Guest Post by George Mack
What is ignored or neglected by the media — but will be studied by historians?
Here’s the full list of 25 examples:
1. What Happened To Mental Hospitals?
Theory:
1. The USA decided to treat more of the mentally ill at a community level (failed)
2. And had new hope in a wonder drug called Thorazine (didn’t work as hoped) 
2. The Rise Of Negative Media
Since 2010, the media massively increased headlines that use fear, anger, disgust, and sadness.
It has also decreased articles of neutrality and joy.
It’s no surprise that few media outlets are covering this meta point. 
3. The Aging Population Crisis
70% of countries are below the required population replacement levels.
You need a 2.1 fertility rate to maintain a population:
• US = 1.64
• Germany = 1.53
• Japan = 1.34
• China = 1.28
• Korea (image below) = 0.84 
4. The Scale of Pharma Marketing
According to Kantar data — Pharma ads are the news’ biggest customers:
1. CBS – 4/5 of their biggest advertisers are pharmaceuticals
2. ABC – Biggest advertiser is pharmaceutical
3. MSNBC – Biggest advertiser is pharmaceutical 
5. The Headline-Death Gap
67% of deaths are from heart disease, cancer, and road incidents.
The New York Times barely covers these topics.
Why? 
6. The Rise Of The BRICS
• BRICS = Brazil, Russia, India, China, SA (+ Bangladesh, Egypt and UAE)
• G7 = Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK (+ EU)
BRICS are now 31.5% of global GDP vs the G7’s 30%. 
7. The Silent Fentanyl Pandemic
• Overdose is the leading cause of death in under 45’s (Replacing suicide)
• Covid killed 8,900 young people in 2020. Overdoses killed 49,000. (2/3rds Fentanyl)
• In 2022, police seized enough Fentanyl to kill every adult and child in America 
8. The Rise Of Obesity In America:
You can only appreciate this epidemic by watching this video…
9. UK Housing Market Inflation
It’s the most unaffordable since Victorian times
93% inflation in 28 years:
In 1994, it was 4.4x the average salary
In 2022, it was 8.5x the average salary
10. The Lost Lockdown Generation
• Reading ability in the USA is the lowest in 30 years
• Maths scores are the worst since tests began in 1969
• 50% rise in mental health emergency room visits for young people
This has been swept under the rug. 
11. The Homeschooling Boom
In 1971, 78,000 kids were homeschooled in America.
In 2021, 5 million kids were homeschooled in America.
Why is homeschooling booming? 
12. Male Testosterone Levels Plummeting:
Some studies are pointing towards the following in men:
1. Testosterone levels dropped 20% in the last 20 years.
2. Sperm counts have plummeted by 59% from 1973.
So few conversations about why this is happening. 
13. Don’t Ignore India:
• 2023 is the year India becomes the world’s largest population.
• Indians are the number one users of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp.
• In 2021, India exported more in software ($133 billion) than Saudi Arabia did in oil ($113 billion) 
14. The Friendship Recession
• 15% of men have no close friends.
• 10% of women have no close friends
• This has increased massively since 1990 — and is continuing to grow 
15. Global Millionaire Migration
In 2019, the USA had a net migration of 10,800 millionaires.
In 2022, this dropped to 1,500 millionaires.
That’s an 85% drop in 3 years! 
16. Norway Is So Damn Rich
In 2022, Norway’s oil fund was larger than the combined wealth of the 10 richest people in the world.
It makes $1 billion per week — and holds 1.4% of the world’s shares.
(Nuance: Be skeptical of individual Forbes net-worth figures) 
17. The Scale of Saudi Aramco
If you stopped most people in the street in the West, they would not know of Saudi Aramco.
In Q2 2022, it reported more net profit than Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Tesla combined. 
18. YouTube Is The New TV
TikTok and Snapchat are associated with Gen-Z by the media
But YouTube is another level
One-in-five teenagers report being “almost constantly on YouTube” 
19. How Incredible Modern Aviation Is
In 2021, there were only 176 deaths from 2.2 billion airline passengers.
In the same year, ~1.3 million people died in road accidents.
The airline industry might be humans most profound achievement to date 
20. Japan’s Homeless Rate
Why does Japan have so few homeless?
1. Are they lying with their stats?
2. Doing something unethical?
3. Know something we do not?
Either way — it’s an important question that few are exploring. 
21. The Video Game Industry Is Bigger Than You Think
The gaming industry is bigger than all music, TV, and film combined.
It has out-earned music and entertainment for the last 8 years! 
22. Inflationary Industries vs Deflationary Industries
• Why are hospital services and college tuition fees getting more expensive?
• Why are TVs and software getting cheaper? 
23. The Great Tech Neglect
The UK government recently posted a job for the Head of Cyber Security — at £57K per year.
Contrast this with Singapore which pays politicians $750K per year (arguably a less important job) 
24. The Rise Of The Leveraged Individual
There’s no such thing as “mainstream media” anymore
Instead, there is “legacy media” & “new media”
The only thing that gives the “mainstream media” power is the legacy language of “mainstream media”
This is the Emperor’s New Clothes 
• When it comes to new media, faces & personalities are outranking brands.
• Branding in marketing started in the 1500’s.
• Meanwhile, human facial recognition dates millions of years – which is why there’s such a power law to individual creators. 
25. The Importance Of Exercise
The mortality gap between a smoker and non-smoker: 40%.
The mortality gap between the bottom 25% of exercise fitness and top 2%: 400%
The best marketing minds of their generation created anti-smoking ads — where are the pro exercise ads?
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Appalled, not baffled. Maybe even despairing. History repeats. No surprises.
“70% of countries are below the required population replacement levels.”
