Thomas Pacchia joins me to discuss why the world feels fake, why trust in institutions is collapsing and why AI may make the crisis far worse before it helps solve it.

Thomas explains why politics, media, censorship, government waste, algorithmic manipulation and broken public services are pushing people into a world where almost nothing feels reliable. We discuss America’s political divide, Britain’s failing state, welfare traps, the blob, free speech, the collapse of trust and why so many people feel trapped inside systems they no longer believe in.

We also get into Peter’s AI project Show Us Receipts, how AI could be used to fact-check politicians and government contracts, why centralised platforms can still control what people see, and why Thomas believes decentralisation, self-sovereignty, privacy, Bitcoin, churches and pubs may be the only realistic way back to something human.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - AI Psychosis

00:01:02 - The Fake World

00:02:28 - A Global Reset

00:04:11 - Is America Recovering?

00:08:36 - The Blob

00:11:40 - Collapse and War

00:13:30 - Brother Against Brother

00:15:11 - Broken Incentives

00:16:20 - Killing Productivity

00:19:27 - Money in Politics

00:25:00 - Politics as Team Sport

00:28:53 - Where Does This Lead?

00:30:51 - Were Libertarians Right?

00:33:16 - Building Parallel Systems

00:36:23 - Most People Are Trapped

00:45:27 - What Has Got Better?

00:47:19 - Britain’s Broken State

00:57:17 - Show Us Receipts

01:01:40 - Censored Platforms

01:07:52 - Churches and Pubs

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