Free World Theory

Episode 5:

This episode explains the central reason why there is so much political turmoil around the world today. Because of the rise of digital technology, the organization of society is changing from  political dominance to network dominance.

Everybody senses that political systems are failing worldwide.  They are failing because they have become out of date and obsolete. As networks rise, the old, conventional politicians who crave power and control are increasingly irrelevant --  this episode of FWT introduces the new social systems that are  replacing them. 

Episode 4:

There are only two ways people can be organized, through hierarchies or networks.  There are no other possibilities.  

Thousands of years ago when nomadic wanderers first settled into agricultural communities, the first hierarchical rulers muscled in.  According to historian, Will Durant, it was probably the first viscious killer to attack an agricultural community who became the first King.  

While the fires were still smouldering, he appointed a team of bruisers to rule the village with organized force.  They created slavery.  They created taxes.  They created top-down control of the community.

Did the conquered people give in because they had no choice?  Was it better to be ruled by one great master that to fight the hundreds who might attack them next?  All we know is that down through the centuries ever since, thugs have kept the state alive through brutal centralized force.  

But today, because new kinds of networks are developing, for the first time in the history, that’s starting to change…

Episode 3:

The rise of technology is causing society to be more and more decentralized.  Governments would like to stop it, but — as Alvin Toffler predicted decades ago — it’s an irreversable trend. 

To illustrate the huge revolutionary power of this trend, Chas Holloway continues to explain the history of money from its beginnings five thousand years ago to the new cryptocurrencies of today.  

Money is a technology, and like any other fundamental tech, once introduced, it completely reorganizes civilization.  Money is a good example of how this has happened — and is happening, once again.  

This illustration — the history of money, which is completed in this episode — is just a prelude to an even more fundamental revolution to come.  

Episode 2:

Free World Theory is the science of how to create and sustain decentralized societies. It also contains a set of social decentralization tools.  This episode is the first half of the introduction to Free World Theory.

If you’re a fan of Dan Carlin’s great historical podcasts, or of Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity,” you’ll love Free World Theory. It’s an in-depth, original paradigm that looks at society the way a physicist would examine nature.  It explans in simple terms the cause of the political insanity raging today, and it offers practical solutions. 

WARNING: Free World Theory is NOT a political podcast.  Although it comments on politics and society, FWT is not a political idea — any more than Newtonian physics is a political idea. It’s a science and tech subject. Period.  

Episode 1: 

In the early 20th century, there were two great dystopian novels that warned of a future age of tyranny, two models of how the U.S. and the western world would end — Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984.

Most people feared the 1984 scenario, a takeover by a brutal police state.  But the real threat, the real events happening now, are right out of Huxley’s Brave New World, instead.  A future in which everyone’s social status is determined by the government.  And a future in which the government controls your thoughts.

Listen to this pilot episode of the Free World Theory podcast, then look around.  The people of Brave New World are everywhere — people who actually enjoy being slaves.