This begins with a huge THANK YOU to everyone who kept the faith and remained a supporter of this site during my too-long absence.
The good news is that I am now the sole owner of the website and all its related activities which means I’m back!!
Thanks to you, the many subscribers and supporters, Peak Prosperity is going to be better than ever.
With a few changes…but we’ll get to those down below.
Several things emerged from my mini-sabbatical, not least of which was observing the critical thinking and careful parsing of ideas that was on full display here at Peak Prosperity in my near complete absence.
I had several ‘proud founder’ moments while reading through some truly amazing comments that kept the site going in my absence. This made me realize the degree to which I had either managed to shape or attract people with similar thought processes and passions. It’s worth noting that what we have here in our community is rare (practically to the point of being unique) and worthy of both preserving and expanding.
Coming Changes to this Site
So let’s begin with what isn’t changing. I will still be researching and communicating about all the things that I did in the past; Covid, vaccines, various treatments, and other related news. Ditto for energy and oil issues, as well as alternative energy sources. Ecology and financial matters too. Systemic injustice and the potential for systemic cascading failures. You know, all that fun stuff!However, I am going to begin focusing even more on solutions especially including big, gigantic solutions such as global scale alternative energy (e.g. ‘green hydrogen’) and other necessary gigantic infrastructure plays that could help provide a useful bridge to the future.
The site will also have to respond to some new conditions. The world we live in has gone even more nuts than it already was, which was considerable. Censorship is now a very real weapon and it’s been operationalized across the population.
Your own fellow citizens are now clamoring for even greater penalties for thought crimes, such as your failure to comply with various cultural fads and/or any unwillingness to participate in untested medical experiments.
Many of you have expressed to me real shock and even horror at the change that’s happened in your (former) friends, neighbors, and even family members. Whatever has programmed them has done a spectacularly good job of it and we should expect that to continue and even ‘improve’ in the future.
In other words, there’s a great cultural push to suspend critical thinking and just go along with whatever narratives are being promoted by…well, we don’t actually know who is behind all this.
We’ll have to adapt in response.
When I began all this roughly 14 years ago, I could say whatever I wanted and not worry about being deplatformed or worse. Now? Yes, it’s a real concern.
Confidentiality
Accordingly, we’re going to have to limit some of our public conversations to avoid/evade the censors’ prying eyes and fragile perspectives. But here behind the paywall? I will continue to tell you everything I think or suspect.I can only ask that you honor my request to not convey or copy/paste any of my or other’s words from here, behind the paywall, out into public. Your own ideas and words, of course, do what you will with those. The request here is for confidentiality.
So this site is going to have to adjust. What follows is by no means, a complete list of changes but it will set the direction and tone so you can know what to expect going forward.
Specific & Immediate Site Changes:
- No more advertising. Your privacy is more important than a few extra advertising dollars. While we may elect to participate with a few select sponsors over time, we are ejecting the creepy, ultra-invasive big tech advertisers. I don’t like their cookies and other tracking devices that feed your habits and preferences back into a murky thicket of invasive artificial intelligence robots. Big Tech has failed us with their overt censorship in favor of big pharma. They have cost lives. They could have easily afforded to hire competent doctors to vet content and decided against that going with defective censorship that invariably favored entrenched interests and their money over lives and health. I neither forgive nor forget easily such massive failures. So big tech and all their creepiness is ejected. Goodbye and good riddance.
- I am investing back into the business in a big way, unlike anything in Peak Prosperity’s history.
- There’s a new team that’s been hired and will soon be announced, and they are all amazing people and rock stars. The hardest part of the hiring process for me were all the other stupendously great applicants that we cannot yet hire.
- The site is going to be completely rebuilt. I share your same frustrations over how it doesn’t work as well as it should. Valuable comments and content get easily lost. It’s hard to navigate and even to find things that were seemingly just there yesterday. So we’re going to be rebuilding the whole thing and we’re going to ask those of you who are inclined to help us with requirements and beta testing.
- Public vs. Private. As I mentioned above, we’re going to have to figure out where and how to draw the line between what appears out in public and what remains safely tucked behind the paywall here. This will undoubtedly shift over time. Hopefully in a more favorable and open direction, but perhaps the other direction. We’ll need everybody to help us work through this.
- Content “boxes” on the front page. Our longer-term goal is to reform and rebuild the website to make it faster, more streamlined, and far easier to navigate and find new and old content alike. Until that larger rebuild, you will see some specific changes to the front page as we move some of the current content boxers about, delete a few, and then add one or two new ones back.
What Is Wealthion and What is its Relationship to Peak Prosperity?
Wealthion is a financial service solicitorship. It offers financial content and is not associated with Peak Prosperity in any way financially, or with respect to content or offerings. Adam Taggart has taken the Greylock side of the business and joined up with GBI to run that as an independent offering.I will have no financial interest in Wealthion, no say in how Adam goes about creating content, and I have no other involvement or ties to declare. I am not a part of Wealthion in any capacity whatsoever.
The same is true in reverse for Adam Taggart and this site, Peak Prosperity.
Wealthion does have the right to market and post content to this site and its related channels for a period of three months from May 12th, 2021 (i.e. until August 12th, 2021).
You may receive emails from Wealthion as a consequence of having signed up here, but you have the right to subscribe or unsubscribe at any time from either here or there independently. The one won’t affect the other.
