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- Welcome back to the Aaron Day Show. This is season two, episode fifty one. Hold on one sec. Let me. get the slides going. There's a lot of information in tonight's episode. In fact, I'm not even sure how much of it we're going to get through. The big thing that we're going to be doing is I made major improvements to the ownnothing.org site. And if anybody can just let me know how the audio is, I think I at least have the right microphone set up here today. In any event, the theme, the overall theme, which I've talked about before, is that America one point O is over. And I'm going to walk through why I say that and what it means. And the whole point of the Oh Nothing site, this originally came out of an article that I wrote. where I was talking about tokenization, but I was looking at the fact that people sign these click wrap agreements. you know, for everything, for Apple, for iTunes, for your cell phone, for your stock brokerage agreement. And when I looked into these things, which actually I was already aware of because my company, my last company actually had a click wrap agreement. And so I know what the deal is. The deal is, you know, you put forty, fifty, a hundred pages into a contract. Nobody reads it and people give their rights away and they just scroll and click. So the original idea behind Oh Nothing was to put together a website that allowed you to put links in for the contracts and to be able to analyze quickly with a scoring system what they mean. And then what I found the more that I studied it is that contracts are only a small portion of how we own nothing. And the owning nothing actually starts with our attention being hijacked. which I'm going to show you tonight, which I've integrated into the site. There's our attention. Then there's what the government does to us without contracts. Then a couple of episodes, we actually wrote a book on here using Mike Adams' engine about the Panopticon in schools and how kids are being tracked. Again, no contract signed. So I've completely redone the site to include... Not just contracts. And in fact, I realize we don't need to go into the detail of everybody logging individual contracts because it turns out the contracts are all basically the same by industry. So once you get the industry pattern, you have industry lobbyists that push for laws. Then the laws are standardized. Once you understand the pattern, you don't need to see all the contracts. They're all the same. You can basically go through and do a quick assessment and say, oh, yeah, I have something of this type. And now you know what rights have been given up. So I have materially expanded the site in a way that the goal is to wake people up and to let them know the song that I just played that I put together last night. The whole point behind the song is that we have nothing left to lose. We've already given up our rights. The only question is, do you know that you've given up your rights? So then the answer to that is what are we going to do about it? And this is developing parallel systems. This is everything that we're doing with FreedomForge and everything that we're doing with Privacy Coins and Above Phone and OSARA and all these different projects that we have to build parallel systems. But people don't realize they need parallel systems. People are not awake. So the Oh Nothing site is now the site that is designed to wake people up. And it's still beta. It was in alpha. Now it's in beta. All of these sites, all six of them that you can link to from daylightfreedom.org will be fully ready and fully integrated by the end of January. But it's moving in pieces, which you'll note as you follow this podcast from week to week. But it will all get done and it will all make sense. So tonight I'm going to show you quite a bit of interesting material on Oh Nothing. And again, always looking for feedback. on these things. But I want to make that point that America one point O is over and then people get upset and they say, oh, you know, well, if you don't like it here, you know, move to Somalia or whatever it happens to be. But that's comes from a place of not understanding exactly how far we've fallen. So we're going to go through that tonight. But before we do that, we'll kind of recap the last couple of episodes and The last episode was an exciting one on the solutions front where I talked about confidential layer. And if you listen to the second song that I played tonight, it was a music video that I didn't have time to play until the very, very end of the podcast. So if you were all four hours in, you got to see it last time. Confidential layer is a phenomenal technology because it allows you to take Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solano, all of these other blockchains that combine have over two trillion dollars worth of purchasing power, of market capitalization. And then on top of that, the tokens created on those platforms like Ethereum and Solana, which may even be more than two trillion dollars, those will be able to be made private through confidential layer as well. So we're basically tokenizing... Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and then the tokens that are created on those things. So this is really a privacy layer solution. This is a solution that takes these transparent systems, which turns out to be a real problem for people in terms of surveillance, not only by the government, but as I discussed last week, wrench attacks, people being kidnapped and threatened with physical violence if they don't give up their keys. So confidential layers is huge. And as I said, I'm going to do more about confidential layer over the next month or so really around reorganizing how to create online materials to help people to help on board people and i realize we've got to really think about that from the ground up and that there are people that are coming into this at different levels beginner intermediate advanced some people want written materials some people want you know maybe a full course that explains well what are these things not just download a wallet the question is well what is a wallet right so um i've spent a lot of time kind of designing that and this is going to be through freedom forge but I encourage you to take a look at that episode because it's important and it's important for everyone that you know that thinks Bitcoin is private needs to understand that it's not and needs to understand the implications of that from a physical perspective and from a tracking and confiscation perspective. And so I'll play this very short video about confidential layer, fifty seconds. We have achieved something unprecedented, a unified ideology. a world built on the pure incorruptible foundation of bitcoin the money of the future it is destiny one cause one resolve the bitcoin standard those who resist who cling to shadow systems and contradictory truths shall be silenced by the unstoppable engine of adoption the bitcoin standard is perfect it is the future we will prevail july twenty twenty five confidential layer went live allowing bitcoin and ethereum users to bridge their coins onto a completely private by default protocol giving power back to the people whether traditional finance likes it or not bitcoin is now private So I thought that was a great nod to to nineteen eighty four. And actually, before I get into this, I probably might not be able to see this very well. But there were protests this weekend in the UK about digital idea. David, I like a whole bunch of other people that mass protests in the UK against digital ID. And, you know, and I wrote a post about this. You know, we see a lot of people here saying laughing at the people in the UK about how bad their situation is, not realizing that. What they're proposing in the UK doesn't go into effect until twenty twenty nine. There are people laughing and mocking people in the UK that already have real ID. which is a digital ID. And in fact, the plan is for real ID to be completely digital in all fifty states by twenty twenty seven. Where are protests? This is the thing that I keep talking about week after week, which is the problem that we have with this last election is that, you know, the election was technocracy with resistance versus technocracy without resistance. And we pick technocracy without resistance because in essence, We're allowing technology to accelerate, whether it's through Palantir or backdoor CBDCs with the Genius Act or Real ID. And no one's protesting. We have no protests like this. What are we protesting anywhere? I mean, do people actually think the state of affairs is a good one right now in this country? I mean, the amount of apathy that we have here. is pretty shocking. So I'm going to show you... Well, I'm not even going to go through the sites just in the interest of time. But we launched the early beta of OSARA a couple weeks ago, a week and a half ago. It's going live on January the first. A lot of people say, well, how can I... get FreedomDollar, how can I get Zaino? One way to do it is to participate in our bounty program. We're offering up to a thousand dollars total in FreedomDollar for people to actually report bugs, suggest features, so on and so forth. And I'm going to be doing this with the other projects as well. I mean, I actually have to get to the point where I can reliably put them out and be able to track bugs and that kind of thing. So some of them are even in a little more earlier state than that. But But you can earn Freedom Dollar right now at osr.com. And there's going to be quite a bit of upgrades to that site before it goes live on January the first. And this medical tourism marketplace is just the start. You've probably noticed they failed again in the Congress to fix the health care issue that came about that was a big part of the government shutdown. They still haven't fixed it. And the Republicans didn't pass their social credit, expand HSA thing and everything else. But more and more, I'm seeing posts. People are just saying they're fed up. They're going to cancel their insurance. They're not getting anything out of it. They have these high deductible plans. It doesn't protect them from bankruptcy. So a big part of the push of OSR next year is to get people to form medical trusts to protect their assets so that you don't go into bankruptcy, even with insurance, which, by the way, one person every minute in this country files for bankruptcy due to medical bills. Seventy-five percent of those are insured. Your insurance doesn't protect you from catastrophic loss. We have all these statements that people make about insurance. People get locked into these patterns. Well, it's there for catastrophic coverage. It doesn't cover you for that. Doesn't work for that. Failed. Objectively failed. And then you see people talk about, well, freedom with HSAs. HSAs aren't freedom. It's the IRS telling you what percentage of your money you can spend only on things that the healthcare system deems to be healthcare, which, by the way, aren't things that can actually improve your health. Can't spend any of it on food or peptides or anything that might actually improve your health. You can only use it to buy medication that keeps you sick. Those aren't solutions. No one is offering... a solution. Republicans and Democrats offer nothing to address the root causes of the healthcare crisis that we have through our system. Quick update on Technocracy Atlas. I've indexed a lot of additional materials. There are going to be hundreds of books and audio clips that are going up there. And then one thing that I've done from a technical perspective is I'm adding the ability for you to be able to search and not only pull up text, but you're going to be able to pull up images. And in select cases, starting with the AaronDayShow.com, you're going to be able to search videos and actually pull up the clip. But it's not even just like searching the text. You're going to be able to go in and I'm using this new engine. You're going to be able to say, hey, which episodes was Aaron