EP: 58 Globalization Lies, Welfare Traps & Manufactured Culture Wars

The Sense and Senseless Podcast · Jul 20, 2026 · 59m · transcript

Bryan and Jason continue exposing “The Game.” We connect the fall of the 600-year Ottoman Empire to today’s Middle East chaos and America’s own decline. After WWI, Western powers (and powerful banking families) carved up the Middle East for oil, drawing arbitrary borders that forced enemies to live together and sparked endless conflict — classic divide and conquer. We trace how the same forces shifted the U.S. from manufacturing powerhouse to service economy through globalization, offshoring millions of jobs, exploding inequality, and creating massive government dependency. A $469 million…