Saw it yesterday. I really like some of his posts, even though (not specific to this video) the discourse suffers from feeling a bit too apocalyptic/inflated at times, perhaps in favor of building an audience/profit from it(?) (regardless of whether one may consider such fatalism to be completely justified or not). Perhaps it's just the nature of critical thinking? I guess the same could be said of similar outlets.
To me these kind of ideologists would end up serving rather as an informational/documentative purpose (provided their predictions end up proving true), and the discussing of the issues becomes merely an intellectual exercise of sorts. Nothing they denounce/advocate for or against will be altered by the posting of a video -or a myriad of them-. A major event like the demise of the dollar might force the bulk of the populace to react whenever the time comes, but maybe not even that will (insert couch potato image).
For weird reasons (I guess somewhat explained on that video) people WANT to be reigned in and herded -as they always have been-. They want their government/authority figures to lie to them and deceive them, manipulate them, and rob them off the fruit of their labors, nowadays through the international banking system. Paper money becomes more and more worthless as it is mismanaged by private bankers who run it in to the ground trying to make as much profits as they can. On the receiving end, the crucifix of old is now a credit card.
I'd like to point out the America criticism feels excessive (or at least somewhat biased) to me; the whole western world shares the blame in allowing for the merger of corporate power with the state; big banks that go hand in hand with the governments and exploit the majorities as tax paying and labor cattle, bringing about transnational corporatocracies. The US just happens to play as center stage of a more global problematic.
Just to point an example (and to refer to your HSBC thread) that bank has been allowed all sorts of crimes in many countries in the west (not just the US); but in China for example, they are kept on a tight leash, and just can't get away with the same shit they do over here in the west.
It's also not a recent development by any means; even since WWII Swiss banks were widely proven to be in ties with Nazi war crimes (the profits from it), and while sure enough there was a Nuremberg trial, the banks that made it big on Jewish gold ended up above punishment, thriving instead.
I think the way things are going, after the dust settles the 21st century will end up being an Asian century (Asian countries and Russia). Not that the west will necessarily burn up in flames or any extreme like that, but it's protagonist role in the world stage (economic then political, and maybe also even cultural?) decidedly seems to be on it's way to lose momentum, with a hefty profit balance for a minority on the top, and a rather rough readjusting for the rest. And I guess most of society will end up realizing (some of it) only though the history books.
