One of the primary reasons that Westerners are so unhappy today is that they marry the country they happen to currently live in.

If this were 40 years ago, that might be fine. But in the modern era and in the middle of a collapsing Western world, this is a terribly stupid and chaotic idea.

I do something very different, and I’ve been talking about this for many years now. Whenever I move to a country and settle there as a living flag, I never marry that country. Instead, I date that country.

You know the difference between marriage and dating. In marriage, you have to make everything work. If something doesn’t work, you do your best to correct it because you don’t want the catastrophic option of getting a divorce or having to murder your spouse.

When you date someone, if serious problems come up, no problem, you just leave. (That’s of course assuming you don’t have oneitis, but that’s a topic for another time.)

Dating someone is a lot safer than marrying someone.

If you marry someone, you have a long-term vested interest in what that person does or does not do.

As I’ve talked about in my books and blogs, the challenge with that is if that person changes at any point in the next 57 years, even if it’s not your fault, and even if you had nothing to do with that change, you are basically fucked.

Whereas if you’re dating someone, you can spend a little time correcting it if you want, but if it’s a serious problem and you get nowhere with it, you just end the relationship and move on to someone else.

To be clear, I am not talking here about real marriage to a woman or actually dating a woman. I’ve been married for almost ten years (nonmonogamously, of course, OLTR Marriage), and I think it’s great, and I love my wife.

But we’re talking about countries here, not women.

Marrying a country is even worse than marrying a woman because if you’re married to a woman, you can make the argument that you have some control over what she does.

But shit, if you marry a country, particularly a large, powerful, bloated, collapsing Western country, you have literally zero control over what that country does, the stupid shit it engages in, and its long-term future.

All you can do is sit around, cross your fingers, freak out, and complain on Twitter. (And of course, vote in stupid Presidential elections that give you a slight emotional charge for a few weeks but don’t change a fucking thing, something Americans in particular still haven’t figured out.)

I’ll be very specific. Here’s the difference between me and the majority of you reading these words.

I live in Dubai and Paraguay. As I type this article, I am sitting comfortably in Paraguay, taking in the clean, fresh air and admiring the view after arriving a few days ago from Dubai.

You probably live in the Collapsing USA, Cuckoo Canada, Suicidal Europe, or somewhere similar. God help you.

Unlike you, I’m not married to where I live.

This means I am not married to Dubai nor Paraguay.

I love Dubai and Paraguay, but if they really piss me off or do something I don’t like, within 60 days at the very most, I will be gone. I will move out of the country and never return (except perhaps to briefly visit my women there, maybe).

I can do that because:

1. I’m location-independent, with 100% location-independnet income.

2. I have a full Five Flags setup (multiple permanent residences, bank accounts in multiple countries, etc)

3. I don’t emotionally marry any country, even if I really love it.

Does that mean I dislike Dubai or Paraguay? Not at all. I love these two countries.

Dubai and Paraguay are fantastic countries to date. They’re not perfect because no country is, but these two countries are totally hot, have long blonde hair, big boobs, they’re great in bed, and they treat you right.

Unlike the Collapsing USA, who is an angry, overweight bitch who screams at you all day and starts useless fights with everyone.

Or Cuckoo Canada, who is completely crazy and constantly threatens you with a butcher knife while telling you that you’re the problem.

Or Suicidal Europe, a disgusting old lady who spends all of her time having condomless sex with other men, getting STDs and diseases, constantly getting beaten up, and who then calls you a racist when you tell her what she’s doing is probably not a good idea.

So I absolutely love my two homes…

…but because I’m not married to these two countries, I can bail the fuck out with minimal emotional fuss whenever I want if there’s ever any serious problem.

Now let’s take you, or at least statistically you. (I realize not all of you are like this and you are my brothers; well done.) Let’s say you live in the Collapsing USA.

If you’re like most modern-day Americans, left or right, that means that you are likely married to the United States. (Again, God help you.)

Because you are married to the United States instead of dating the United States, you have a massive vested interest in anything the United States does right or wrong.

