I couldn't help it. I had to stop and dive into the edge class room . This is insane. Is everything contrive ? Those fucking people . . . the nepotism and inbreeding will be the death of us all.
No wonder everything is falling apart. David , Henry , Zbigi are dead ! and am not even sure they were that sharp . . . Johnny i will pass this around , great work. I knew of the 3rd way but 3rd culture . . . wow
Thank you so much for reading and leaving a comment, too. I really appreciate the support! It’s wild isn’t it. When I was finishing writing this, Elon Musk was on Tucker Carlson promising they’d release the Epstein “client list” with a wry smile on his face. Probably because he is one of the clients, something which came up in a case during 2023.
first the central bank , nowadays your phone. You know 5gw is in lots of ways like a magic trick , once you figured out the trick it lose the power over you. What scares me these days is the possibility to be prisoner of a technology and stagnation not to upset the apple cart. Just like oil did to us for over 100 yrs. If we would put human dignity first : the future would be limitless.
Big TQ for this article. for many years I thought Musk was a hologram, so your term 'manufactured persona' led to a bit of schadenfreude. people can indeed be manipulated, but societies are far more fluid and it's delusional to believe "the government" can "nudge" it in a certain direction. we can be coerced, but that's our good, old friend tyranny at work and who wants that, not very sophisiticated....
Compared to what’s to come, nudging isn’t very sophisticated. However, it is the start of something we’ll see advancing, the normalisation of open psychological operations.
Great article! What I find endlessly perplexing on a human level is that almost all of these figures (manufactured personas, not people) ... is that "in person" they are actually quite repulsive or, at best, nerdy and gauche. Not suave, witty or intellectually appealing. The recent "viral" meme put out by Musk regarding MSNBC (for which I have no fondness myself) was embarrassingly coarse, not witty, not really even in a popular way. I don't get the fanatical worship... unless worship is just something hard-wired into humans... and if that is so, it's a problem. Pudgy and pasty adolescent-voiced Bill Gates preaching guidelines for health? Weird. And as for DOGE, the upending of superfluous government spending... great idea, but would Musk's companies really be profitable without government subsidy and his Deep State military contracts? Lol, it's not like he's really a self-made businessman! And Bezos? They all have a kind of empty shrewdness...
as long as Musk is a big receiver of government susidies, he is totally unbelievable as someone who can achieve ending superfluous government spending. great PR though!
They’re definitely more likely to cut the government departments which help others. They’ll leave the military industrial complex intact, methinks. I definitely think many of us are hardwired to worship those who produce things which are indistinguishable from magic. They make themselves into heroes because so many people are desperate to be saved. Desperate for others to save them, not desperate to put in the hard work and save themselves.
Thanks for the kind words and for leaving a comment. I really appreciate the interaction. 🙏
Did you know that Guido Goldman was bestest buddies with Arthur Sackler and his second wife, Marietta Lutze Sackler? They were heavily invested in collecting antique furniture. Goldman was also responsible for turning "ikat" fabrics into a phenomenon. (Always have to gin up new forms of real estate in the Babylonian model.)
Arthur Sackler entry, Medical Advertising Hall of Fame (first to sell $100m of a pharma drug, Valium, which became the first $1 bn pharma drug)
That’s really interesting. I did get into studying a bit about Guidos past times in antiques and hanging wall carpets if I remember correctly. He was involved in selling one of Epstein’s homes to the Bronfman’s which appeared to be a way to add funding to the operations. Thanks for adding that note. It’s super interesting! If you haven’t already read it, you may like my article on Guido Goldman and the German Marshall Fund. It’s part of the Schwab series. You can find it on the drop down menus at the top of NEWSPASTE.com
The "art world" has been a money laundering and tax avoidance operation for so long. And just like fiat currency, it will gin up value out of nothing, then use it as the basis of economic activity. Babylon in a nutshell. This is the source of much of the degradation of art, culture, manners, and taste. Spectacles of display peddled to the masses. Deliberate degradation. On the heels of that, the anxiety people feel as their roots cultures are replaced with this drek. (That's OK--there's a drug to numb that!)
Patrick Radden Keefe touched on the art world connection in his book /Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty/, esp. chapter 5.