This is the first and only time in Peak Prosperity’s entire history that your email will have been used by an affiliate or other third party. I am really very much against such practices and you have my assurances that I will guard your email jealously and use it sparingly to keep you informed about things happening here.
Bottom Line
I’m back and I’m in charge.I have huge plans to reach more people and deliver even better content. I am going to be going flat-out for the next year to both rebuild this site and keep delivering new content.
During this next period of time, I am requesting – no imploring you – to weigh in and make your voice heard.
- What sort of content do you most want me to cover?
- What features do you wish/hope the new website will have?
- Who would you like me to interview?
- What can we do to improve your experience here and to help foster a deeper sense of participation and community involvement?
My Spidey Senses – Important!
As I was talking with our new core team the other day, I realized that I had to confess something to them. It’s true I research the heck out of everything, but it’s equally true that I make a lot of big decisions based on my hunches. Sometimes I don’t even know what the hunch is.Example 1: In August of 2019 I suddenly got the overwhelming urge to begin hunting for property to buy. I mean like OCD levels of focus. Every day checking Zillow, LandForSale.com, ForSaleByOwner, and several other listing spots.
I kept extensive documentation on the properties that made the first cut. I knew them all. Evie and I even hosted a “Plan B” meeting at our home in Greenfield MA that September to see if maybe there were others who’d like to go in on such a larger property.
We visited dozens of properties in several states. Back and forth, every day we kept searching and looking. Eventually that resulted in us managing to close on our current property in Chester MA which, it should be said, was exceptional timing.
Such properties are exceedingly difficult to come by now. As in, nearly impossible, or simply much, much more expensive.
I can’t tell you exactly what lit that fire. Did I know Covid was coming? No, of course not. Could I have given you a rational basis for predicting that a huge sea-change in city vs. rural preferences was coming? No, again of course not.
But it was absolutely the right decision to make, and I’ve learned to trust that part of myself over the years.
Example 2: I bought a sawmill. By march of 2020 I suddenly decided I needed a sawmill. Well, this project did. I researched and then pulled the trigger on a pretty expensive purchase (by my standards) for a sawmill.
Sure, I’ve built things in the past, and was even a framing carpenter through and right after getting my bachelor’s degree. And, yes, there’s quite a lot of projects to be done on a farm that require wood, but there really wasn’t a good, rational decision that made economic sense sitting under that sudden urge to get a sawmill.
But I did, and I am glad about that! If you were to try and buy one today they aren’t shipping for another 3-4 months:
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Again, did I know back in March that a hyper explosion in lumber prices was coming? No, I did not. Could I foresee tightness in the sawmill supply chain? Nope. I couldn’t.
But I had a strong sense that I really ought to get one, now, just in case.
This is how I tend to operate. I collect vast amounts of information – I read anywhere from 6-8 hours a day, the other 6-8 are spent working on the farm – but I tend to make big rapid decisions based on my gut.
I’ve learned to trust that intuition and I rarely second guess it. It’s not always right, but its win ratio is strong.
Why tell you all this? Because for reasons I cannot quite fully articulate I am as OCD/passionate today about building soil and planting gardens, fruit trees, vines and generally increasing the food abundance of our property as I was OCD/passionate to find it in the first place.
The good news is that Evie and I are doing really well in the soil-building department. The field lushness we’ve managed to achieve in a single year is … balming and satisfying.
Next, our experiment of killing off a 40 x 60-foot block of grass using a silage tarp is going equally well. The idea here was to figure out how to convert field to garden space without having to either till it or use any chemical methods.
Worked a charm!
Next into this space will go corn, squash, pumpkins, and many different types of flowers. Next to it we’re going to plant potatoes simply flung on the ground and crudely covered with leftover hay.
All experiments. All designed to see how quickly we can grow food. Why? I haven’t a clue, yet.
It’s just something my Spidey-senses are saying “do this now!” and so I am obeying. I wanted to let you know that in case that proves to be any sort of motivation on your end of things to accelerate planting (or expanding) a garden of your own.
Something you Can Do to Help
One of my favorite sayings, that came to me through my good friend Dave Houghton is “I might be wrong, but I’m not confused.”Look, I might be wrong, but this period of time truly feels like a critical moment for us all. Either we make new decisions and get it right, or we go down some very dark paths. As individual countries and as a species.
Which makes this an “all hands on deck” moment.
The request from all of us at Peak Prosperity is for you to help spread the word to anybody and everybody you know who could benefit from our work and is interested in helping to rescue the future.
We’re removing ads, especially the gold ads, to make this place more appealing to more people. Some people are turned off by the gold ads, I heard that and I get it. I agree. Now that I get to make the decision, those are gone as of now.
If you have any other suggestions that would make it easier for you to suggest this site to other people you know, please let us know right away.
Do you know five new people you could introduce to this site and its many works? My special request is that you do so whenever that makes the most sense to do.
Thanks Again!
Thank you again everyone who stuck by and supported this site during its transition to its current ownership structure.I hope to return your investment a hundred times over.
Together, along with the new team who I will be delighted to introduce to you soon, we’ll preserve and protect the best of what Peak Prosperity has always been. And we’ll grow and change it to accommodate both the Brave New World in which we live, and the many new members who will want an alternative to the medical nihilism of the establishment, the context-poor reporting of big media and the overt censorship of big tech.
Your faithful Information Scout and Chief of Community,
Chris Martenson, PhD
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://peakprosperity.com/a-special-thank-you-message-to-my-supporters/