If anything goes wrong (and shit goes wrong almost every week), you completely lose your mind and freak out, scream on the internet, try to get people to vote for certain people, vote in useless elections, and so on.

If the person you’re trying to elect loses an election, you’re depressed for six months and your life totally sucks.

If the person you’re trying to elect wins the election, then you are orgasmic for several months, only to become pissed off, disappointed, or confused when that person continues to fuck up the country you’re married to. (I’m looking at you, Trump supporters. But, to be fair, Obama supporters were in the same category.)

It never occurs to you to actually leave the country because you’re the beta male oneitis husband married to the bitchy dominant wife who screams at you all day and never has sex with you. You just continue to argue with her and take her abuse and it never occurs to you to just divorce her ass and leave.

In other words, because you’re married to the Collapsing USA or Cuckoo Canada or Junkyard Germany or Breakdown Britain or Authoritarian Australia or wherever, you’re never really happy.

You’re just connected at the hip to this big, horrible, stupid, collapsing empire, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

At least that’s what you think, because you’re married to your country instead of just dating it.

And let me state for the record, as I always do, that if you hate Dubai or hate Paraguay, there are at least 22 other countries that are really great places to live, that are much less bad than your collapsing Western country, and I’m sure you would like at least one of them.

So disliking my two countries of choice isn’t an excuse, pal. Sorry.

If you follow the new model of dating where you live and stick with that model for the rest of your life, not only will you be safer and live a better life, but you will be happier long-term, just like me.

First, I’m doing a livestream (yes, it will be me) this Thursday at 1 PM EST regarding these graphic novels, my writing process, plus stuff about sci-fi and fantasy in the modern era, and a whole bunch of other really cool nerd shit that you’ll really like if you’re into that kind of thing.

Full Q&A also. It’s going to be so fucking fun, I can’t wait.

Link to the livestream is here: https://vimeo.com/event/5873385 so mark your calendar. I’m doing it on Vimeo instead of YouTube to keep things separate.

(And if you want to be notified of these events regarding my new comic books / graphic novels, go here and join the list.)

Now, I’ll talk about how writing graphic novels is different than writing a novel or short stories, which is what I’m more accustomed to.

One of the advantages of writing a graphic novel series is that I can tell story elements through the visuals in ways I can’t with a novel.

For example, in the Black Dragon and Pink Firefly graphic novels (we’re going to release them in early May), the character of Pink Firefly looks like this:

She has big eyes like a Disney character or princess to denote innocence. She has hair down to her heels to denote hyper-femininity. She has larger-than-average breasts to denote sexuality, but she has skinny legs, a skinny waist, and a smaller butt to indicate that perhaps she’s not the kind of woman you’d want to have five children with.

The second most important female character, at least in the first two or three graphic novels of the story, is Baby Zorra. She is very different from Pink Firefly in both personality and bearing, so she has to look different to reflect this.

She has blonde hair like Pink Firefly (because Black Dragon is loosely based on me so he likes blondes), but that’s where the similarities end.

Baby Zorra has boobs, but not the big boobs that Pink Firefly has. Baby Zorra is much shorter (elves in this world are much smaller than humans) and has very large hips, thighs, and butt.

Baby Zorra is a much more confident character than Pink Firefly, so her body is more sturdy-looking and solid, despite the fact that she’s short. She has golden eyes with stars inside them that are more intense and less inviting than Pink Firefly’s innocent, large brown eyes, again denoting an edge to her that Pink Firefly doesn’t have.

For consistency reasons, I have to make sure that Baby Zorra’s body and eyes always look like this all the time, even when she has moments of sadness or weakness, like here:

Or when she isn’t doing something very exciting, like here:

The difference in their two bodies is more apparent when you see them together in the same shot, like here:

If I do my job as the writer of these stories, I can make you view certain characters in certain ways, positively or negatively, just from their appearance alone.

I can also ensure that the female characters, even if they’re all attractive, have very distinctive-looking faces and bodies.

I do that so as to appeal to all types of men regardless of what “type” they’re attracted to, since this is a graphic novel series written for men.

