Max Meyer Launched a Print Magazine in 2024. Here’s Why. | Episode 245

My guest today is Max Meyer, the proprietor of Arena Magazine, a new quarterly publication exploring technology, capitalism and civilization.

Arena’s aim? To “make it okay to dream in public again.”

Max and I discuss why he launched a print magazine in 2024, WTF happened to legacy media, the wisdom of Ratatouille and MUCH more.

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Show Notes:

0:00:00 Intro
0:00:56 Main podcast
0:01:40 What is going on with legacy media?
0:03:28 Print advertising and the race to the bottom
0:05:05 The collapse of trust in the media
0:12:20 TikTok brain, news consumption & social media as a steam valve
0:23:33 Bailouts & the appeal of the “zero interest fairyland”
0:26:44 The wisdom of Ratatouille
0:33:46 The decline of Presidential oratory
0:38:36 American progress & the population bomb that didn’t go off
0:46:15 Failure is a ladder
0:52:10 The one rule of capitalism
1:04:50 Long haul flights: Where’s our roast turkey?
1:15:17 Why is Arena a physical magazine?

Books & Articles Mentioned:

- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch
- The Ultimate Resource; by Julian L. Simon
- The Population Bomb; by Dr Paul R. Ehrlich
- The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism; by Howard Bloom