wearing red glasses? And it actually scans and indexes the information, not just on the transcript, but what's in there visually. So you'll be able to search the slides and everything else. it's estimated you know that friday is the day the new epstein files are coming out so i have all of the epstein files that exist so far on there so everything that the ag previously uh released everything that the house released including the nine pictures and so forth so the technocracy atlas is going to get a big boost not only in terms of the amount of information but your ability to search images text and video so i'm very excited about that and i'm going to be bringing that to all of our sites and in fact i'll get a second camera so i can show you the setup at some point here but i'm spending a lot of time now i keep my computers running and they're always doing work. And so when I'm not working on them, when I'm not coding them, and I'm not doing podcasts, the CPUs and the GPUs are pretty much maxed out, taking information, scraping information, indexing information, so that we have primary source material for all of the various initiatives that we're working on. And so that's going to benefit all of the different sites that we're working on. So stay tuned on Technocracy Atlas. May do a bounty program on that as well because the Technocracy Atlas is also in the beta phase. The biggest challenges that we have with that is, one, all right, you have all this information. People don't even know where to start. They don't even know what questions to ask. So I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the interface, how to let people know even where to begin, what to search for. But then the more important thing is we want to empower people to be able to start doing some crowdsourced investigative research through this tool. That was always the original vision. So exciting things coming with Technocracy Atlas. I always encourage you to go to TheAaronDayShow.com to watch the episodes and to start moving over there. And as I said, the chatbot is going to be able to, you're going to be able to search videos. You're going to be able to search memes. You're going to be able to search all of the various content right there. And I have backed up all of the content. Every single one of the Aaron Day Show episodes is now on IPFS. which means it's truly censorship resistant i haven't changed the interface yet so you're still you know primarily viewing uh youtube videos but all of the videos have been backed up with ipfs so if i get kicked off of youtube um you're still going to be able to see all of the historical content and and you know we'll still be able to to publish and keep the show going So I'm moving towards that approach. And there are a lot of other features I'm going to be integrating and releasing. These music videos are going to be part of it. And we're adding more songs and more content and a lot more interactivity. So I encourage you to start looking at theerrandayshow.com. As we've talked about, in fact, we'll see if we create yet another book in the chat this week. But Mike Adams has continued... to ramp up books.brightu.ai. He's up to like six hundred and fifty books now or maybe even more than that. And he just sent me a message this morning. They're going to start translating these books into Spanish and they're going to start making the books available kind of in podcast form as well. So this is going to continue to grow. So this is really democratizing information. One of the things I'm going to do is with select podcasts, where there's enough content to warrant it, I'm actually going to create books related to each one of these episodes that if people want more in-depth information, there will be a book there as well. My plan is to have Mike on before the end of the year, which I've got to figure out how to schedule soon so that we can talk about the developments in AI. And I'd love to actually just show you guys what I'm doing, how I'm doing it. I show you what I'm doing. But just to share the knowledge on that and to help empower people. Because these tools are absolutely incredible, which you'll see just when we go through Technocracy Atlas. The stuff that I've been able to add just since we did... Excuse me, from OhNothing.org. What I've been able to add to that site in a relatively short period of time. So getting into... tonight's topic. So I'm going to show you something uncomfortable. And I want to be clear. I'm not trying to demoralize people. I'm not trying to make you feel helpless. But I'm here because you can't fix what you can't see. And right now, Americans are walking around with blindfolds they didn't know they put on. This is the big issue with this is people are just not aware. We have swallowed a lot of propaganda and we don't realize it. So the show Newsroom, which was an Aaron Sorkin show, and I know he wrote The West Wing and everything else. He's a big liberal, although I wish we had somebody on our side with the screenwriting ability. There was an episode of Newsroom where a college student asked the question, what makes America the greatest country in the world? And by the way, I'm going to play this clip shortly. And the character played by Jeff Daniels says he loses it. He rattles off statistic after statistic. We're seventh in literacy, twenty seventh in math, twenty second in science, forty ninth in life expectancy, so on and so forth. Rattles off these numbers and again says, you know, we're not we're not the best country, you know, and I'll play the clip. I don't want to spoil the delivery because the delivery was was excellent. But but here's what we do lead the world in the number of incarcerated citizens per capita per the number of adults who believe in angels are real defense and defense spending. And we spend more than the next twenty six countries combined on defense spending, twenty five of whom are allies. So these are just facts. So this isn't so when you hear people say we're the greatest country in the world, it's it's literally not based