Building a kind of technocrat tyranny

Here are excerpts from a couple of different YouTube podcasts:

This idea Donald Trump agrees with is called “Freedom Cities,” which is also pushed by Peter Theil. It hearkens back to the old days where we had company towns, but it’s like corporate takeover. That’s pretty much where they’re trying to take things.

It’s called the “Theilverse” and they’re vision is for the gov-corp model, which is basically privatized government, but you’re not removing the authoritarian capacity of the state.

You’re basically taking the state and making it a corporation and the CEO runs it like a dictator. There’s been a concerted effort to take policies that people were enraged about that were authoritarian (like during Covid) and sort of rebrand and re-pitch a lot of them as coming from the so-called Libertarian Right, which has been financed by Theil.

Theil is not a Libertarian, even though he has traditionally aligned himself with some Libertarian interests. He used to fund Ron Paul, etc., but now he’s best known for starting Palantir and getting his initial funding for that from the CIA to the tune of $2 million.

The privatization of tyranny is the new scheme that government uses to get away with atrocities and violations of our civil liberties, and of our basic rights, that they couldn’t get away with if it was just the government doing it alone without the merger of corporate power too.

This is taking what’s called the third-party doctrine; the idea that there’s legal precedence to assure that there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy if you shared data with a third party that’s later sold to the government or given to the government.

It’s taking that idea to the extreme to build this kind of technocrat tyranny that Palantir is trying to build through a surveillance apparatus, expanding it beyond even what the NSA does.

Theil likes to claim he’s a Libertarian, but he says free-market competition is for losers. If you want to get rich, build a monopoly and Theil has built his monopolies with the direct involvement of three-letter agencies of the U.S. government.

He’s a technocrat who’s very connected to people like J.D. Vance; Vance is essentially his protégé, the one that Theil pushed to be the vice president. A lot of people don’t know about his association but it’s stunning.

Alex Karp and Theil are helping to surveil Americans by the creation of a new database that aggregates not only what the NSA has on us, but also information regarding our taxes, our medical status, all sorts of other data points that weren’t coalesced into the same data base yet. This is all built in our midst; this is happening now and, again, the Right isn’t talking about this at all.

When they were creating PayPal they went around to every three-letter agency that would talk to them, so this is a longstanding effort with these people and Peter Theil, I would argue, has been honestly a social-engineering genius in rebranding neo-conservatism as edgy and Libertarian. Libertarians used to be anti-war and now a lot of them are not and you can thank Theil for that.

The propensity to steer Libertarianism in a technocratic direction is obviously a bad thing. I mean, we can get behind the good impulses people like Elon Musk had about reducing government without also aligning with creating a technocratic tyrannical state around a surveillance regime too. You can compartmentalize the good from the bad and be totally against those propensities, but that’s where we’re at.

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The tech mafia are way plugged in. We have the assistance of the AI now, but they’ve had the “better” assistance, so there’s a lot of Black Mirror (British TV series) stuff going on. They’re already becoming one with the machine.

Theil said in interview that the Antichrist won’t be him or Elon or anybody like that; it will be somebody who’s worried about the climate, like these different doomsday activists.

Thiel and Musk, like other tech giants, are very focused on immortality, which goes into alchemy.

Theil is a Malthusian and they are straight connected to the Club of Rome. They have this thing called the “point of crisis” that they use to manage population with famine.

I think it’s the exact same thing as singularity. It’s like the false paradigm. The left-right paradigm is all fake.

You have Jeff Bezos wedding and then you have the Extinction Rebellion movement  protesting, but the movement is totally connected with the machine just as much as Bezos is.

Theil is into transhumanism and he’s talked about how the systems could be really good for you, like AI could be really good for everybody; it could essentially push humanity up as far as evolutionary devices.

They show the first person to get the Neuralink implant, which sounds like the mark of the beast, is a guy with a Christian cross on his hat and an American flag behind him. So, it’s being marketed to the Right to take it. Maybe it’s to make the rest of religious people feel a little bit more at ease.