Truth Jihad Radio

Nick Kollerstrom has appeared on this show many times to discuss his books on 9/11, 7/7, Charlie Hebdo, World War II revisionism, and most recently the “just war” in Ukraine. Let’s ask Nick: If Russia is fighting a just war against an aggressor who keeps pushing NATO’s borders and first-strike-oriented nuclear weapons systems ever closer to Moscow, what does that make the Palestinians’ war against the Zionist lunatics, those psychopathic killers intoxicated to the point of genocidal fury by the notion that the God they don’t believe in gave them Palestine 3000 years ago?

Excerpts from the interview:

(According to a certain strain of Jewish messianic millenarian thought) Jews are at war with all of the other tribes or nations, that is the Goyim, and that the Messiah will come and create paradise on earth by leading the Jews in conquest and absolute destruction of all of the other nations. This has led to a mentality amongst a certain element of the most powerful people of the Jewish communities that they (the one-world globalist movements) glom on to, whether it's (Trotskyist) communism or Zionism or Illuminism…(aiming) to basically destroy all the non-Jewish nations so that Israel will reign supreme and the Messiah will rule the world from Jerusalem. Anyway, that's my rant for the evening. What do you think?

I think it's important to see how, as Shlomo Sand has demonstrated in his book, The Invention of the Jewish People, the Palestinians are the actual nearest thing we have to the actual descendants of the Judean citizens—in other words, the ancient Jews…The concept that David once gained a great empire is complete fiction. All the research, very intensive, ever since the Jews got back to the Holy Land, excavating and looking desperately for any evidence of King Solomon — nothing whatsoever, not a peep. All the records in archives of kings and rulers around the Middle East or East Mediterranean and find no reference at all to Solomon. There's no trace of any evidence of Solomon's temple, of Solomon's gold, Solomon's arches, Solomon's horses. It's just a story. And it's a story based on what they might have experienced, memories of the glorious golden age of ancient Egypt. There really were temples in Egypt plated with gold, glittering in the sun, splendid temples, and they imagined Solomon's temple in that way. But there never was a Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, absolutely not. Jews can't build a third temple because the first one never existed.

So where does this myth come from then and this effort to rebuild the Temple which is the basis of the Jewish eschatology that's driving the most radical element among these genocidal settler-colonialists occupying Palestine?

In the second century BC or a bit earlier, national myths were being forged to hold the people together, to give them a sense of togetherness, and the script writers made a glorious past of this empire. People's memories were scrambled by various past events and nobody had a memory of what actually happened then so this glorious past was imagined. And I think in the same way, for example, Britons imagine that King Arthur was King of England, and it's very hard to admit that historical records don't actually confirm that.

The glorious Islamic mosque is on the Temple Mount which was a Roman fortress, the Tenth Legion, built by Hadrian and it's got nothing whatever to do with the Jews. There was never any Jewish temple on that Temple Mount which was built maybe first century BC for 10,000 Romans, the Tenth Legion, to keep law and order in Jerusalem, and I think historians need to stop fantasising about some Jewish Temple there.

Jewish Temples were never built on the highest part of a mountain, that just didn't happen, whereas Roman forts were always built on the highest part of any land. There is a site within the old walled city of Jerusalem where there would have been the original Temple, but because of what happened in 70 AD, Jews totally forgot where it was.

Now, what happened then? Well, that was the terrible massacre, the terrible war whereby Romans wiped out a million Jews and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. And you could hardly know that there was once a great city there. And so it was the most terrible thing. Jews must have really annoyed the Romans to make that happen. And after that, there was no trace of where the Temple was.

And by the way, that's what Jesus prophesied in the Bible, talking to his disciples, admiring this glorious Temple, which Hadrian had just done up and made it look really fine with white marble and everything And he said, “look, soon there'll be not one stone left on another. You won't be able to recognize the place.”

And that actually happened.

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Nick Kollerstrom has appeared on this show many times to discuss his books on 9/11, 7/7, Charlie Hebdo, World War II revisionism, and most recently the “just war” in Ukraine. Let’s ask Nick: If Russia is fighting a just war against an aggressor who keeps pushing NATO’s borders and first-strike-oriented nuclear weapons systems ever closer to Moscow, what does that make the Palestinians’ war against the Zionist lunatics, those psychopathic killers intoxicated to the point of genocidal fury by the notion that the God they don’t believe in gave them Palestine 3000 years ago?

