Christopher Cody
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Dark Age America
- Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
- De: John Michael Greer
- Narrado por: Michael Dowd
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion. What is the world going to look like when all these changes have run their course? Author John Michael Greer seeks to answer this question, and with some degree of accuracy, since civilizations tend to collapse in remarkably similar ways.
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A projection in to a future with less
- De Philomath en 03-26-17
- Dark Age America
- Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
- De: John Michael Greer
- Narrado por: Michael Dowd
Smug, Dire, Iconizing, interesting
Revisado: 07-11-23
Forces of nature lift and swallow civilizations, unerringly, relentlessly, as described by this glass-near-empty-minded author, drawing on study and angst, watching clouds, and seeing sky-shards already swirling down at a rate uncertain.
He dismisses invention as any solution and ignores that invention spurted us to the place we now find ourselves.
He perpetuates the technologies he claims are our doom (I unsustainably paid for this book, with a touch, from a server farm and wirelessly received it, listened to it, and rared it... actions in ignorance of the futility of my reliance on those givens, but not in ignorance of his perpetuation of the systems he decries).
I'm not saying he's wrong. How can I? He schedules the collapse ranging from the time you finish this sentence to 500 years from now. In fact, I think he's probably got that right, but I think he's describing his ideology more than the science he claims to be utilizing. Instead, he uses alchemy, I think, to turn gold into lead.
He doesn't see obstacles as challenges to be overcome, but as inevitabilities to succumb to or, optimistically, to endure.
We definitely are in a tight spot, and if nothing is done (he says by at least 1980), we will likely hang 10 down the perpetual wave of inevitability, but if we want any chance at all, do NOT vote him to be our coach.
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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
- Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
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For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.
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Everyone dies except Americans
- De preetam en 06-22-22
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
- Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
Much adu about everything
Revisado: 07-09-23
Lots of information, a firehose really, narrated by Don Draper himself... (if listened to at 1.15 speed), paints an unavoidable vat of boiling distopia out of which is pulled a Krispy Kreme American donut... hot, but not as hot as the oil it just left behind.
He is unapologetically pro-Internationalism, which I, until the reading of this book, have conflated with Globalism, but I now discriminate between, where Internationalism is the altrustic specie of the two... and Globalism is its evil totalitarian twin... the later Peter completely ignores, apparently because of the vast rewards Internationalism has showered upon the golden age of human history.
I may be changing my behavior because of this book, short-term hording of some non-perishable commodities, taking trips sooner than later, upping my garden and husbandry game, but since his timeline is foggy, a thinning fog, I may have time to make better choices than I have in past scenarios when the sky was reported to have pieces of it already flaking off and whirlybirding down. I thank him (and his talented team) for that lead time.
It's a great listen... and a useful one... and may change your perspective on quite a few things.
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Viral
- The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
- De: Matt Ridley, Alina Chan
- Narrado por: Gavin Osborn
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in the city of Wuhan.
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A pivotal work in search of truth around the Covid19 virus in a world where facts got downgraded in favour of politics
- De Pal en 11-25-21
- Viral
- The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
- De: Matt Ridley, Alina Chan
- Narrado por: Gavin Osborn
Balanced, Detailed, Critical
Revisado: 07-06-23
The authors pull together and organize many of the most important events regarding the Covid 19
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The Crossing
- The Border Trilogy, Book Two
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
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In the late 1930s, 16-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat lightning - a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there".
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NOW WE MAY SPEAK OF MADNESS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-15-16
- The Crossing
- The Border Trilogy, Book Two
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
McCarthy + Poe.... emergent
Revisado: 11-09-22
McCarthy is an epic poet, masterful, verbally painting with short strokes that illicit tiny animating details. He's relentless with them, loading the story with mood and mystery and mysic that isn't there.
Poe is McCarthy's perfect medium. Richard can voice the scene with distinct characters that, by their hearing, allow us to intuit their own histories, ambitions, and apprehensions. Each character is distinct and alive.
The pairing of these two masters is like that of some fine vintage and veal. What emerges is something undescribable and beautiful.
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The Lords of Easy Money
- How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
- De: Christopher Leonard
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in 2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us.