on anything. And I think a lot of people are living in a an old universe, like they're kind of in a post World War II haze, or maybe even going back to the eighties, but the world has passed us by. And so that clip I'm gonna show you is from, and the rant felt like a wake up call. It was very controversial at the time. It went viral, people shared it everywhere. It was supposed to be a moment where maybe we snapped out of it. And unfortunately instead people hit the snooze button and rolled over. Because if you look at the numbers, the health outcomes have gotten worse. In fact, in almost every one of the metrics he talks about in twenty twelve, it's gotten worse. And including trust in institutions themselves, only twenty percent trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. This isn't cynicism. It's it's the collapse of of the integrity of the system itself. In fact, I don't even know if it's twenty percent. I mean, if you look at Congress's single So when we sit here and we still try to claim and people get all defensive about being the best country in the world, well, if everybody doesn't believe in these institutions and they don't believe in Congress and then all the objective data is here, then we're not facing reality. So we measure everything else. Our credit score tells banks how obedient we are with debt. Our social media metrics tell advertisers how valuable our attention is. Our medical records tell insurance companies how much risk we represent, but nobody's measuring how free you are. Nobody's asking how captured is your life by systems you didn't choose and don't control. That's what ownnothing.org does. It looks at six, actually, I think I expanded it to seven and it may change further, dimensions where your sovereignty has been quietly surrendered often without realizing it was happening. your attention your money your health decisions your contract rights your privacy from surveillance your ownership actual ownership of the things that you own most americans when they look at these areas discover something disturbing they've already surrendered most of their sovereignty not through some dramatic moment of defeat not through signing away their rights in some obvious contract but through thousands of tiny concessions month after month, year after year, through convenience, through defaults they never questioned, through terms of service they never read. So America One Point O is over. It's not a political statement. It's not Doomer talk. It's just reality. The systems that existed, the implicit deal between citizens and institutions, that's done. It's been done. The window is closing, it hasn't closed yet, but what we do in the next twelve to twenty-four months determines what comes next, whether you're a sovereign individual or inventory in someone else's system. And I, you know, Hakeem was on, and the more and more research that I do, and there are actually some metrics on Technocracy Atlas that measure where we are with CBDC's digital ID and surveillance, I think we have next year where if we don't have people using parallel systems, if we haven't built parallel systems that can scale, we're toast. I think next year is the year. This is why I'm working fourteen, sixteen hours a day. In fact, I'm exhausted right now. I'm going back down to Florida. I've got to get some sun. But I am working feverishly for this end of January because I feel like if I don't have the tools that I've been talking about ready, where at least there's the beginnings of a parallel system for healthcare and then we have you know i need to to come up with some better ways to onboard people to xeno and and freedom dollar and everything else unless you know this isn't so these aren't my projects but but but i have been all over the united states and i have been my wife and i've been around twenty seven states uh three or four different countries now for the last couple of years talking about this and and We need to make scalable solutions to onboard people and the materials and things that I put together so far. are not good enough because a lot of the people that we're onboarding have no previous experience with this stuff. And so we have to figure out a way. And me going and doing a hundred people, two hundred people at a time in a workshop isn't going to cut it. I can't do that next year. I mean, if I do one workshop, it's got to be for people that already know how it works because they've been onboarded with the tools. And now we're doing more important things like trying to make connections so that people can start collaborating together on parallel solutions. It's not going to make sense to do that level of onboarding those those days are over so today we're going to walk through the six dimensions and we're going to look at how the capture happened and more importantly we're going to talk about what to do about it the song that i played at the beginning it's good it will be a music video i actually had problems getting that done but i actually created an entire own nothing soundtrack that i'm pretty happy about so i'm gonna end up releasing all of those songs not all of them are music videos the music videos take they actually cost a lot of money to produce because i'm using A bunch of different video models and everything else. And so I'll do a new music video every episode, but I could do more. But I want to get feedback on which songs people like the most. So to kind of set a bar for what goes from... you know a song to warranting a music video that we put in the show so let's start with the newsroom clip and then we can uh we can go from there i think this is a great way to set the stage for this idea that america one point oh is over let's move on to the next question go ahead hi my name is jenny i'm a sophomore and this is for all three of you can you say in one sentence or less what Um, you know what I mean. Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world? Diversity and opportunity. Lewis? Uh, freedom and freedom. So let's keep it that way. Will? The New York Jets. No, I'm gonna hold you to an answer on that. What makes America the greatest country in the world? Well, Lewis and Sharon said it, diversity and opportunity and freedom and freedom. I'm not letting you go back to the airport without answering the question. Well, our Constitution is a masterpiece. James Madison was a genius. The Declaration of Independence is, for me, the single greatest piece of American writing. You don't look satisfied. One's a set of laws and the other's a declaration of war. I want a human moment from you. What about the people? Why is America... Not the greatest country in the world, Professor. That's my answer. You're saying... Yes. Let's talk about... Fine. Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck, but he gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money. It costs votes. It costs airtime and column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so goddamn always? Hey. And with a straight face, you're going to tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. So, two hundred and seven sovereign states in the world, like a hundred and eighty of them have freedom. All right. And yeah, you, uh, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there's some things you should know. And one of them is... There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, a hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories. Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of a twenty-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are, without a doubt, a member of the worst period, generation, period, ever, period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Yosemite? Sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed. We cared about our neighbors. We put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars. Acted like men. We aspired to intelligence. We didn't belittle it. It didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election. And we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men. Men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. Enough? So I think that pretty much brilliantly summarizes the sentiment. And, you know, that was thirteen years ago. Right. Everything has gotten worse from them. But the last statement that you said you've got, you have to. We're not the greatest country in the world. And unless you recognize that, you're not going to be able to make any improvements or make any changes. And I think we are in a state of complete and total delusion right now. And the more you dig into it and the more you research it, I mean, I have talked a lot about China and everything else. People need to get out more and see what's going on in the world. We have watched the world pass us by. So that's it. I'm going to walk through the fact that from an objective perspective, All of the things that he was talking about, the metrics have actually gotten much, much worse. So we are currently ranked forty ninth in life expectancy. And based on the projections right now, by twenty fifty, we're likely to be sixty sixth. We've actually had declining life expectancy even before covid. So this, despite the fact that we spend four trillion dollars a year on health care, more per capita than anywhere in the world. Objectively we're not getting better results for this. And literally babies are dying. We have the highest infant mortality of any high income country on earth. Our infant mortality rate is five point three four per one thousand, which is ranked thirty third. Japan and Norway, by comparison, are one point seven per thousand. So. What are we doing with. all of the spending. And again, this is part of the motivation. Well, as I've discussed, I have a long history with the medical system and I've spent a lot of time researching the origins of public health, working directly within insurance, working with corporations, working with hospitals. So from direct experience, I've learned that as I say many times, if you started from scratch, there isn't a single person listening to this podcast that couldn't come up with a better system than what we have. It's not a matter of an HSA or an insurance plan or whether or not there's an Affordable Care Act. The system is structurally broken from the way doctors are trained and educated, certified, the way the financial incentives are structured, the regulation and the regulatory capture, with the FDA and other entities, it's not fixable and it shouldn't be complied with, which of course is always a thing that I talk about. But we spend seventeen point eight percent of our GDP on health care. And so, I mean, it's become a wealth extraction tool. with no benefit whatsoever you know it's not like well yeah i'd be willing to pay seventeen point nine percent if i could live forever if i were living a healthier happier life americans aren't not only are we not living longer the lives that we are living we're living less healthy We are at historic lows in terms of our scores on testing. You know, like math, we're ranked, I think, well, there's something called a PISA score. We're ranked twenty eighth. We've been dropping in this area. Singapore beats us by one hundred and ten points. Reading and science are better, but not. not in any way that's materially useful or worth talking about um we're seventh in reading tenth in science kids aren't educated i mean they're at this point they're warehoused and i you know we could talk at length about the public education system was never designed to educate people the public education system was designed to create worker bees And Rockefeller heavily influenced this by stepping in when public schools had no pension funds, and he actually funded teacher pensions in exchange for essentially taking over control of the curriculum. And what Rockefeller wanted is he wanted workers, and his fellow industrialists wanted worker bees that worked shifts. So by having public school overlap with prime working hours, you would have kids in an environment where... They were essentially offered daycare while also being trained