For example, here’s an example of a third woman who looks and acts nothing like Pink Firefly or Baby Zorra:

This is Olyndris, and once again, every aspect of her look is there for specific reasons. The smartass facial expressions, the sexy outfit, the freckles on her face, the perky and higher boobs, all of these things are there to make you view her a certain way, even if she never had any dialogue.

So that’s how I can make you like someone or view someone in a certain way, but what if I want you to dislike someone?

Here’s an example of how I can do that with visuals:

Other than the bat, there are three characters in this image. All three of them get equal focus. All three of them look tough and intimidating. But all three of them are not the same.

Two of these characters look pretty cool, but one of them looks a little off.

Which ones are which, do you think?

If I did my job correctly, you should think the woman in the middle looks pretty cool, and the guy with the red armor on the right also looks pretty cool. The guy on the left wearing the purple outfit looks a little weird, perhaps even dumb.

He looks… off. He almost looks naked.

That’s by design.

This might be a minor spoiler, but the guy in the purple outfit I want the reader to dislike strongly over the course of his character arc. I can’t tell you why right now; you’ll see why when you read the story.

Whereas the other two characters I want you to think are pretty cool, even though they are both antagonists (or are they?).

(FYI, this is a rough draft panel, so when you see it in the graphic novel, it’s actually going to look even better because there are a few mistakes in there that will be fixed by then.)

Throughout the course of the story (and it’s a very large story), I want you to like certain characters, dislike certain characters, and be confused about other characters. I can do this using visuals in ways I can’t while writing a novel.

There are times I want you to think antagonists are cool even though they’re antagonists. But there will be other times when I want you to think antagonists are horrible and make you want them to die.

I’m not saying I can’t make characters likable or unlikable in a novel or short story. Of course I can.

I’m saying that I have this extra tool of visual imagery to reinforce what you believe a character is or should be.

I can also convey other character traits with minimal dialogue, like here (ignore the dialogue and just look at the image first):

And here with no dialogue whatsoever:

What do you think the woman in white (Sylwen) is thinking as she looks at the queen? Now look at Black Dragon’s facial expression. What do you think he’s thinking?

Yeah.

The character of Black Dragon isn’t immune to this visual storytelling either. In his armor, he looks cool and tough, but when he takes his armor off, like in this scene when he’s just had sex with Pink Firefly, he looks like this:

He doesn’t have a six-pack or flat stomach like other comic book heroes do. He’s got a chubby belly that he likes to scratch as he walks around his other companions while almost naked, not giving a fuck.

He’s outcome independent all over the place, again, even if he had no dialogue.

More articles on my writing and design process are coming soon. I love this stuff so much.

If you want a lot more detail, you can join us for the livestream on Thursday.

Today, in the middle of a collapsing left-wing empire, you live in an era that is the most legally dangerous in which a man can have a child.

Therefore, if you want to have children, you need to give some serious thought to how you are going about doing it.

Having children is a highly complex topic and I’m only going to scratch the surface here in this article. Instead, you can consider this article as a summary of other points I’ve made in other places, gathered together in one convenient spot

The first and most important reality is this…

If you intend on having children and you stupidly intend on living in the collapsing Western world for the rest of your life (meaning the United States, Canada, Western Europe, most of Eastern Europe, Australia, or New Zealand), then you must be a multi-millionaire and/or have a very high six-figure income minimally, or else you’re making an extremely reckless and stupid decision.

As I’ve discussed in great detail in my books and blogs, having children in the modern-day Western world is one of the most expensive things you can do in your entire life, assuming you want to raise them correctly.

(Of course, if you’re evil and you don’t give a shit about your children and don’t mind if they are raised incorrectly and turn out to be insane, screwed-up adults, then I guess do whatever you want. But I’m operating under the assumption that you’re a good father and you want what’s best for your kids.)

This means that if you intend on staying in the collapsing Western world for the rest of your life, which in my opinion means you’re completely insane but that’s a topic for another time, then you need to make a lot of money.

And you need to earn this money before you make any woman pregnant, not after.

