Welcome to episode one of the Starting The Wave podcast.
This podcast is designed as a toolkit to help anyone gain more clarity and understanding about how we have found ourselves in this emergency situation. The first season — called Anatomy of the Armageddon Crisis — explores the strategic decisions made by people over thousands of years that have led us to this point.
The level of powerlessness we all feel about the world today is not an accident. No one wants to feel powerless about the world, we all want it to change, yet we don't know where to start... why?
Because big business wants us feeling powerless. The money and influence of big business purposely shapes culture and thought through a set of very old stories, teachers, awards, and narratives that keep us distracted from real solutions.
Did you know Socrates taught a famous tyrant who ruled Athens, killing 5% of its population in eight months, and that Plato was directly related to the gang of people that rules with him? Did you know that Aristotle is an actual idiot who was wrong about logic — proven by a German guy who walked home with Einstein?
Probably not — and that's because the sanitised version of history we get at school leaves out a lot of critical facts. What we are taught about this world as we're growing up is not what happened... it's a story about what happened designed to make us feel powerless about changing the future created by big business.
This podcast episode is designed to show you how to start resisting the hopelessness of the world with self-love. In this episode, I'll explain to you how, if we could scale self-love to a billion people, we could kill big business and heal the world from the inside out.
If you want hope and a plan you can be part of to help heal the world, this podcast is for you.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome & purpose of Starting the Wave
04:18 – The Armageddon Crisis & the origins of our shared powerlessness
10:33 – The hidden human design of today’s crises
16:50 – Big business “malware” and cultural viruses
27:25 – The Overton Window and how our minds get hacked
41:02 – Why world peace is so illogical
54:40 – Climate, militaries, and why demilitarisation is our only path
1:01:55 – The flawed definition of logic & when Kurt decked Aristotle
1:07:15 – Closing: vision for the movement & invitation to join
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Some Receipts For This Episode
Socrates students who were tyrants/idiots/traitors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias
(The above link also shows you Plato's family tree and relations to the tyrant)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades
Critias = ex-pupil who became a brutal oligarch.
Charmides = ex-pupil who joined that same regime.
Alcibiades = ex-pupil who betrayed Athens multiple times in war.
Plato related through his mummy to the 30 tyrants (also explicitly calls him a coach to a dictator) https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/ferdinand-student-resources/ferdinand-key-thinkers-plato
Deaths from fossil fuel poison in the air https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077784
Harvard's love of big oil money
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/3/10/report-on-harvard-fossil-fuel-funding/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/28/foreign-funding-donations/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/04/david-rockefeller-gives-100-million-for-harvard-undergraduate-programs/
UN land paid for by big oil
https://search.archives.un.org/uploads/r/united-nations-archives/b/a/7/ba799b5129324e1b65b05d8d9cd4b300a3e241539708e1d6f9e5ec1fa37ffe5c/S-1097-0003-13-00004.pdf
