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Sandy W's avatar

I think you should do a YouTube video - 6th grade level with some charts and real life examples to explain this to the masses. Or contact Aaron Parnas and get an interview with him. They are hiding behind this sophisticated rhetoric and the ordinary person has a hard time following or see if there is a movie that mirrors this. I know what you are saying is real and people are falling into the trap.

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Joel Olney's avatar

Very well laid out. Pattern is the same as what happened in the Philippines

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Sage Connell's avatar

"Conspiracy is just another word for coalition." Robert Anton Wilson

Thank you for your work, especially this piece. It is very challenging metabolizing current events. But when one gets a chance to quietly think through what is actually happening instead of simply reacting to the cacophony of political noise, some things become clear. As R.A.W. and others have made clear, sometimes the conspiracy isn't even a conspiracy- it's simply what is happening right in front of us.

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Rosanne Azarian's avatar

As usual, courageous writing.

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B. Joy Hertz's avatar

The apparent takeover of the masses of uneducated, emotionally susceptible populous is the ever present danger that can only be confronted by suitable education and truly clear, focused and independent thinking, such as available by discuplined-self-wlll as an independently chosen Initiation required in our time IF HUMANITY IS TO EVOLVE TO THE APPROPRIATE STAGE. The breakdown of clear, focused thinking, together with the eroding of an appropriate level of Moral concern for Humanity, and a failure of Willingness to STRIVE towards a GENERALIZED IMPROVED Human condition, are symptoms of the FAILURES of the present Humams to EVOLVE, which will inevitably lead to DESTRUCTION of the CIVILIZATION, which is the War of All Against All.

To THINK TRUTH, to Create Beauty, and to STRIVE for COMMUNITY with LOVE alone can save us!

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Celia Abbott's avatar

Very compelling. Thank you.

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Charley Ice's avatar

Sophisticated perversion is still perversion. Narcissism is the essence of bad faith in human nature, the root of destruction of the species and our place in Nature.

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Rocket Cat's avatar

This is great information, and I had not yet read Thiel’s manifesto. If you have not read Ursula LeGuin’s 1973 short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” I highly recommend it. There is a Girardean scapegoat who gets tortured as the bloodprice for utopia.

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susan chapin's avatar

What would love have us do?

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Trystan's avatar

O9A but for rich assholes.

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Connie McClellan's avatar

Data is 100% meaningless until it’s analyzed.

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Claire N's avatar

Palantir is not a surveillance company. It has no surveillance or storage infrastructure (i.e. cameras, datacenters etc). It only analyzes existing data. Thiel though governs a system of companies (small in personnel and in revenue, even Palantir) that might form a surveillance machine. Basically tech itself is two-faced and Thiel seems to be two-minded, strengthening the existing central state while preparing for a post-big nation, more decentralized, more experimental world in the future. In a normal situation they perhaps will wait until we get to other planets. And I don't have problem if a small group of people colonizes and brings life to a faraway dead planet and organizes their kingdom there or whatever.... But this is not a normal situation. When one sees that China too is considering crypto (which their model really really hates), one understands what Thiel really meant by saying that tech does not need to persuade voters. Intelligence reports say that WW3 will likely happen around 2027-2029 when China invades Taiwan or Russia pushes into the EU. China is speading their military intelligence machines from Asia to Cuba and Latin America. Everyone is engancing surveillance capabilities. This is not the will of one or two billionaires. The state cannot refuse Thiel's "help" because they have no choice - in the US, in Europe, and increasingly in Asian allied countries from the Middle East to Japan. The longterm thing though is that the nature of production systems is changing. AI, quantum, material sciences... etc will change everything. Whether we want it or not, if humanity survives post 2030, the world will need new social contracts.

Yes, perhaps Thiel is not the most democratic leader ever. Which militarist is, though.... (Because he is a militarist). But I am not sure the West removing him and his cohorts wil make things better - this is what China and Russia are hoping for, considering the way their propaganda targets him. The best way to overcome your own militarists is reinventing democracy. Don't resist change, but we can think of ways to make the future social contracts fairer for the common people.

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Charley Ice's avatar

Sophisticated perversion is still perversion. Narcissism is the essence of bad faith in human nature, the root of destructio.

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