Excerpts from the interview:

(According to a certain strain of Jewish messianic millenarian thought) Jews are at war with all of the other tribes or nations, that is the Goyim, and that the Messiah will come and create paradise on earth by leading the Jews in conquest and absolute destruction of all of the other nations. This has led to a mentality amongst a certain element of the most powerful people of the Jewish communities that they (the one-world globalist movements) glom on to, whether it's (Trotskyist) communism or Zionism or Illuminism…(aiming) to basically destroy all the non-Jewish nations so that Israel will reign supreme and the Messiah will rule the world from Jerusalem. Anyway, that's my rant for the evening. What do you think?

I think it's important to see how, as Shlomo Sand has demonstrated in his book, The Invention of the Jewish People, the Palestinians are the actual nearest thing we have to the actual descendants of the Judean citizens—in other words, the ancient Jews…The concept that David once gained a great empire is complete fiction. All the research, very intensive, ever since the Jews got back to the Holy Land, excavating and looking desperately for any evidence of King Solomon — nothing whatsoever, not a peep. All the records in archives of kings and rulers around the Middle East or East Mediterranean and find no reference at all to Solomon. There's no trace of any evidence of Solomon's temple, of Solomon's gold, Solomon's arches, Solomon's horses. It's just a story. And it's a story based on what they might have experienced, memories of the glorious golden age of ancient Egypt. There really were temples in Egypt plated with gold, glittering in the sun, splendid temples, and they imagined Solomon's temple in that way. But there never was a Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, absolutely not. Jews can't build a third temple because the first one never existed.

So where does this myth come from then and this effort to rebuild the Temple which is the basis of the Jewish eschatology that's driving the most radical element among these genocidal settler-colonialists occupying Palestine?

In the second century BC or a bit earlier, national myths were being forged to hold the people together, to give them a sense of togetherness, and the script writers made a glorious past of this empire. People's memories were scrambled by various past events and nobody had a memory of what actually happened then so this glorious past was imagined. And I think in the same way, for example, Britons imagine that King Arthur was King of England, and it's very hard to admit that historical records don't actually confirm that.

The glorious Islamic mosque is on the Temple Mount which was a Roman fortress, the Tenth Legion, built by Hadrian and it's got nothing whatever to do with the Jews. There was never any Jewish temple on that Temple Mount which was built maybe first century BC for 10,000 Romans, the Tenth Legion, to keep law and order in Jerusalem, and I think historians need to stop fantasising about some Jewish Temple there.

Jewish Temples were never built on the highest part of a mountain, that just didn't happen, whereas Roman forts were always built on the highest part of any land. There is a site within the old walled city of Jerusalem where there would have been the original Temple, but because of what happened in 70 AD, Jews totally forgot where it was.

Now, what happened then? Well, that was the terrible massacre, the terrible war whereby Romans wiped out a million Jews and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. And you could hardly know that there was once a great city there. And so it was the most terrible thing. Jews must have really annoyed the Romans to make that happen. And after that, there was no trace of where the Temple was.

And by the way, that's what Jesus prophesied in the Bible, talking to his disciples, admiring this glorious Temple, which Hadrian had just done up and made it look really fine with white marble and everything And he said, “look, soon there'll be not one stone left on another. You won't be able to recognize the place.”

And that actually happened.

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Dr. Barrett, your thoughts on resistance factions' efforts to try to change the equation of the Israeli atrocities we're witnessing in the besieged Gaza Strip, with the Yemenis now not just sending drones and missiles towards Israel, but what they're doing on the high seas to draw attention to Gaza's plight.

Well, it's something that people all over the world are cheering for and have been demanding since this genocidal mass murder campaign by the Israelis started two months ago.cEverybody is asking, why can't any governments stand up and do something about this? And here we have a country that's actually doing something, Yemen, taking the lead.

And this naturally 4aises the stakes and puts pressure on the international community in general and of course the self-declared global imperial hegemon, the United States in particular, that things easily can get out of hand if something isn't done.

I think the U.S.cknows full well that its national interests, its imperial interests, are not served by this genocidal massacre of Palestinians.cIn fact, I think a lot of the American Jews who support the genocidal Zionist entity in general recognize that what's going on right now is discrediting it and in fact robbing it of any future in the region. And so the Zionists around the Biden administration probably would like to find a way to back off the track that they're on right now.

So we obviously need a lot more of this kind of action and I think that it will put pressure on the relevant parties to back off from this militarily useless ongoing massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians, especially women and children.

