If we want real solutions, society needs to drive the government. It shouldn’t be the other way around.

Unfortunately, the incentives are not in place. So how can we encourage new ways to funnel capital into local communities so they can solve the problems they face?

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of the Of Two Minds blog and has written 11 books on economics, the federal government, healthcare, and finance. His newest book, Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States, shines a light on how the systemic crises in the United States are reinforcing each other at dangerous points and the global crisis that offers America’s Grand Strategy an opportunity to rebuild.

On this episode of the Wiggin Sessions, Charles joins me to dive deeper into his new book and describe how a new, revolutionary Grand Strategy will be the ultimate factor in which nation-states fail, and which ones thrive.

Listen in to hear our conversation on the realignment of America’s Grand Strategies, how national progress evolves, and the importance of society driving the government.

Key Takeaways

Charles’ insight into the creation of his new book

How Grand Strategies are being focused too heavily on foreign policy when they should be focused on domestic issues

Charles’ proposition of an open-sourced, self-organizing economy based on labor

The realignment of Grand Strategies around scarcity of oil, energy, and capital

The “island of coherence” and how countries with that status are able to influence the rest of the world

How the world has stopped evolving and adapting

The importance of increasing incentives to focus on efficiency and funneling capital into local communities so they can solve their own problems

Why radical decentralization is key to solving global problems

Why society should drive the government instead of the government driving society

How national progress used to evolve through positive synergy and Charles’ idea of “fatal synergy”

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Resources 

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Articles by Charles on Daily Reckoning

Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States