Matt Ehret is a serious thinker and therefore would probably never use the term optimum-ism to describe his ideology, but for my purposes it’s a handy way to encapsulate his approach.

If optimism means focusing on the best, then optimum-ism would be more like focusing on how to continuously improve things. It’s about striving to escape ideas that block solutions and drag people into zero-sum thinking. This was the underlying paradox I wanted to resolve when I reached out to Matt.

I started our discussion by asking him about his unusual take on the global conspiracy, and it immediately took us into deeper waters of his former outlook, New Age leanings, depression, and narrow-mindedness, and how he discovered an ancient, productive counter-force that always seems to be suppressed, counterfeited, and weaponized. I found it quite interesting, although it took me a while to get it.

As the co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation based in Quebec, Canada, he and his wife Cynthia Chung have a plan of attack to educate and inspire people of all education level to recognize the weak-points in the evil social engineering that surrounds us. They believe in optimizing our way out of their cognitive and spiritual trappings.

About half a year ago I began noticing Matt and Cynthia’s work (separately, not aware of their relationship) on Substack and got intrigued enough to purchase his full trilogy, Revenge of the Mystery Cults, as well as the first volume of Cynthia’s The Shaping of a World Religion. There is a wealth of knowledge here.