BeggarMidas

I am familiar with you only by reputation, but hold you in very high esteem. You are a man of honor and principle who's never given up. I doubt most people in the world will ever really understand what you've been through, the strength & indomitable will it took to survive. To win through that hellish experience, come out the other side of that with hope, resolve, and purpose is remarkable. You are deserving of profound respect, and I wish you the very best fortunes the heavens can bestow.

I am a longtime observer of events in your divided land. There are two general subjects I would greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts upon. Please forgive my poor grasp of your mother tongue in advance, If I err.

1. What are your thoughts on the ghost fleet? The fishing ships that wash up on japanese shores crewless? Who do you think is being forced to man those boats? Army recruits with no sea experience shoved on boats, told to go fish just to die at sea? Wouldn't making a film recreation of that make for a deeply harrowing narrative to bring about more attention and pressure, a powerful counter propaganda story?
2. Considering that Kim-Il-Sung cloaked himself in superstition to cement his power, wouldn't it follow that the best way to twist it back against his heirs be by invoking gwonseon jingak? It seems to me the nuclear tests would be an offense to Sanshen. Kim-jong-il, and then Jong-un as well taking the throne dishonorably invoking the Wrath of Heaven & Yongwang, who will not return rain or health to the land while their rule last? The timing matches up. Would seem to me the best way to fight their influence would be with that traditional lore. Rumors of gwonseon jingak impropriety inviting the wrath of heaven has brought down leaders in the past. Why not now? What do you think?

You've got some seriously big cohones to step up on reddit being the lightening rods you both are. The partisan wolves are already circling and howling for your blood. I am not one of them. Got a bunch of questions for ya

-we is see a unprecedented number of RNC old school not seeking re-election this election year. Do you think that is due to grass root pressure worried about their safety from unhinged POTUS fanboys, or due to top down pressure to replace old guard with new breed RNC?

-do you think the Mueller investigative focus was correct? It seems from my read that Jared Kushner seemed to beg for deeper investigation.

-why has Erik Prince not been more closely investigated?

-we spend a huge amount of cash, and grant expediency excuse time and time again to CIA/NSA. And all they can consistently deliver is domestic mission creep and over dependence on technology. We have allowed them five opportunities to "self police" since the church committee investigation in '77. It has only taken them a few years after every one to go back to business, and incompetence as usual. What will it take for a ground up rebuild to bring them into utility, accountability, and oversight?

So, if i'm reading you properly, you're doing a old timey radio show port into podcast of Black Mirror, itself an homage to Outer limits(original and 90's reboot). That could get away from you in a hurry. A lot of futurist speculation is fantasy projection. Often it tells you far more about the source than the subject. VERY often. Dreamers who fictionalize things they actually poorly understand. Even some popular scientists I could name have been going round the futurist bend getting lost in their own reflection in the mirror of celebrity, and losing touch with their credibility. How do you plan on vetting the science/research, and riding herd on that urge to run wildly into neverland?

Familiar with your project, like the general idea. Goes a long way towards me forgiving you for how much extra work js has dropped in my shop queue over the years brennan(lol). Have some skepticism about how Brave can fight the tide in maintaining privacy by design going forward, when there is just too many ways to side leak via the OS, third party, broadband carrier aggregation, etc. We know broadband carriers have been sniping search criteria at the DNS level. we have plenty of evidence that there is a whole sordid ecosystem of front end websites that have been running backend fingerprint + ID associate any machine with a extraordinary level of rapid specificity....All of which is being aggregated and traded invisibly between data brokers I'm growing pretty iffy on TOR's longer term chances as well. We see the ability of LEA/IC's to attribute ID's by node entry/exit via probability/statistical aggregation stacking halving in time and number of required entry/exits every year since 2015. The data a person generates has become more valuable than the person themselves are, while many corporate ecosystems have swung towards personal data as it's own marketable asset for some time now...especially in the USA, and emergent markets in South America, africa, india, and others.

...Yet all that's chickenfeed with the LEA 'going dark' pretexts to drive legislative action towards backdooring everything, just ringing the dinner bell to malicious or criminal GO/NGO actors/groups, as Bruce Schreiner has warned everyone who'd listen for just dogs years now. The governments across the world, East. West. North. South. have all basically implied that they all feel the need to spy on everyone...ESPECIALLY their own citizens outweighs any collective need for security, no matter how badly we're taking it in the keister by criminal elements worldwide. Not to mention all the fallout that'll come down as nationalized firewalls/localized data become the status quo. Breaking the open internet into a dozen or more regionally aligned walled gardens going up over the next decade.

...But even THAT pales before the problem we've had since the beginning. The primary security flaws remain in the chairs , not in the machines. We simply cannot protect users from saying "yes" to iffy crap, or sprinting to the end of every EULA/TOS that agrees to questionable AF third party piggybacking so they can play some 'free' farmville-esque game, or put some donkey ears on a selfie or whatever. They hurry through to sign their rights away gleefully:-/

It's literally going to take some radical departures from past practices, some next level out of the box thinking, and more just to tread water. I know it's a lot to unpack, but that's just the world we all have to live in now. All the front end superficial simplicity masks the enormous backend complexity that keeps all the plates spinning...For now. I would love to hear your thoughts on all this.

So, I gotta ask.

Do you think y'all are up to snuff for resisting that level of gravity pull as we move forward?

Oh, snap. Would very much like to chat with you and get your evaluation or recommendations in my own special case. I am impaired by two major sources of unrelated causal organic damage resulting in multiple functional areas of overlapping impact. A lot having to do with language and memory. Cause one was due to repeated shockwave & concussive injuries incurred over a ten year span in the 1990s as a PMC/PPO. Second cause was an autoimmune in nature. My immune system did a lot of wholesale damage to small fibre nerve cells and brain tissue in 2008. I've climbed a long way up a hard hill since then, regained a lot of ground, but I'm still pretty damaged in substantial life impairing way. Short term Recall is still day variable from okay to embarass-a-goldfish. Language comes and goes by the moment, as can lucidity to a lesser extent but with longer duration. I definitely have permanently lost whole chunks of life memory, that my brain will auto fill narrative bridges between the various events on, if I was unable to reaquire those fill in details from old acquaintances and family. And I would prefer to only privately relate the rather extreme ad hoc solutions I've discovered capable of even denting the chronic exhaustion and grey fog that plague my daily existence. I gave up on the head peepers and neuro docs in 2011 when they signed me up for the third round of unproductive testing, starting with another half body EMG. Third time around qualifies as torture in my book if the first two were already inconclusive for aiding diagnosis, and first one had already mapped damage extense. I have considered restarting that process, but I strongly suspect I'm gonna get a lot of clapping monkey bullshit again. Can you help me at all in any or all of this?