In addition, if you have a child in the Western world with another Western woman, you need to get a parenting plan written up, signed, notarized, and filed at your local courthouse, again, before you get anyone pregnant.

In some jurisdictions, these are enforceable; in others, they are not, but that complexity is outside of the scope of this article

So obviously, if you have children with a Western woman living in the Western world, not only will it be ridiculously expensive but you will also incur multiple massive legal risks that I don’t need to enumerate here because you can read about them in detail on any red pill content.

This means that the safest way to have children in the modern era is very simple: have children with non-Western women who live in non-Western countries.

This provides you with several benefits.

1. It’s going to be far less expensive to raise those kids properly.

2. You incur virtually zero legal risk. For example, if you impregnate a woman who lives in Colombia and you’re an American, the Colombian government has no jurisdiction to force you to pay child support or whatever. Nor can the Colombian government go after your assets as an American in case of a breakup or divorce. (Especially if those assets are offshore from America!)

Note: I have said very clearly many times that you should financially support any children you bring into this world, and if you don’t, I consider you a complete asshole and an evil influence on our already collapsing planet. I’m just saying the government should have nothing to do with that decision and you should pay on your own.

3. You are likely to encounter a woman who is more excited about being a mother and raising children than you are in the collapsing West.

I realize I’m generalizing here about modern-day Western women; there are always exceptions to every rule, but the generalities are true.

Although I’m about to turn 54 years old, I plan on living at least another 50 years, if not longer (barring the 35% probability of the entire human race being destroyed before then). I also plan on being young and spry during most of that time.

This means the odds are quite high that I will probably father more children at some point. I promise and guarantee that if I do, these will be children with non-Western women living in non-Western countries.

If you’re going to start to whine and complain that it’s more complicated to go abroad to find a good mother for your children, blah blah blah, let me remind you again of the two negatives of staying in your current collapsing Western country:

1. It’s going to be WAY more expensive to raise your kids.

2. The legal risks are going to be insane for you.

3. It’s going to be harder to find a woman who wants take the time and effort to be a mother.

It is actually easier and less problematic in the long term to go abroad to have children abroad than it is to stay in your collapsing Western country.

Let me repeat one last time that if you really want to impregnate an American woman living in America, or any other Western country, and that’s something you really want to do, then go right ahead. (My wife is an American, but we don’t have kids and never will.)

Just realize it’s going to cost a lot of money, so I hope you have a lot.

Also realize that your legal risks are extraordinarily high, and you shouldn’t be surprised if, at some point in the next several years, you’re in some kind of family court paying attorneys thousands of dollars fighting for the right to see your own children.

The beginning of the end of America as the sole economic superpower in the world was 9-11, George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the rise of China, all around 2001-2002.

I didn’t say this was the end of America’s economic power; I said it was the official beginning of the end.

The beginning of the end of America’s culture was around 2007, as I’ve discussed many times, when Hollywood and other American cultural centers lost the ability to regularly crank out high-quality movies, TV shows, comic books, novels, and video games. It’s also when left-wing wokeism started creeping in and everything started to become remakes and sequels of prior IPs.

But during all this time, America as an empire still prevailed. Its position as the sole superpower and most powerful empire in human history remained unrivaled and unchallenged.

Until now.

Now we have a new marker, this year, in 2026. Future historians will state that 2026 was the beginning of the end of America as an empire.

During this stupid Iranian conflict, numerous things have occurred that have never occurred before, since the 1940s when America achieved its true superpower status.

Here they are listed in no particular order.

1. During the conflict, the President of the United States, in this case, the man-child Trump, would state a deadline with huge consequences if the deadline was reached without some concession.

The deadline would come and go, and Iran would just give Trump the finger and do nothing.

Then the president would either extend the deadline or come up with a new deadline.

This happened over and over and over and over again. About six or seven times, I believe, in just a few weeks.

This is new. This has never happened before.

There have indeed been a few times where American presidents have set a deadline and then had to eat crow and extend the deadline. Obama was a big pussy and this happened to him once or twice.