On that escalation of regional tensions, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahi said that we're just steps away from this thing completely blowing up into something completely out of hand in the region. What would that look like, an escalation of this thing? Because we've seen Hezbollah involved along the Lebanese border, we've seen attacks on U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq, we're seeing the activity by the resistance out of Yemen on the high seas…Now the US wants to put together a coalition against Yemen’s attacking Israeli-bound ships. If we see that coalition put together, if we see them face-to-face with resistance factions in the region, we could very well see the kind of escalation that you alluded to. What would that look like? And is the US willing to take it there?

I don’t think the US wants that, and most of the regional parties don’t want it either. Netanyahu and the crazies around them may dream of some kind of apocalypse from which Israel will crawl out of the radioactive rubble and somehow rule the world with a Messiah that the rest of the world would call the Antichrist, but I don’t think the more practical strategists involved in running the world from their perches atop the various countries really want to roll the dice with something like that. The suffering would be enormous. And the suffering that we’re witnessing now has already damaged the US and its soft power. The more death and destruction that ultimately gets laid at the door of the genocidal Zionist entity and its sponsor in Washington, D.C., the worse things are for the future of that entity and its sponsor, that is, the U.S. empire, which is really scrambling now to try to maintain its number one position in the world as decades of mismanagement of that position have led it to the precipice.

It's losing in Ukraine. It's in a standoff with China that cannot end well for the U.S. And now it's losing the entire East Asia region, the entire Muslim world. Two billion people are going to absolutely hate the United States because of what's been going on in Gaza. And so if it escalates, I think it would probably be a gradual escalation. I don't think we'd go straight to all-out nuclear war in 24 hours. But we would see a lot more images showing that the world is being grossly mismanaged by the people in charge now, namely the United States, which just vetoed a UN resolution, supported essentially by the entire world, for a ceasefire. So the US is the one powerful country standing against a peaceful resolution of this thing. And it spins out of hand, the U.S. is going to look even worse, and ultimately that will be the end of the American empire.

And that's the thing, Dr. Barrett, because it seems like the White House, along with Joe Biden's cabinet, are getting increasingly more frustrated with Netanyahu, with Israel, what it's doing in Gaza, not allowing in humanitarian aid, even if they don't want to respect a ceasefire, which you just mentioned the U.S. helped them avoid that Security Council resolution. So my question to you, at the utlimate zenith of tensions between the two, at the height of frustration, what would America's ultimate frustration with the Israeli regime look like?

Well, in the past, there have been times when America presidents stood up to the Zionists to some extent. You have to go back pretty far to see any of them seriously standing against Israel. With Eisenhower, for example, back in the Suez Crisis. At that point the U.S. was not yet fully Zionist-occupied. Since then, there have been mild moments of pushback, where Nixon and Kissinger didn't quite give the Zionists everything they wanted in the 1973 war. And Jimmy Carter was pushing a little harder for peace than the Zionists wanted, so they made him a one-term president. George H. W. Bush insisted on selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia. And the Zionists didn’t like that so they made him a one-term president. Since then American presidents have pretty much got the message. When the Zionists blew up the World Trade Center and blamed it on Muslims, Bush and Cheney were basically forced to go along with that and back up the ludicrous cover story that al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11, which of course it wasn’t. Israel was. So Israel has tremendous power in the United States. And the Biden Administration is run by Zionists. They’re just Zionists with a slightly different outlook than the ones in Tel Aviv.

...The Republican party has gone all in for ultra-genocidal Likudnic Zionism and can raise a lot of money from the stupid, hardcore Zionists, who are even stupider than the ones around Biden, who somehow think that all this slaughter and genocide is good for Israel. And so those people will be throwing vast amounts of money against Biden in his re-election campaign if Biden and his people set themselves up as being opposed to Israel.

So they (the Biden Administration) have to find some way to apply pressure—mostly behind the scenes, I think. But so far they're not doing that. So far what they're doing is saying these mealy-mouthed things out of both sides of their mouth, and meanwhile just giving all the support that Israel wants, handing them weapons to slaughter women and children with, throwing money at them, and even saying a lot of ridiculously pro-genocide things that really should get them all tried, convicted, and executed in the Hague.

Before you go, even if they don't push the Israelis into a permanent ceasefire, why not push for the opening of the corridors to allow in humanitarian aid? Where is the justification?Why not push harder to at least get aid because there's no justification and it's against rules of engagement and war to deny people food, water and fuel?

