In this System Failure Short, Nate reads this week’s essay entitled “Dante’s Inferno”.

The boys begin by acknowledging Kanye West’s banned music and its moment in history. They then pivot into a wild WSJ exposé on Klaus Schwab's downfall and follow this up with a brief discussion of Dante’s Inferno. After the break, Nate does a deep dive into the potentially connected histories of the Knights Templar, the Freemasons, and the Golden Age of Piracy.

In this System Failure Short, Nate reads this week’s essay entitled “The Alchemical Journey”.

Nate begins this episode with a quote from Will Durant about the Kaaba, the black cube venerated in Islam. That brings up the black hexagram on Saturn and the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. All of this serves as a foundation for a discussion of Plato’s Cave, and some clips from a recent American Alchemy about a possible connection between UFOs and Platonism.

In this System Failure Short, Nate reads this week’s essay entitled “The Magical Underground”.

The boys begin this episode with a quote from Will Durant about the financial role of a magical priestly class in Sasanian Persia. That leads to a verbal dissection of a recent interview with Catherine Fitts, who gives us a penetrating insight into shadowy power structures that exist over and above nominal state governments.

In this System Failure Short, Nate reads this week’s essay entitled “The Crucifixion”.

In this episode, Nate reads some engaging quotes from historian Will Durant. Then, the lads compare and contrast two different diagnoses of the mounting economic problems facing modern society: one from Dr. Eric Weinstein and another from Dr. Jordan Peterson. Finally, the boys highlight some of the finer economic points that the good doctors are overlooking.

In this System Failure Short, Nate reads this week’s essay entitled “Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits”.

The lads are sucked back into the Smith-Murray debate that is roiling the interenet this week after Brian reads an opinion piece on the matter. Then, on this Easter weekend, the boys grapple with a novel take on Christianity in which the character of God changes and evolves in The Bible instead of remaining static.