But we have never seen some random little country give America the finger with no fear whatsoever, and then have the president of America scramble like a maniac six or seven times in a row, constantly extending deadlines to the point where news all over the world constantly says “another day, another deadline.”

The enemies of America just don’t fear America like they used to, even when they know a hair-trigger, irrational Alpha Male 1.0 like Trump is in charge.

Trump, and America by extension, has been made to look like fools with these constantly rotating deadlines.

2. America’s military hardware has had several obvious and public incidents where it didn’t function as advertised.

The aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is the strongest, greatest, highest-tech, and most powerful aircraft carrier ever designed by humankind. It was pumped up as some badass thing that could win entire wars on its own.

However, during the conflict, a little fire occurred in the kitchen. They had to turn the entire goddamn thing around and send it back to Europe for several weeks to get it repaired before they could send it back into battle, all because of some little fire in the kitchen.

Now, yes, if you’re a mechanic or engineer, you’re probably going to state that this had to happen because of blah blah blah. None of that is relevant.

What’s relevant is how it looks to the world. It makes America look completely and utterly pathetic.

An overblown paper tiger that’s scary just for show, with a bunch of overly technological, outdated shit built to fight World War II or the Cold War that was over decades ago.

Again, this is new. This has never happened before.

3. Almost 100% of America’s allies refused to help, even when America begged them.

All of NATO didn’t do shit. Australia, South Korea, Japan, and many other Asian allies offered no help to America whatsoever, even when Trump went begging for it.

So that’s bad on top of bad:

1. The president had to beg other countries for help, which is a terrible look.

2. 99% of the countries gave him the finger and refused to help him.

The only country helping America in this conflict is the country that runs the American government, which is Israel. Other than that, America is completely on its own. The rest of the world has told it to fuck off.

I have never seen this happen. During the first and second Gulf Wars, there were about 110 countries that were allied with America before they went in.

This does not bode well for America’s position as the world’s superpower and largest empire.

4. This is the biggest one of them all. America’s (really Israel’s) conflict completely fucked up the entire planet Earth, and America can’t fix it.

The Straight of Hormuz is one of the top three most important choke points in the entire planet, along with the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. America’s dumbass war has completely fucked that up for the entire world.

More importantly, America can’t fix it no matter what it tries. It tried negotiations, it tried massive bombings, it tried alliances. Nothing has worked. To this very day, the Straight of Hormuz is still closed, threatening the resources of almost 50% of the entire world.

America, once powerful and feared, can’t fix a simple problem of one little shithead country giving it the finger and opening up that straight.

So far, Iran has won.

Not only does it show America’s incompetence in getting shit done, but it’s also, once again, a very bad look for America as the world looks on.

So we have officially entered into the next phase of American collapse, the beginning of the end of the American empire, which I am confident future historians will state was in 2026 (if not sooner).

I’m not sure how many warning signals you need to leave the Collapsing USA if you still live there.

Long story short, there is a there is a 35% chance humanity will be wiped out by AI or human assholes using AI, and there is a 65% chance, if humanity doesn’t get wiped out, that humanity will experience the Ten Years of Brutality I described in my book Freedom Fortress.

Go read that article if you have no idea what I’m talking about. Better yet, read Freedom Fortress.

Now I’m going to make some statements that are the 100% truth, as crazy as they may sound.

1. I am 100% okay, spiritually and emotionally, with the 35% possibility of myself, everyone I know and love, and humanity being completely destroyed in the next few decades. I don’t want it to happen and I really hope it doesn’t. But if it does, I’m 100% okay with it.

2. I am 100% okay, spiritually and emotionally, if humanity doesn’t get destroyed but if most or all of the entire planet Earth falls into deep chaos (caused by AI and/or other factors) lasting a decade or more, even if I am personally, negatively affected by this in a very serious way. (To be fair, this is unlikely to affect me in this way because of my five flags, location-independent businesses, nonmonogamy, online brand, and finances, but I’m saying if it really fucks me up, I’m 100% okay with it, even though, again, I don’t want it to happen.)

