REBUILD SOCIAL TRUST

“And the challenge that Americans have right now is that it's not possible to solve this problem by voting it away. The most effective thing you can do is take back financial sovereignty and actually as an individual, be your own bank.”

“Intra-elite conflict manifests as counter elites knocking established elites off of their throne and taking control. And the way they typically do this is they can't do it alone. So they have to enlist people who aren't elites, the broader population, to support their cause.”

“When we start to question the integrity of elections as such, what that suggests to me is that the social trust of the social fabric is falling apart. And that's an issue that can't be solved from the top down. It can only be solved from the bottom up.”

“The most important thing anyone can do is exercise their individual rights. It is through the exercise of rights that they become entrenched and presupposed. What we want is a state where people don't have to think about their rights because they're just exercising them all the time. The right to transact—these are all enshrined in our Constitution in ways that are historically unique and unprecedented.”

“Banks, they were in a position to issue credit. Who's, you know, the biggest customer for bank credit? Governments. And what do they use bank credit for? Largely to wage war, which in turn, the banks profit off of. And so what we've seen over the last few hundred years is this kind of social ratchet effect.”

“I think we're living through a collective national identity crisis. Who are we? First of all, who have we become as a country? Second of all, where are we going to go from here? I think we have a lot of questions now about the efficacy of democratic institutions, even something as simple as elections to meaningfully change the direction in which the country is going.”

“There's nothing in our Constitution that requires identification, that requires being visible at all times. And so just remembering that privacy is your sacred prerogative and living from that. I think that's a huge thing.”

“There's been a financialization of everything, and an erosion of local communities and local power that together have created this precarious dystopia. In this push to automation, in this frenzy around AI and other automation technologies, there has been almost a total collapse of care and it's care that knits a society together.”