Comments on interview: Both of these guys live in an unreal world that is based on unnatural assumptions. They are both smart within their world, but live in a way that makes insight more difficult. Roy’s success comes from the fact that he is a master of crony capitalism, not because he did anything of real value. His activities, like those of the other leading Wall Street idols, is nothing more than rearranging patterns of ownership of capital. Unfortunately, these masters of manipulation are heroes to political leaders. They are revered and consulted as in this interview. This promotes their image as models for young people. The so-called education that they describe has little to do with reality and centers mostly on man-made money arrangements. And these capitalistic arrangements have hypnotized most of the world at the moment and make it almost impossible to solve real problems like the fact that the planet is poisoning itself.

There is a third intellect filter that he must run his responses through in addition to the two that you mentioned. It’s the self-esteem filter. Every time that he speaks he has to consider how his words are going to affect the listener to make sure that he will seem heroic. It used to be called bragging, but now it’s acceptable enough to elect a president. Not only that, but his hero is Michael Milken, a convicted felon. And he confesses that, when he ran a media company, he knew that what they presented to the public as data was actually “bull shit.” He says this confidently knowing that this admission will advance his public image; an excellent example of the world we now live in. 

His insight on the subject of what the future holds are real. But his underlying motivation is to perpetuate the capitalist system rather than to deal with the future by real change.