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Steve Kwast

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

I would, the leaders of the Air Force and of Congress would come to me and say, Steve, see, you're wrong. Elon Musk blew up a rocket. And he's a fool and we're not gonna give him any money. But they were listening to lobbyists saying, Elon Musk is a risk. You need us to build your rockets. And the only way to do this safely is to build it, launch it, and then let it burn up in the atmosphere.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

I would, the leaders of the Air Force and of Congress would come to me and say, Steve, see, you're wrong. Elon Musk blew up a rocket. And he's a fool and we're not gonna give him any money. But they were listening to lobbyists saying, Elon Musk is a risk. You need us to build your rockets. And the only way to do this safely is to build it, launch it, and then let it burn up in the atmosphere.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And that's the trap of mindset. That's the trap of being stuck in an intellectual rut of how you've done things in the past and not being able to leap to something new because it succeeded for you in the past. So why change? If it's not broken, don't fix it. It goes back to another saying, everybody loves innovation as long as it's been done before. This is why we're stuck.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And that's the trap of mindset. That's the trap of being stuck in an intellectual rut of how you've done things in the past and not being able to leap to something new because it succeeded for you in the past. So why change? If it's not broken, don't fix it. It goes back to another saying, everybody loves innovation as long as it's been done before. This is why we're stuck.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And that's the trap of mindset. That's the trap of being stuck in an intellectual rut of how you've done things in the past and not being able to leap to something new because it succeeded for you in the past. So why change? If it's not broken, don't fix it. It goes back to another saying, everybody loves innovation as long as it's been done before. This is why we're stuck.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

But there's another side of it that's a little darker. And this gets back to what you do. What you do is you are trying to find truth. And we are living in an age where we are moving from an industrial age to a networked age. And we're like teenagers and we don't have the tools to know what truth is. Look at the AI, look at the lies in the narrative.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

But there's another side of it that's a little darker. And this gets back to what you do. What you do is you are trying to find truth. And we are living in an age where we are moving from an industrial age to a networked age. And we're like teenagers and we don't have the tools to know what truth is. Look at the AI, look at the lies in the narrative.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

But there's another side of it that's a little darker. And this gets back to what you do. What you do is you are trying to find truth. And we are living in an age where we are moving from an industrial age to a networked age. And we're like teenagers and we don't have the tools to know what truth is. Look at the AI, look at the lies in the narrative.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Then we get social media that's like, oh great, now we can triangulate truth. We don't have to rely on just one news broadcast. and believe the TV because we found the TV is aligned to us. But now those that understand that information is the most powerful weapon in the human race, that the most lethal weapon is right between your ears.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Then we get social media that's like, oh great, now we can triangulate truth. We don't have to rely on just one news broadcast. and believe the TV because we found the TV is aligned to us. But now those that understand that information is the most powerful weapon in the human race, that the most lethal weapon is right between your ears.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Then we get social media that's like, oh great, now we can triangulate truth. We don't have to rely on just one news broadcast. and believe the TV because we found the TV is aligned to us. But now those that understand that information is the most powerful weapon in the human race, that the most lethal weapon is right between your ears.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And if I can influence what's going on between your ears in what you see is true and what reality is, I can shape that so that you act in my best interest, not in your best interest. And so part of what happens here is our government tells us stories about what is true, who's the bad guy, who's the good guy, Here's why your tax money needs to go to this. Here's why we need to have inflation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And if I can influence what's going on between your ears in what you see is true and what reality is, I can shape that so that you act in my best interest, not in your best interest. And so part of what happens here is our government tells us stories about what is true, who's the bad guy, who's the good guy, Here's why your tax money needs to go to this. Here's why we need to have inflation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And if I can influence what's going on between your ears in what you see is true and what reality is, I can shape that so that you act in my best interest, not in your best interest. And so part of what happens here is our government tells us stories about what is true, who's the bad guy, who's the good guy, Here's why your tax money needs to go to this. Here's why we need to have inflation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And we all believe it because we love our country and we don't want to be at war and we don't want insecurity. We want peace, prosperity, and health for us and everybody on the planet. But there are perverse incentives for big companies and governments to weave a tale

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And we all believe it because we love our country and we don't want to be at war and we don't want insecurity. We want peace, prosperity, and health for us and everybody on the planet. But there are perverse incentives for big companies and governments to weave a tale

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And we all believe it because we love our country and we don't want to be at war and we don't want insecurity. We want peace, prosperity, and health for us and everybody on the planet. But there are perverse incentives for big companies and governments to weave a tale

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

that deceives the population to perpetuate the wealth, control, and security of a very small group of people that are getting rich on the current methodology. So even though we may have solutions for the energy problem that include nuclear, that include solar power from space, that include helium-3, that include hydrogen, all these clean energy solutions

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

that deceives the population to perpetuate the wealth, control, and security of a very small group of people that are getting rich on the current methodology. So even though we may have solutions for the energy problem that include nuclear, that include solar power from space, that include helium-3, that include hydrogen, all these clean energy solutions

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast – How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

that deceives the population to perpetuate the wealth, control, and security of a very small group of people that are getting rich on the current methodology. So even though we may have solutions for the energy problem that include nuclear, that include solar power from space, that include helium-3, that include hydrogen, all these clean energy solutions