The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Why Most People Are Fighting Yesterday’s Battle
Mike Cernovich, social media impresario who blocked me on X, is taking victory laps.
And he should. The man practically single-handedly kicked off Jeffrey Epstein’s downfall.
Calling out BS is great. It makes you feel good. It gets you followers. It creates the illusion of progress.
And a Dopamine hit for sure.
But that’s all it will do.
Here’s what most people don’t realize: you’re mistaking the tree for the forest.
Just because you cut one tree down, doesn’t mean the evil forest will disappear,
Wealthy people will congregate and plot. It’s a tale as old as time. Adam Smith, the most respected economist and arch-enemy of Marx, famously argued that when people of the same trade meet, even for entertainment, the conversation often turns into a conspiracy to raise prices.
(By the way, I read the entire book of The Wealth of Nations. No Google search was necessary to connect the dots. I like ploughing through unknown territory, thank you, Robert Frost.)
In The Wealth of Nations, he warned that such gatherings, including guilds or similar professional organizations, restrict free competition and harm consumers, though he noted such meetings cannot be prevented by law without violating liberty.
So what did Cernovich and all the back-slapping politicians do?
They just moved the party offshore. To unregulated locales.
Most likely to the UAE or Qatar, which has popped out of nowhere to play a part in geopolitics. It was only yesterday when the UAE and KSA were in a low-level war with them. Now they’re diplomats. Qatar even hosted the World Cup.
And as I’ve written before: when there’s a king and no checks and balances, anything goes.
The Infrastructure Survives the Individual
Remember that Liam Hemsworth/Vince Vaughn movie—Arkansas? (
Probably not, it was released during the height of Covid, and it was an indie movie. Yet this movie MUST be seen. It’s not only entertaining from beginning to end, but it also shows how demand must be met with supply, no matter who it is.
(Notice, out of all the movies I pick, and for my mone,y the most relevant is aptly titled the state that Clinton is from)
The movie traces Hemsworth's growth from a low-level drug dealer to becoming the boss through unforeseen circumstances. The opposite of Scarface. The infrastructure survives the individual.
Here is the final scene with Spanish subtitles for my Spanish readers:
This is the pattern most people miss.
They get obsessed with personalities.
And exposing individual villains.
But what happens?
The role gets recast. We get a sequel.
Epstein falls. The operations don’t stop
They migrate.
The networks don’t dissolve
They relocate.
The power structures don’t crumble; they adapt.
Ask yourself whether these questions are relevant.
To prove a Zionist conspiracy?
To confirm that Trump is despicable?
To say “I told you so” about Bill Gates and COVID?
If this is how you get your rocks off, great.
But in the great words of the great comedian Steve Harvey
Oh, but we must fight evil
No question.
I may not like Cernovich for blocking a fan, and yet he turned my health around by recommending Magnesium and Alexander Cortes
I just argue with the approach and back-slapping.
When you attack power, another will arise.
You have to adjust the checks and balances to prevent this from ever happening again.
What I see now is that the big conflict between the two political parties is one party wanting to return to the politics of the 1800s and early 1900s, while the other wants to adopt a more European model.
What This Means For Your Portfolio
This isn’t just philosophical naval-gazing. There is plenty in Florida, and you don’t need to be on Substack for that.
This has direct investment implications.
When you understand that power structures persist beyond individuals, you stop trading on personalities and start trading on infrastructure.
You don’t bet on who wins an election. You bet on which systems expand regardless of who’s in charge.
You don’t try to time the “fall” of corrupt institutions. You identify which industries benefit from institutional failure.
You don’t chase the headline. You read what the headline means for capital flows.
This is what the software I’m testing does. It doesn’t tell you “Epstein bad” or “Trump tweets this.”
It tells you: “Given this configuration of headlines, here’s what’s actually moving.”
That’s why it tends to capture trends well. And better than a moving average.
Because I wasn’t reading the surface story.
I was reading the structural implications.
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While everyone else is getting dopamine hits from “exposing” the villain of the week, you’re watching capital flows reroute themselves around institutional failures.
Day 2 of beta. The software went 3/3 from the video demonstration.
If you want to see how headline interpretation translates to actual positioning—not just ideological point-scoring—come chat with me.
But understand what you’re signing up for:
This isn’t about feeling smart for calling out bad guys.
This is about reading the architecture while everyone else watches the actors.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Are you going to keep fighting the last war, or are you going to position yourself for the one that’s already started?
Havent you seen the war in Ukraine? Russian soldiers laid down their arms to robots.
New wars will be fought with new technology and so will how people invest.
Have a great day,
Eric