Speaking as a Boomer, the boom doesn’t need replacing. A regression to the mean would be just fine.
The only reason more than that is needed is to support the rent seeking grifters in the style they shouldn’t have become accustomed to in the first place.
Only true if by “rent seeking grifters” you mean Social Security and Medicare recipients.
Hey … we didn’t beg Uncle Sugar to force US to pay into SS and Medicare via our payroll … that’s on FDR and his socialist dream state in the ’30s.
No. I mean Social Security and Medicare itself. The recipients are actually among the rent paying victims of the grift.
-Pushing the EV industry, yet reducing available electric power
-Pushing vaccine paradigms despite obvious negative health impact like autism
-Promoting harmful sexual / gender practices
-Spilling blood and treasure in pointless foreign conflicts
-Not promoting our own energy production
So many others
Good list, but you forgot one…
Stupid people EVERYWHERE. And I mean EVERYWHERE you look.
That’s a sure sign that your country is going down.
Lemme give you an example….
I went to a large event recently. They had a handful of people handling the parking situation. The geniuses parked us all in 4 layers deep so that it was a HUGE clusterfuck trying to get out of there. Took at least 2 hours to get out of that mess. I won’t even tell you the race of these idiots.
Another example….
Eating out often right now. Not a single soul can take a damn order correctly. I’m starting to just tell the server to give me whatever they think I should have…cuz that’s the way it’s gonna end up anyway. Just saving time. I won’t even tell you the race of these idiots.
Another example….
There is a blog where the majority of commenters think Disney will actually go out of business due to their woke agenda. Now ain’t that hilarious?? I won’t even tell you the race of these people.
And on & on it goes….
It is truly exhausting.
It takes humility to really learn. The modern world celebrates vanity in all of it’s forms. It’s on every second of mainstream media.
Well, I think I met my soulmate at that parking debacle. This man came up to me and asked if I noticed how the world is full of dumbasses? I swear my heart skipped a few beats in that moment.
Avoid crowds.
They are, after all, the largest tribe on the planet.
Sometimes I get really confused when I whole-heartedly oppose ‘The Great Reset’ and all of their tactics but realize on a nearly daily basis that we really need one to correct all the BS of the last 60 years. I’m just not sure who should be leading it. Sometimes I think it should come from the middle and take out both ends.
There isn’t much heavy thinking going on out there. no long-term thinking either.
You started with Asylums……what happened to them??
The public was greatly swayed by a movie called “Snake Pit” and if your not crying by the end,you have NO SOUL.
But that’s the whole point, to appeal to emotion!
Just like “Unsafe at any Speed”or the “Pink Slime”story.
In tbe 90’s they were housed at Res-Care centers,they could each get only 550.00 a month S.S.D.I……the center was supposed to feed,house,keep them active,and clean and medicated(not to mention paperwork)……an impossible task for the money…..it’s ok now,they just DONT EXIST!
The state was more worried about procedure and protocol than the actual care of people.
Worst part was if they wanted to leave in the middle of the night(yes,obviously mentally ill people)we could talk to them,but not STOP them.
Those people are now on the streets or in prison….
But it’s ok,NONE of these places exist anymore
Oh,btw you can thank the good hearted “liberal”……
Item #5 is false.
Last year there were under 50K auto fatalities and over 100K overdose deaths. The scale provided shows that auto deaths were 7.6% and drug overdoses were 2.8%
Someone didn’t fact check.
I’ve determined no one ever looks at the graphs. I’ve also seen several graphs lately that make no sense.
Mom warned us about teevee. Actors with scripts, not reality.
Now, video games, you toob, online “friends” and “news”, funded by drug manufacturers.
Thank God for sites that have to be found and shared. We’re searching, not playing along.
Back in the ’50s/’60s, the TV was called the ‘idiot box’ … and for good reason.
The only ‘advance’ we’ve made since then is to make them smaller and much, much more ubiquitous …
SSDD …
I can tell you what happened to approximately 30% of the mentally ill once they closed the “insane asylums”…they warehoused them in the prison systems. Another 30% live on the streets and the balance when into politics.
HISTORIANS WILL BE BAFFLED BY THE PURPOSEFUL IMPLOSION OF OUR EMPIRE – I don’t normally cuss –
but HELL I don’t even understand it now let alone down the road!
Mikki Willis on Brighteon Broadcast News- a newly AWAKE Hollywood person – that is AWAKE not WOKE – SAID THIS PAST WEEK IT IS LIKE WE ARE UNDER HYPNOSIS, I have heard the words used over the past 10 years – we are drugged, we are asleep, we have normalcy bias, we are under a spell, or demonic oppression. It seems, to me, to be all of the above. As a born again Christian – I put the most credence into the spiritual realm. We are certainly in the beginning phase of judgment. And I say to the Lord – whatever You need to do – I am with you. Sadly the history of mankind generally indicates the only way to get mankind’s attention is with judgment and massive problems. I may not like any of the judgment – BUT LORD DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE – as it will result in the most people possible coming to know Your son – THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! as Kathryn Kuhlman said so many decades ago – THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD IS THE SALVATION OF A LOST SOUL. That has never changed!
Romans 5:8 KJB… “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Rotten Reagan did away with Mental Asylums, he and Nixon gave our jobs away to China. He was a stooge of the NWO, like all of them. Our Nation and world is controlled by these Luciferin slime. Most people are sheep and easily controlled. It is only going to get worse the Bible and Orwell warns us. I for one can see the writing on the wall. But thank God the Messiah Jesus is coming back before they destroy all flesh! He will completely destroy them! YEEPEE!!!
And how the people themselves instituted their own demise.
Politically, we shit where we ate.