Aldo Rebelo

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American Alchemy with Jesse Michels · BREAKING: Brazil’s Defense Minister Says They’ve Had Alien Contact [Exclusive Interview] · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And what also begins to occur is a phenomenon that was called, by an American theologian, the corruption of virtue.

What's the corruption of virtue?

The corruption of virtue is the use of virtuous causes for very non-virtuous objectives.

So, when you want to take oil from a different country, you don't say you want oil, you say you want democracy.

So, you bring down a government and you say that it was for democracy.

Democracy is a virtuous cause, so people support it.

But what you actually want is oil.

And when you come to the Amazon and you say that you're going to defend the environment, people support that because the environment is a virtuous cause, an important one.

a humanitarian cause, but it's not really about the environment.

What's at stake is a different interest, maybe mineral resources, water, biodiversity, sources of energy, whatever is in the Amazon that is of interest to those people.

So, they resort to the environmental cause because it's a virtuous agenda.

So, the corruption of virtue

is very present today in politics, in geopolitics, in diplomacy and all international relations and politics across countries.

And I'm very worried about it because three or four weeks ago, the Economist magazine, on the cover of the Economist and their main news article, talked about the five main AI organization leaders and called them the new barons of global economy, the men who will replace oil tycoons, steel tycoons,

These are the new tycoons.

They hold a lot of power.

So, this article said that they have offered a study on the risk of finance being attacked by hackers in the US.

And the study shows a huge vulnerability in the financial system.

The US government is very concerned about that and asked them not to publicize the study, because if it were to be made public, it would confirm to those interested in hacking the system what they were looking for, because the study would show exactly where the vulnerabilities are in the financial system.

But The Economist was talking about the exponential increase

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