289 In the System We Trust

Self-Perfected Podcast · Mar 31, 2026 · 3h 14m · transcript

You can feel a weird shift happening: people have more information than ever, but less ability to verify what any of it means. We start with war talk and the religious language used to sell escalation, then pull the thread into something bigger: how slogans, prophecy narratives, and “patriotic tradition” can replace reading, evidence, and accountability. When the story is powerful enough, it doesn’t matter if it’s coherent, it just has to be repeatable.

From there we get into psychedelics and the DMT realm obsession, not to moralise, but to ask a practical question: does chasing extreme…