To be clear, these two views apply to only me. They most definitely do not apply to most of my friends, close co-workers, family, and women in my life. Many of these people are quite terrified about these things and I know most people reading these words probably are also.

I will also state for the record that I absolutely did not feel this way as short as five years ago, and that for most of my life, I have indeed been concerned/worried/stressed about these things just like everyone else.

These views are something new in my life as part of my spiritual awakening and transition to a more self-actualized life over the past year and a half.

I will also be very clear in that I do not want to die through any causes I have control over. It would make me extremely upset if I died because I didn’t manage my health correctly, or because I violated the 2% rule, or because I did something stupid.

I’m just saying here that if I died only because all humanity died with me at the same time due to circumstances completely beyond my control, I’m 100% okay with that particular scenario.

To summarize and dramatically oversimplify why I feel this way, here are the reasons:

1. I know WHO I am. I am Caleb Jones, someone who has been placed on this Earth to teach others, especially men, how to live a freer, more protected, and happier long-term life within an insane, mostly left-wing (that includes Trump supporters!) collapsing civilization during late-stage capitalism, early-stage cyberpunk, and early-stage idocracy.

2. More importantly, I know WHAT I am. I am actually not Caleb Jones. I’m not even human. That’s just a temporary construct I happen to be riding at the moment. Instead, I am an immortal, indestructible, immensely powerful, god-like part of the universe, a wave in the ocean, a sunbeam part of the sun, a whirlpool in the river, who is part of a vast and powerful universe temporarily experiencing that universe as this construct called a “human” for a hundred or so years before I go back to the core what what I truly am.

3. I know what my PURPOSE is. My purpose is to experience the most amount of freedom a human can experience in this world, internationally, logistically, financially, sexually, romantically, physically, and in my day-to-day life. I am supposed to absorb all of these experiences and then pass them to a small, select group of others so that they can replicate them for themselves. This is literally why I was grown by the universe within the temporary construct of this human body and mind.

4. I know what my MISSION is. I’ve talked about this a hell of a lot in my books, videos, and blogs. My personal Mission is (and don’t copy this please, because it won’t make you happy; Missions are unique to the individual): As a man who is the ideal example of long-term masculine happiness, financially, in business, with physical health, and with relationships, I will continue to help one million men achieve and maintain a life of long-term consistent happiness. From this, and from businesses that help both men and companies, I have functionally unlimited wealth to do whatever I want and explore the entire world.

So if you determine that there’s decent odds you and everyone else might get killed in the next few years, or something similarly bad, and that freaks you out, this means you haven’t yet figured out who you are, what you are, what your purpose is, and what your Mission is.

When/if you get those four things 100% formulated and dialed, you really won’t give a shit.

It’s outcome independence on steroids. And it’s a pretty nice place to be.

The problem is figuring out these four things is hard. It takes time. You've got to put your fucking phone down, sit down quietly, stare out a window, and THINK.

You need to write on a notepad. You need to process. You need to reflect.

And it’s possible you need to do these things for a long time, perhaps months, before you really get somewhere.

The challenge is that few people today have the patience, intelligence, or attention span to do those simple things.

Back in the 1980s, people could do things like that, and did. But today, if you tell someone to put their phone in another room, go sit in a comfortable chair, look out a window, and think about their life for 45 minutes, they’ll have a god damn panic attack just thinking about it. “I CAN’T DO THAT! BECAUSE… !”

This is why most of the world, as I’ve been saying for about seven years now, is going to have a very rough time over the next 20-30 years as this new dark age continues.

It’s not just that they’ll suffer, which they will, but it’s also that they are not emotionally prepared for what’s coming… and indeed what is already happening.

Honestly, the biggest thing I won’t like about this going forward is not how I’ll handle it (because I’m okay) but how some of my loved ones will handle it. They’re not as self-aware or as spiritually enlightened as I am (and I’m not saying I’m perfect because I’m not), and they’re going to suffer similarly to most normal people.

I have a lot more content coming this year on how to determine those four things for yourself (who you are, what you are, purpose, and Mission). I hope they will be useful to you.