to be worker bees, trained to follow bells, trained to be indoctrinated on certain types of information, not to think critically. Rockefeller and Carnegie didn't want competitors. They wanted workers. And that is... is how the system was designed and that actually wasn't the founding of public education you can go back even before that and and dig into the history there one of my favorite books is the uh nea trojan horse in american education which provides a good history um gato has written a series of books that are phenomenal in terms of of talking about the history of education so So it's unfixable. It's not bad just because we're not competing. It's bad because the intention of it was never focused on human potential, never focused on actually teaching people how to think. It was teaching people what to think always about indoctrination. Curriculum taken initially from the Prussians, very much heavily influenced by... socialism, actually, from the beginning. The other one is free speech. This is the funny one. Obviously, I'm not going to do a rant yet, maybe later, on Musk and the whole freedom of speech, freedom of reach thing. But you would think, based on what he's saying, is that he saved free speech in America, and then the implication is that America is the free speech capital of the world. Neither of those things are true. We are ranked... I'm actually trying to get this specific. We fell out of the top twenty. We're not even in the top twenty for free speech. In fact, I'm seeing here reporters without borders dropped us from satisfactory to number fifty-five, problematic. We're now ranked with Gambia, Uruguay, Sierra Leone for speech. So when you think that, well, we have the First Amendment, what does that mean? We're ranked fifty fifth. And how many of you realized we're ranked fifty fifth? I mean, you probably thought, well, if we're not first, then we must be second or third or at least in the top ten. We're not even and we haven't been. So we we we have swallowed the propaganda about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as if these things are actually real and are active, which they aren't. They haven't been for a long time. I mean, this isn't a lot of people just woke up during COVID. This didn't start with COVID. This just caused some people to wake up in some ways. They actually generally have not woken up to Understanding what's actually going on. They actually think that the COVID thing was a fluke. They don't even realize, you know, here we are, fifty fifth in this category and low in all of these other categories. Happiness. We are ranked twenty fourth, a record low. Our all time high, ironically, was in twenty twelve when that newsroom clip aired. So, you know, Finland has been number one for eight straight years. So again, I could go through metric after metric because I'm not just cherry picking these. You actually have to go out and find what we are number one at. So we are number one at incarceration rate. I guess there's some good news there. I guess we've improved. We're number fifth in incarceration rates. We can take that one off the table. We have one point eight million people behind bars, but we are still number one in defense. That is our thing. That is our one thing that we lead the world in is defense. So you can make up your own mind as to whether we're a force for good. That would be a good debate. I wish Christopher Hitchens were around, although he might take the different position on this. You know, whether or not we're a force of good, but that is the only thing that we lead in. And there's this perception that we lead in innovation, that we lead in entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley and so on and so forth. And again, So Mike Adams actually introduced me. I wasn't aware of how bad it was. I mean, I knew we weren't what we thought we were, but even in this category from two thousand to two, three to two thousand and seven. We led China in sixty out of sixty four technology categories. Now, the latest time window, China leads in fifty seven categories. And they are not the categories that you would expect. These are not like minor, like niche categories. These are categories like quantum computing, five G drones, electric vehicles, batteries, solar, semiconductors, space. Think about it. We were not exposed. We only hear about what goes on here. We don't even know what goes on there. So when you do dig into this, you realize, wow, something's happened here. And just in the last fifteen, twenty years, and we don't even realize it, I've said many times. Musk ripped off WeChat. He bought Twitter to basically replicate WeChat, which is the Chinese everything app tied into their social credit systems. The more I've dug into it, he's ripped off more things from China. So the narrative used to be China's a bunch of dirt, you know, poor farmers and they're starving and you better finish all the food on your plate because people are starving and don't even have enough rice to eat. And then it was we China was stealing all our intellectual property. Now it's just we're getting crushed. in every major category. And I will tell you this, they will catch us in AI. That is one of the ones that they're not ahead in. That's not one of the fifty seven. It will be. They're closing the gap. They're about ninety days away. And the truth is that when people talk about AGI and everything else, they have an infrastructure, energy infrastructure that is far superior to ours. Unless some of these really amazing technologies that, you know, others have come on and talked about that are that are supposed to happen, that have been promised and discussed things involving plasma and so on and so forth. And that may happen. And, you know, hopefully. Hopefully it does. But even in that area, I just saw it this morning, China's ahead in that. But if things don't materially change, we haven't improved our energy grid at all. It's deteriorated. And so all of these data centers, China doesn't have an issue of having to ration electricity