Mount Everest of the Obvious is dedicated to connecting essential ideas and insights on complex topics such as uranium enrichment and the ramifications of the Iraq War. They offer a variety of documentaries, articles, and reports that dissect intricate issues, emphasizing the importance of reason and evidence in public discourse. The intended audience includes those interested in understanding the deeper narratives and implications surrounding critical geopolitical topics. Through poignant storytelling and rigorous research, they aim to provoke thought and inspire intellectual inquiry.
I didn’t write those words and I don’t know who did, but I couldn’t have captured it better myself. Someone challenging accepted beliefs about how airplane wings generate lift, said the following about a topic that’s “controversial because we’ve all been taught how this works incorrectly when we’re younger.”
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I think a 3D prop of some kind is probably worth a million or a trillion words.
I couldn’t agree more! . . .
As I said in my doc:
What does it say to you that a conversation as complex as uranium enrichment could be hijacked by 10-second sound bites?
In 2014, I set out to tell a larger story about the decline of America from decades of dishonesty and systematic self-delusion. No one listened, and lo and behold — those times were tame compared to today. In the last few years — I’ve seen savagery beyond anything that inspired the doc (and that’s what gave me an idea). Back then, it was about going up against institutions and putting up a mirror to all of America. Now, I just need to get to one man.
As in what it takes to understand every single story, slide, image, title, caption, quote, and how it’s all connected in the video below (which captures the essence of what I’m out to say and do). As with the doc, it would all be plain as day if not for being controversial because of what we were taught when we were younger. Or perhaps you were taught correctly and chose to forget the lessons learned.
I was lucky — as I learned early on in life that what you want gets in the way of what you see. When it comes to ascertaining the truth, I don’t care what your cause is, who’s in the White House, who controls Congress or the courts. There is no amount of gain you could give me to believe something to be true that is false. When warranted, I will defend those I despise and call out those I like. I call a spade a spade, period. I love moments of truth that put my principles to the test. One of my favorites is the Florida election fiasco of 2000. I just wanted the right thing to be done — whether it served my interests or not was irrelevant.
That sense of fairness is so foreign I might as well be speaking another language.
People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar — and I’m not and never have been familiar.
— Michael Burry, The Big Short
If that were not overwhelmingly true, this site would not exist. I would not have been practically spit on for 20 years of telling undeniable truth of mathematical certainty: Painfully obvious deception shaped everything you see today. No rational person would repeatedly deny the undeniable, and just minutes into anything I’ve written on this issue — you should know something’s not right.
But you find it’s with me . . .
[As] I’m not and never have been familiar
In a society that systematically derails reason, evidence alone cannot penetrate such depths of duplicity. As a conduit to the recognition of reality, I inject elements of emotion into my documentary — to illustrate how people behave when their interests are at stake. The psychological gymnastics of bunk-ridden beliefs is far and away the biggest barrier to a better world.
We need a tectonic shift in critical thinking skills — and to do that we need to start looking at the root of problems instead of spinning our wheels on the symptoms.
3 minutes and 33 seconds into the Prologue — the parallel in the Profile Principle is revealed (an exemplary example of applying the same rules to both sides). But rather than taking the time to digest what someone’s saying: Some as though they’re confused — as if I invented the idea of setting up a story with a parallel that I’ll drive home by the end.
3 minutes and 33 seconds:
Ahhh . . .now I see where he’s going with this
There was a time when we did:
Great minds throughout the ages provided a wealth of wisdom to prevent the folly of our ways. And yet here we are in perennial pursuit of ideologies — warfare waged with “opinions lightly adopted but firmly held . . . forged from a combination of ignorance, dishonesty, and fashion” (to quote Theodore Dalrymple).
From Prologue to Epilogue, my 7-part series shines a light on what we have become. Thank you for your time!
Richard W. Memmer
MOUNT EVEREST OF THE OBVIOUS 
So far I have watched the prologue, act one and act two. I am a conservative person when it comes to politics, but I agree with the majority of what is being said. It is in my opinion that Richard is really trying to get to the bottom of this very serious issue and he is doing a fantastic way of reporting both sides! So far I give this documentary 4 out of 4 stars!