Right. So far, clearly the Biden administration has not made any kind of decision to actually interfere with the genocide. They're still supporting it. They haven't decided to make a real move against it yet. And so they're not even giving strong rhetorical support for stopping this blockade of food, water and medical supplies.

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Dr. Barrett, your thoughts on resistance factions' efforts to try to change the equation of the Israeli atrocities we're witnessing in the besieged Gaza Strip, with the Yemenis now not just sending drones and missiles towards Israel, but what they're doing on the high seas to draw attention to Gaza's plight.

Well, it's something that people all over the world are cheering for and have been demanding since this genocidal mass murder campaign by the Israelis started two months ago.cEverybody is asking, why can't any governments stand up and do something about this? And here we have a country that's actually doing something, Yemen, taking the lead.

And this naturally 4aises the stakes and puts pressure on the international community in general and of course the self-declared global imperial hegemon, the United States in particular, that things easily can get out of hand if something isn't done.

I think the U.S.cknows full well that its national interests, its imperial interests, are not served by this genocidal massacre of Palestinians.cIn fact, I think a lot of the American Jews who support the genocidal Zionist entity in general recognize that what's going on right now is discrediting it and in fact robbing it of any future in the region. And so the Zionists around the Biden administration probably would like to find a way to back off the track that they're on right now.

So we obviously need a lot more of this kind of action and I think that it will put pressure on the relevant parties to back off from this militarily useless ongoing massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians, especially women and children.

On that escalation of regional tensions, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahi said that we're just steps away from this thing completely blowing up into something completely out of hand in the region. What would that look like, an escalation of this thing? Because we've seen Hezbollah involved along the Lebanese border, we've seen attacks on U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq, we're seeing the activity by the resistance out of Yemen on the high seas…Now the US wants to put together a coalition against Yemen’s attacking Israeli-bound ships. If we see that coalition put together, if we see them face-to-face with resistance factions in the region, we could very well see the kind of escalation that you alluded to. What would that look like? And is the US willing to take it there?

I don’t think the US wants that, and most of the regional parties don’t want it either. Netanyahu and the crazies around them may dream of some kind of apocalypse from which Israel will crawl out of the radioactive rubble and somehow rule the world with a Messiah that the rest of the world would call the Antichrist, but I don’t think the more practical strategists involved in running the world from their perches atop the various countries really want to roll the dice with something like that. The suffering would be enormous. And the suffering that we’re witnessing now has already damaged the US and its soft power. The more death and destruction that ultimately gets laid at the door of the genocidal Zionist entity and its sponsor in Washington, D.C., the worse things are for the future of that entity and its sponsor, that is, the U.S. empire, which is really scrambling now to try to maintain its number one position in the world as decades of mismanagement of that position have led it to the precipice.

It's losing in Ukraine. It's in a standoff with China that cannot end well for the U.S. And now it's losing the entire East Asia region, the entire Muslim world. Two billion people are going to absolutely hate the United States because of what's been going on in Gaza. And so if it escalates, I think it would probably be a gradual escalation. I don't think we'd go straight to all-out nuclear war in 24 hours. But we would see a lot more images showing that the world is being grossly mismanaged by the people in charge now, namely the United States, which just vetoed a UN resolution, supported essentially by the entire world, for a ceasefire. So the US is the one powerful country standing against a peaceful resolution of this thing. And it spins out of hand, the U.S. is going to look even worse, and ultimately that will be the end of the American empire.

And that's the thing, Dr. Barrett, because it seems like the White House, along with Joe Biden's cabinet, are getting increasingly more frustrated with Netanyahu, with Israel, what it's doing in Gaza, not allowing in humanitarian aid, even if they don't want to respect a ceasefire, which you just mentioned the U.S. helped them avoid that Security Council resolution. So my question to you, at the utlimate zenith of tensions between the two, at the height of frustration, what would America's ultimate frustration with the Israeli regime look like?

Well, in the past, there have been times when America presidents stood up to the Zionists to some extent. You have to go back pretty far to see any of them seriously standing against Israel. With Eisenhower, for example, back in the Suez Crisis. At that point the U.S. was not yet fully Zionist-occupied. Since then, there have been mild moments of pushback, where Nixon and Kissinger didn't quite give the Zionists everything they wanted in the 1973 war. And Jimmy Carter was pushing a little harder for peace than the Zionists wanted, so they made him a one-term president. George H. W. Bush insisted on selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia. And the Zionists didn’t like that so they made him a one-term president. Since then American presidents have pretty much got the message. When the Zionists blew up the World Trade Center and blamed it on Muslims, Bush and Cheney were basically forced to go along with that and back up the ludicrous cover story that al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11, which of course it wasn’t. Israel was. So Israel has tremendous power in the United States. And the Biden Administration is run by Zionists. They’re just Zionists with a slightly different outlook than the ones in Tel Aviv.

