The Josh Philipp Show

The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, is in a panic. Top generals of the regime are being purged under the banner of anti-corruption. Weapons systems that were paraded around the world as “U.S. killers” have failed embarrassingly in actual combat. The twin pillars of China’s economy—real estate and manufacturing—are in free fall. New laws are being rushed through to stop Western companies from leaving. And the multi-year war plan the CCP developed over the last decade to trap America in multiple simultaneous crises—before the regime launched its own conquest—that plan was just shredded in the streets of Venezuela and the deserts of Iran.

Therapy has gone from being a stigma to becoming a social norm. COVID-19 is partly the cause of this. All that paranoia and isolation. That social experiment where we all journeyed into the cave. Around 13 percent of adults have sought therapy. And in some ways it’s never been better. We have tele-health from the comfort of our homes. Online therapy groups. And just about every flavor of self-help imaginable. In a lot of ways, it’s a good thing. Society is reflecting. But some argue this may also represent a different trend – that maybe we’re becoming so used to digging up past harms that we’re re-living old traumas again and again.

By now, you’ve probably seen the memes saying chemicals in our water, and all around us, are turning men into women.While a lot of these are exaggerations, at the same time, there’s a lot of truth in the narrative.Testosterone levels are falling. Toxins in our environment are messing with people’s hormones—not just in men, but in women also. And it’s also true that common chemicals, including those in our drinking water, are making men less masculine.A huge part of this is caused by chemicals known as endocrine disruptors, which have come to saturate our environment. The really hard part is that they’re so common, avoiding them and the side effects they cause hasn’t been easy.But things may be changing, and there are pushes, including from the government level, to ban many of the materials responsible for these chemical toxins.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Some of the largest video games on the market, from Fortnite to League of Legends, have fallen under the ownership of a Chinese company. Tencent now owns not only some of the biggest games, but also many of the top studios. And the company could soon be forced to divest, in a move on par with the TikTok deal. While it may seem harmless at first – video games are just for fun– it’s actually pretty serious. What’s not as well known is what video games have come to represent on a broader level. They’re not just for entertainment anymore. They’re about data. They’re about access. Pervasive technologies that can see nearly every drop of data flowing through your laptop or phone. And behind the Chinese gaming industry overall, is something possibly much more nefarious: loyalty agreements to the CCP to carry out its bidding.

Why do medications cost so much in the United States? You’ll get a radically different answer to this, depending on who you talk to. Some say it’s the lack of socialized medicine. Others say it’s the fault of greedy CEOs. But others say it’s caused by something else entirely—that global policies have worked to squeeze the prices so that people in some countries end up shouldering the costs for others. But is this really the case? Well, it’s undeniable that we pay a lot more for prescription drugs than people in other countries. Even among first-world, high-income countries, we pay a lot more. And this isn’t about socialized medicine or anything like that. It’s about what the companies themselves are charging us.

Imagine a world where all information is controlled. History has been rewritten in favor of an all-controlling party. Language has been remade to eliminate subversive concepts. Your every action is monitored, and a looming threat hangs over you as a reminder of what happens if you step out of line. This is part of the image that George Orwell painted in his book, “1984.” But all of these factors are in place in the world we know today in one form or another. We have politically correct language. Certain words are off limits. Various concepts are forbidden. Private businesses and big data have already largely eliminated privacy in the digital world where much of modern life takes place. And already, we see sweeping pushes for mass censorship – an expansion of all these controls. We’re now seeing this come to the forefront in a new battle unfolding between the United States and governments throughout Europe.

How do we define private property? Normally it’s what we work to build or own. Our own labor and effort are what establish ownership. We strive. We write songs. We create movies. We innovate. We invent. And we build. But what happens when all that effort just goes away? Artists don’t need to draw anymore. Poets don’t need to reflect. Musicians don’t need to play. Everything is created in an instant, with a single command. Who owns the result? And if everyone is creating like this constantly, how long before every possibility is owned and locked away? This is the challenge we’re now facing with artificial intelligence, as it runs into intellectual property laws.