or having to build more infrastructure anymore. for electricity. So, so again, the number of Americans, you know, ask yourself, did you know that unless you heard it here, had you heard that China's had, had, had, had, had, had, had, had, are aware of this. So, I mean, this didn't happen overnight. And, you know, I think I've argued, and by the way, it's my most viral tweet ever. And I actually have repeated a couple of times in different ways is that Americans are the most brainwashed people on earth. That's very popular. I didn't write it just to go viral, but apparently it struck a nerve. Even in North Korea, North Koreans know they're being lied to. We're still in a state of complete disbelief. I mean, I almost wonder at some point, I mean, does Trump even know? But he's acting as if he's serving Reagan's third term and we're still in the nineteen eighties. Even the posturing with tariffs. China doesn't need us. We're not a huge percentage of what they need. He's got this this view that we are the dominant player and indispensable. when he's put these tariffs on some of these technology areas the reaction has been china has just outdeveloped and they've created better technology so it's completely backfired just as as you would have expected so So anyway, National Ranking Show America is not number one. But what I wanted to do with OhNothing.org was figure out how are you captured individually? so um and by the way as i said it's expanded from six to seven this is why and it's going to be a living thing right i'm not uh i'm looking for input on this but i've spent a lot of time and a lot of it's because of these podcasts and talking to people and getting some different perspectives on this and so there are some areas on the site that i know for instance like government surveillance we know what edward snowden told us and people don't think about that but there's you know our constitutional rights are being violated all the time and now we have palantir and everything else so i'm going to be putting together some information that just just says and then i'll probably put together some short videos to show this is how you're being tracked across all these dimensions today I posted something today where it's like somebody said, oh, yeah, I'm concerned about privacy. I use ProtonMail. And then it's like this collage of drones and all of the different ways that the government is tracking us, independent of contracts, independent of what we sign up for voluntarily. As I wrote in my book, there are more surveillance cameras per capita in the United States than China. Every time I hear a politician say, we don't want to become like communist China. We want to protect financial privacy and everything else. It's already, it's as bad or worse here. And some people like to say China's the model. But, you know, we're actually leading the way in many of the surveillance technologies. We're not necessarily duplicating them. We're leading the way. It's kind of a joint effort. And you remember during COVID when They were very aggressive with lockdowns and, you know, they were forcing people to stay in their homes and then they would have you'd see these pictures of of of people wearing, you know, complete. Coverings, you know, spraying the area, and then you would have people like Gavin Newsom and you have other leaders from the West. Cheering on the authoritarianism and the control. that China has. I mean, the only thing that's stopping the U.S. from doing that is incompetence. It's not intent. It's like I like to say with... Social credit systems, people are like, oh, we don't want to have a social credit system, but we do. It's the tax code. Seventy-five thousand pages, sixteen million words. And what do those words say? Those words are penalties and incentives, encouraging you to do one thing or another. Buy a house, do this, save for college, right? We're going to give you a better deal if you save for college. You can put this in HSAs, but if you don't do this, you're going to get penalized. That's a social credit system. That is penalties and incentives. The difference is we don't have an app, but we've got seventy five thousand pages, which is better. Is it better to have an app or you know how you're being tracked and what the penalties incentives are or to have a situation where no one can possibly understand what the rules are? And if you get it wrong, you go to prison. I'd argue what we have is worse. The only thing that stopped us is technical incompetence. But now that we have Peter Thiel and we have David Sachs and we have Elon Musk, well, they're going to be able to bring that. And so everyone out there cheering on efficiency and AI and government understand that just the application of AI to enforcing the tax code is a worse social credit system than even China could come up with. So as I thought about this, you know, again, six, seven dimensions, I realized that there's something that even supersedes Your contractual rights. What have you given away in terms of your data or your privacy or your economic ownership in something or your voting rights or whatever that happens to be? No, it's your attention. Who's captured your mind? And I'll go through. And one of the things that I've done with the oh nothing side is I want to. A lot of the content I'm going to deliver here in a short form during the podcast, I've encapsulated in visual form on the site so people can have a quick way of going through and understanding these concepts. So I've realized looking through the podcast and trying to make this more efficient, I'm like, okay, rather than say the same stuff all the time, Here's kind of the educational piece, but now we can put together tools where people can actually not only see what I'm talking about, but there are quizzes and everything where you can kind of do a self-assessment on where you are. So what percentage of your brain runs other people's scripts? The average American spends seven hours a day on screen time. So our attention is the product being sold. This is what big