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Pointless book
- De Darrin en 02-23-22
- The Lords of Easy Money
- How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
- De: Christopher Leonard
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
Clarity Cleaves Mysticism
Revisado: 10-13-22
Leonard lays out clearly the pre-Copernican understanding the U.S. Federal Reserve has of the monetary heavens as they think themselves the center of the universe. Leonard familiarizes us with the human struggles of both patient and papal practitioners who know if they push on that artery, the patient's eyes dullen, all the while not fathoming what consciousness actually is. Leonard makes the complex easily grasped. He helps lets us ride with him in the Fed's ATV while its drivers yell "Here, watch this, hold my Brunello!"
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Mythos
- De: Stephen Fry
- Narrado por: Stephen Fry
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breathes life into ancient tales, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire, and transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally resonant and deeply funny stories, without losing any of their original wonder. Learned notes from the author offer rich cultural context. This volume is a doorway into a captivating world.
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Please, will you tell me a story?
- De L. Kampp en 09-24-19
- Mythos
- De: Stephen Fry
- Narrado por: Stephen Fry
Dare I say perfect?
Revisado: 08-17-22
it is amazingly obvious that Mr. Fry deeply enjoys Greek mythology and is from a time and place where having learned those awfulgod stories and ancient Greek was the thing, because the research needed to accomplish this masterpiece had to have consumed (and fulfilled) a lifetime or so. His performance is as natural and sensitive and artful as can be delivered and has a thick substrate of pure loving humor. The bite-sized stories are fisheyed distortions of human failings (think seven lively sins) taken to extremes afforded only to gods and musicians. I found myself perking up whenever I realized Zeus was deciding to do his eagle-thing. Stephen was perfect for the telling of these stories as he embodies the column of knowledge, love, skill, and effort it takes to produce this weighty of a masterpiece.
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
- Duración: 27 h y 20 m
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
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Could be shorter
- De Evan Snow en 01-03-22
- The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
Must read
Revisado: 12-01-21
This is a deep dive into the work product and ethics of the one person who has arguably had the broadest negative effect on our civilization than anyone else in the last 50 years. This book is riddled with ad hominems and assertions of intent, and the narrator's delivery style, while likely the product of pointed consideration, is a taste to be acquired, those distractions cannot drown out the sheer mass of this accounting of history and the personalities that seek to master our world. If a fraction of this information is true (my thinking is that only a fraction may be incorrect), then we have been and are being manipulated by sociopathic psychpaths being enabled by an unelected power broker who has metastasized while being adored.
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The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- De: Mark Solms
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime's quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it arises in the brain. Venturing into the elementary physics of life, Solms has now arrived at an astonishing answer. In The Hidden Spring, he brings forward his discovery in accessible language and graspable analogies.
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Fascinating
- De Aston en 04-26-21
- The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- De: Mark Solms
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
Mind: Overt Matter
Revisado: 11-13-21
Feelings from "free" energy, the basis of consciousness. Well postulated and explained. My take is that it is correct, however the "hard" problem's nut isn't well cracked by the inferences given. Very very very close, about the closest I've heard. All in all, a life's work well spent. Tbis is an important piece of history.
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All the Pretty Horses
- The Border Trilogy, Book One
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico.
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Beautiful writing
- De LMS en 05-21-15
- All the Pretty Horses
- The Border Trilogy, Book One
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
Classic impressionistic gut wrench philosowestern
Revisado: 10-15-21
The essence of Cormac, splashing the atmosphere with kurt and perfect detail. He is a master of brief strokes of language that string end on end to place the reader (here one is the listener) in the mood and of the scene and story. The narrator is a virtuoso with voices, nailing each character, makiing the wbole experience rich and worth your while.
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Dear Reader
- The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
- De: Michael Malice
- Narrado por: Marcus Freeman
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality". Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, Dear Reader is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology.
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Great book
- De Rodney en 05-24-17
- Dear Reader
- The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
- De: Michael Malice
- Narrado por: Marcus Freeman
Really Unreal
Revisado: 10-12-21
A subtle blend of truth and self dilution from the perspective of a proper propogandist turned dictator. Using a dogmatic foundation, Malice gives us an old family recipe for atrocity a la mort, lets us understand (perhaps) the secret ingredients it takes to perpetuate authoritarianism. It is stratified with irony, inuendo, farce, and prismatic historical accounts of events and people that led our world to the hot mess it has become.
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