...The Republican party has gone all in for ultra-genocidal Likudnic Zionism and can raise a lot of money from the stupid, hardcore Zionists, who are even stupider than the ones around Biden, who somehow think that all this slaughter and genocide is good for Israel. And so those people will be throwing vast amounts of money against Biden in his re-election campaign if Biden and his people set themselves up as being opposed to Israel.

So they (the Biden Administration) have to find some way to apply pressure—mostly behind the scenes, I think. But so far they're not doing that. So far what they're doing is saying these mealy-mouthed things out of both sides of their mouth, and meanwhile just giving all the support that Israel wants, handing them weapons to slaughter women and children with, throwing money at them, and even saying a lot of ridiculously pro-genocide things that really should get them all tried, convicted, and executed in the Hague.

Before you go, even if they don't push the Israelis into a permanent ceasefire, why not push for the opening of the corridors to allow in humanitarian aid? Where is the justification?Why not push harder to at least get aid because there's no justification and it's against rules of engagement and war to deny people food, water and fuel?

Right. So far, clearly the Biden administration has not made any kind of decision to actually interfere with the genocide. They're still supporting it. They haven't decided to make a real move against it yet. And so they're not even giving strong rhetorical support for stopping this blockade of food, water and medical supplies.

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Historian Michael Hoffman discusses his article “The missing link to comprehending Israeli mass murder and racism.” He points out that “both the left and the “conservative” right fail to point out that the racist disparity (“a prism in which [Israeli] lives are invaluable …while [Palestinian] deaths…are regrettable”] is due to the influence of the Talmudic theology in Zionism. This is the missing link to comprehending Israeli mass murder and racism.” So what specific aspects and passages of the Talmud are responsible, according to the former AP reporter and author of nine books? Tune in and find out.

Then whistleblowing former Federal Special Agent Karl Golovin comes on to discuss the way leading JFK assassination researchers censor those who point the finger at Israel. Referencing leading JFK expert Jefferson Morley, Karl writes:

“While being highly aware of the Angleton-Mossad-Nukes evidence from researching his biography “Ghost” of Angleton, how long has Morley truly sat on all the CIA-LBJ-Mossad/Israel-JFK-RFK-9/11 connections, notably as reported in your (Laurent’s) book “Unspoken. .” – a copy of which I introduced and placed in Morley’s hands at the Nat. Press Club event on 12/6/22. My comments/ questions of the panel ref Northwoods document, Israel starting just after 1:27:00.”’

Karl Golovin retired in 2007 as a Special Agent of the U.S. Customs Service (by then known as DHS/ICE). In November 2001, while working in the U.S. Customs Service’s Office of Internal Affairs, Golovin was among USCS/IA agents assigned duties at Ground Zero and Fresh Kils Landfill, including sifting the rubble of WTC-7.

Golovin served as Security Director of the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign.

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Historian Michael Hoffman discusses his article “The missing link to comprehending Israeli mass murder and racism.” He points out that “both the left and the “conservative” right fail to point out that the racist disparity (“a prism in which [Israeli] lives are invaluable …while [Palestinian] deaths…are regrettable”] is due to the influence of the Talmudic theology in Zionism. This is the missing link to comprehending Israeli mass murder and racism.” So what specific aspects and passages of the Talmud are responsible, according to the former AP reporter and author of nine books? Tune in and find out.

Then whistleblowing former Federal Special Agent Karl Golovin comes on to discuss the way leading JFK assassination researchers censor those who point the finger at Israel. Referencing leading JFK expert Jefferson Morley, Karl writes:

“While being highly aware of the Angleton-Mossad-Nukes evidence from researching his biography “Ghost” of Angleton, how long has Morley truly sat on all the CIA-LBJ-Mossad/Israel-JFK-RFK-9/11 connections, notably as reported in your (Laurent’s) book “Unspoken. .” – a copy of which I introduced and placed in Morley’s hands at the Nat. Press Club event on 12/6/22. My comments/ questions of the panel ref Northwoods document, Israel starting just after 1:27:00.”’

