Catherine Austin Fitts

It's time for the strings.

What are the power lines you just described?

I know exactly what you mean, and I agree so vehemently.

I wish I was as articulate as you are.

I think this is like the gospel, basically.

My favorite parable, I think, is the guy who has a good year with his crops.

So he builds new storehouses to store them.

And then he finishes them, fills them full of crops and says, I'm going to take a year off and just enjoy my bounty.

And then he drops dead immediately.

so you made reference a minute ago uh to art and that you just ran a piece on art appreciating art loving art what given your background in monetary policy finance why are you commissioning pieces about art what does art have to do with anything

Yes.

So the question... So self-restraint as opposed to restraint.

So if art can edify and uplift a culture, it can also degrade and fracture a culture, I would think.

Yes.

Well, that's my favorite principle ever.

So just to reduce it to its tritest form, change starts with you.

So what kind of daily rituals make that work?

I know very smart, very successful people who have no idea what's happening.

So can I, I've interrupted you like a hundred times during this conversation, but there's so many interesting places to pause.

Information and the means by which it's disseminated and we consume it, like we're at a period of real openness right now because the old media have collapsed.