. Meaning we have largely decided to normalize them and hope that they're improvements, or at least not the kind of thing that is going to make the entire structure crash. As you might imagine I have my doubts that this is even possible.

Sep 4, 2019

This is the monthly episode where I review all the books I read over the past month. This time I'm mixing it up by doing very short reviews of some while doing longer reviews of the others. Here's a list of the books I mention:

  1. Extremes by Various
  2. The Lazy Dungeon Master by Michael Shea
  3. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
  4. The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
  5. Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master by Michael Shea
  6. Once Upon a Time in Russia by Ben Mezrich
  7. The Iliad by Homer
  8. Don't Sleep There are Snakes by Daniel Everett
  9. American Carnage by Tim Alberta
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