Karl Golovin retired in 2007 as a Special Agent of the U.S. Customs Service (by then known as DHS/ICE). In November 2001, while working in the U.S. Customs Service’s Office of Internal Affairs, Golovin was among USCS/IA agents assigned duties at Ground Zero and Fresh Kils Landfill, including sifting the rubble of WTC-7.

Golovin served as Security Director of the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign.

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Should Jews be rising up against Zionism in general, and the bloodthirsty Netanyahu regime in particular? That’s the contention of Nicky Reid, a colleague of my favorite anarchist guest, Keith Preston of Attack the System. Check out Nicky’s new article:

The Jews Must Join the Intifada Against the State of Israel

Nicky also recently pointed out that numerous pillars of the antiwoke movement, erstwhile champions of free speech, have suddenly started censoring and silencing anyone who defends Palestine against genocide.

Nicky Reid is an agoraphobic anarcho-genderqueer gonzo blogger from Central Pennsylvania and assistant editor for Attack the System. You can find her online at Exile in Happy Valley.

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Should Jews be rising up against Zionism in general, and the bloodthirsty Netanyahu regime in particular? That’s the contention of Nicky Reid, a colleague of my favorite anarchist guest, Keith Preston of Attack the System. Check out Nicky’s new article:

The Jews Must Join the Intifada Against the State of Israel

Nicky also recently pointed out that numerous pillars of the antiwoke movement, erstwhile champions of free speech, have suddenly started censoring and silencing anyone who defends Palestine against genocide.

Nicky Reid is an agoraphobic anarcho-genderqueer gonzo blogger from Central Pennsylvania and assistant editor for Attack the System. You can find her online at Exile in Happy Valley.

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Chris Brickler is the CIO of MyndVR, the Leading Provider of VR-Based Digital Therapeutic Experiences for the Aging Population. They have a grant from BVL, or Bowlers to Veterans Link, a 501c3, which is enabling them to donate virtual reality glasses to eight veterans homes in California.

In this interview Chris Bricker discusses his projects to use virtual reality to convince old folks’ homes’ residents that “happy days are here again,” and to treat veterans’ PTSD.

I push back, saying things like:

“An awful lot of people these days are basically just zombies walking around staring into these tiny little screens, their cell phones. And I guess I'll lay my cards on the table here. I'm one of those critics of technology. I'm one of those people that my friends all thought maybe I was actually the Unabomber back in the day.

“To me, the zombies walking around staring at their cell phones don't look very healthy. And the amount of screen time that kids have doesn't look healthy. And there's a lot of research corroborating these things.

“In the kinds of old folk homes that we have in the United States right now they usually get substandard care from very low wage people who don't care about them, not like their family members do. And of course that this is viewed as utterly barbaric by many of the people here in Morocco where I now live: ‘Parking people in old folks homes, are you kidding?! The family has the caregivers, the caregivers are always family, you always die surrounded by your family in your family home here in Morocco…’”

So is my skepticism justified? Or will Chris and others figure out how to use VR technology in life-enhancing ways? Listen and make up your own mind.

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Chris Brickler is the CIO of MyndVR, the Leading Provider of VR-Based Digital Therapeutic Experiences for the Aging Population. They have a grant from BVL, or Bowlers to Veterans Link, a 501c3, which is enabling them to donate virtual reality glasses to eight veterans homes in California.

In this interview Chris Bricker discusses his projects to use virtual reality to convince old folks’ homes’ residents that “happy days are here again,” and to treat veterans’ PTSD.

I push back, saying things like:

“An awful lot of people these days are basically just zombies walking around staring into these tiny little screens, their cell phones. And I guess I'll lay my cards on the table here. I'm one of those critics of technology. I'm one of those people that my friends all thought maybe I was actually the Unabomber back in the day.

“To me, the zombies walking around staring at their cell phones don't look very healthy. And the amount of screen time that kids have doesn't look healthy. And there's a lot of research corroborating these things.

“In the kinds of old folk homes that we have in the United States right now they usually get substandard care from very low wage people who don't care about them, not like their family members do. And of course that this is viewed as utterly barbaric by many of the people here in Morocco where I now live: ‘Parking people in old folks homes, are you kidding?! The family has the caregivers, the caregivers are always family, you always die surrounded by your family in your family home here in Morocco…’”

So is my skepticism justified? Or will Chris and others figure out how to use VR technology in life-enhancing ways? Listen and make up your own mind.

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com