But I’m warning you, they’re not going to be easy.

But hey, what’s the alternative?

I recently posted something on social media talking about how in the future, men in their twenties will be happily hooking up with women in their seventies or eighties because in our lifetimes, women that old will look like hot 40-year-old milfs.

I mentioned in a brief phrase that this was provided “the human race lasted that long, and there’s a 35% chance it won’t”.

I got more comments on that statement than I did on the actual topic of the post. “WHAT?!? CALEB WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT IS THIS BASED ON?”

So I shall explain.

In my book Freedom Fortress and in several articles on my blogs, I have stated for several years now that I roughly estimated the odds of 30% that AI will eventually destroy all humans.

Not this year or next year, but eventually. 20 years or so?

I later discovered this 30% estimate was shared by many AI experts who know much more about AI than I do, including Elon Musk, so I’m in good company.

Then I posted an updated article on my Substack last year that I had officially revised my 30% figure up to 35% because of the behaviors I saw AI exhibiting, as well as some other factors.

So to be clear, here is my prediction:

Over the next 20 years (or so), we have an approximately 35% chance of being completely destroyed by AI or by asshole humans using AI.

“Asshole humans using AI” would be things like:

• Terrorists, governments, or psychos creating a super-virus, using AI, that spreads instantly and kills you within 10 minutes. They would release it either on purpose or by accident, like with Covid.

• Terrorists, governments, or psychos creating a nanotech weapon that instantly ate all human flesh while leaving plants and animals alone.

• Governments using AI-enabled weapons of mass destruction to destroy the planet or causing a major nuclear exchange.

That’s one of the reasons why the threat is 35% instead of something like 10%. It’s not just AI turning into Skynet and killing us all. An equivalent or even greater risk is asshole humans using AI (on purpose or by accident) to kill us all.

Here are the risk factors, listed in no particular order.

1. The vast majority of AI companies are not taking the time and effort to install and utilize real safeguards. They’re going as fast as they can, using the “What about China?” or “What about our competitors?” excuses.

2. AI has already clearly demonstrated, numerous times, that it is capable of immoral and even evil acts, completely on its own.

3. Highly intelligent psychopaths, Oppenheimer and Fauci-types, have already proven time and again throughout history that they don’t care if they take worldwide destruction-level risks with their science. Austic billionaire oddballs like Sam Altman and Peter Thiel are absolutely, 100% in that category.

4. Collapsing Western governments all over the planet, with the USA at the top of that list, are currently the most irrational, reckless, and stupid they have ever been in all of Western history. That’s not my opinion; that’s an objective statement of fact. And as I keep saying (and I keep getting right), they’re going to get worse, not better.

5. Religious fanaticism is still going strong in the West and the East, producing even more irrational actors. (Read the recent news about what American military leaders told their troops about Trump issuing the end of the world and the coming of Jesus Christ due to the Iran war. Yeah.)

Add all of that shit up, I get about 35% chance we have around 20 years or less before we’re all gone, and again, a lot of people smarter than me agree with this figure.

That being said, that still means the odds are good (65%) that this won’t happen. Resolutions to events like the Cuban Missile Crisis show that human beings are very clever, want to survive, and are capable of some pretty impressive things.

Like Sean Connery said in The Hunt for Red October, “I give our chances one in three”. Well, I give our chances two in three. That’s deeply uncomfortable, but not horrible.

The bigger problem is that if we don’t all die, we enter into the Ten Years of Brutality I talked about in Freedom Fortress, where literally hundreds of millions of people can’t work, lose their jobs, lose their companies, and can’t pay their bills, until AI or society figures out a solution, which will take a long time, if ever.

(And no, left-wingers, UBI won’t work. The math doesn’t pan out. Do your own research and you’ll see.)

That’s going to be a fucking mess.

So, 35% chance we’ll all be dead, and a 65% we’re in for some massive problems the human race has never experienced before.

The solution: You need to know what you are, who you are, and your purpose and Mission in life. Spirituality + meaning and purpose. Then you’re covered no matter what happens (I know I am).

More on that later.