tech has been monetizing. And I'm not saying tech is bad. I've used tech more than seven hours a day. The question is, are you using it actively? Are you using it passively? which is a big deal in all of these things. And so I actually created something called an NPC test, which is a survey you can fill out that kind of gives you an assessment. So you can see, hey, based on a day, this is who's programming me. I'm getting this bit from Netflix. I'm getting this bit from... I'm getting this bit from this person. So this is a big piece of it. So I'll show you that survey. Then the next area of this is, do you own your own money? We talk about this a lot. And by the way, once you go through and you do these assessments, hopefully what happens with people is they realize... We have nothing to lose. This is what I keep on saying over and over again, that we have to build these parallel systems. We're already in a digital prison and we just don't know it. Once you realize that, like, what are you holding on to? So in the interest of, you know, the dollar's lost eighty seven percent of its purchasing power just since nineteen seventy one. It's lost ninety nine percent total. I've talked at length about all of the different ways our current system is being surveilled. Now we have backdoor CBDCs. We had gold confiscation, then we had Nixon abandoning the gold standard. Now we have a situation where banks don't even have fractional reserve. requirements and you don't own your stocks you don't own the voting rights in your stocks and when the next collapse happens the banks will end up owning your retirement income you don't own your own money unless you have a self-custody asset but then you were promised bitcoin was going to be the answer and then it turns out that's hijacked digital surveillance gold that the government can track And the government can see, and most new people getting involved, never even touch a Bitcoin. They own it through one of these financial instruments, the same financial instruments that will go to the large commercial banks in a financial collapse. So this is already, we don't own our money. We don't have control over our attention. And then the big area for me when I started on this was health. And then I went through this thing where I'm like, well, we're going to do all these click wrap agreements. And then I realized people, if you're using drugs, prescription drugs, you're subject to package inserts. that you don't sign and almost no one reads. And if you do, it's like reading a fortune cookie. The whole thing is fine print. So one of the things that I've created, which may be better in OSR, but I've actually created a database of all eleven thousand plus package inserts. sorted by the warnings, which once you see what they are, they're absurd, right? I mean, you see all this stuff like, you know, could cause death, could cause whatever it happens to be. You can sort that and there's a chat bot. So you can just learn about... It'll be an interesting experience for you if you're on any of these prescription drugs to see, well, if these drugs are so great, why is there no liability? And why are there all of these risks on package inserts that you never even saw, but that basically say that the product is harmful? They're telling you the product is harmful. And then if the product does harm, you have no legal recourse. Excuse me. This is the basic structure. So I've created that. And I've also created, as I've talked about, hospitals. are by law supposed to provide pricing information. This was a law. Well, it turns out that there's a little exit clause in there that says, well, they can not share the pricing information and just pay a fee of three hundred dollars plus. It could be more than three hundred dollars a day. It could be more than that. Well, something like eighty seven percent of hospitals choose to pay the fine rather than show the pricing. So I have created an entire map, interactive map where you can search and you can see whether or not the hospitals in your area provide transparency or not. And for the hospitals that do provide transparency, I've downloaded all of the pricing information so that you can see the comparative pricing. And then you can compare that pricing to OSR and medical tourism. This is eye-opening. And by the way, for those eighty-seven percent of hospitals that don't, one of the things I'm going to add next is the ability, and I showed as a clip Last time, you know, I'm going to play it again because I'm seeing more and more of these. These are unsolicited. I'm going to play this clip because what I want to see is I want to see a hundred thousand videos like this on the own nothing site. So I just got my hospital bill in the mail. And before I had a baby, I always wondered how much it costs to have a baby here in the U.S., I have pretty good health insurance, but this is the breakdown of my hospital bill. So the first thing was the room where I stayed at after delivery, and that was seventeen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Pharmacy, fifty five dollars. Medical surgical supplies, one thousand three hundred and twenty three dollars. Non-sterile supplies, two thousand four hundred thirty seven. Sterile supply, fifty bucks. Lab work, one thousand four hundred eighty four. Immunology, four hundred and fifty dollars. Hematology, one thousand ninety eight. Anesthesia, six hundred and fifteen dollars for that nice epidural. Drugs required, fifty nine. Delivery room, twenty thousand three hundred ninety five for a whopping total oh wait no i missed it i don't even know what the heck this is five thousand six hundred fifty seven dollars and then for a whopping total of fifty one thousand three hundred eighty three dollars this is before insurance and just as an fyi there was no complications at all during my birth natural delivery no issues whatsoever I mean, that's a typical case, right? So imagine if we had a hundred thousand people sharing those clips and then those clips went viral. Because we see something like this