One of the biggest collections of Goldman's ikats is in the Freer Sackler Collection at the Smithsonian.
I have always recalled how the daughter of Arthur Sackler's first marriage, Elizabeth Sackler (former Miss Vermont...and huge progressive feminist, who bought a named wing/gallery at the Brooklyn Art Museum) reacted when her step-siblings and cousins were navigating the unraveling of Purdue Pharma over the OxyContin issue. She protested loudly that SHE never got ANY MONEY from all that bad stuff. That was the other awful people. What she didn't own up to, and nobody interviewing her mentioned, was the portion of her own fortune that derived from Valium.
This ruling class has gotten a studied pass from scrutiny for a good 75 years now. And they co-opted a wide range of philanthropic and "public" institutions, as well as the media. Secrecy is now a commodity, purchaseable only by the wealthy and connected. Everybody else gets the Panopticon. Disagree, and you're a terrorist.
I couldn't help it. I had to stop and dive into the edge class room . This is insane. Is everything contrive ? Those fucking people . . . the nepotism and inbreeding will be the death of us all.
No wonder everything is falling apart. David , Henry , Zbigi are dead ! and am not even sure they were that sharp . . . Johnny i will pass this around , great work. I knew of the 3rd way but 3rd culture . . . wow
Thank you so much for reading and leaving a comment, too. I really appreciate the support! It’s wild isn’t it. When I was finishing writing this, Elon Musk was on Tucker Carlson promising they’d release the Epstein “client list” with a wry smile on his face. Probably because he is one of the clients, something which came up in a case during 2023.
the market of control .
first the central bank , nowadays your phone. You know 5gw is in lots of ways like a magic trick , once you figured out the trick it lose the power over you. What scares me these days is the possibility to be prisoner of a technology and stagnation not to upset the apple cart. Just like oil did to us for over 100 yrs. If we would put human dignity first : the future would be limitless.
Canada is so economically squeezed i don't know how the country can continue.
In case you feel the need to go on a genealogic rabbit trail Look into : Michael
Ignatieff Prime minister during the post 2008 . . . . We have been played so often. Its tragic.
Canada is really shitLib / globo Homo central.
Big TQ for this article. for many years I thought Musk was a hologram, so your term 'manufactured persona' led to a bit of schadenfreude. people can indeed be manipulated, but societies are far more fluid and it's delusional to believe "the government" can "nudge" it in a certain direction. we can be coerced, but that's our good, old friend tyranny at work and who wants that, not very sophisiticated....
Compared to what’s to come, nudging isn’t very sophisticated. However, it is the start of something we’ll see advancing, the normalisation of open psychological operations.
Great article! What I find endlessly perplexing on a human level is that almost all of these figures (manufactured personas, not people) ... is that "in person" they are actually quite repulsive or, at best, nerdy and gauche. Not suave, witty or intellectually appealing. The recent "viral" meme put out by Musk regarding MSNBC (for which I have no fondness myself) was embarrassingly coarse, not witty, not really even in a popular way. I don't get the fanatical worship... unless worship is just something hard-wired into humans... and if that is so, it's a problem. Pudgy and pasty adolescent-voiced Bill Gates preaching guidelines for health? Weird. And as for DOGE, the upending of superfluous government spending... great idea, but would Musk's companies really be profitable without government subsidy and his Deep State military contracts? Lol, it's not like he's really a self-made businessman! And Bezos? They all have a kind of empty shrewdness...
as long as Musk is a big receiver of government susidies, he is totally unbelievable as someone who can achieve ending superfluous government spending. great PR though!
Totally. He’ll be looking to divert that money to him and his friends. Peter Thiel must be licking his robolips.
gofers Vance and Ramasmarmy too.
...eeew!!
you're totally right. the more exposure the better.
They’re definitely more likely to cut the government departments which help others. They’ll leave the military industrial complex intact, methinks. I definitely think many of us are hardwired to worship those who produce things which are indistinguishable from magic. They make themselves into heroes because so many people are desperate to be saved. Desperate for others to save them, not desperate to put in the hard work and save themselves.
Thanks for the kind words and for leaving a comment. I really appreciate the interaction. 🙏
Reading the name Brockman immediately reminded me of ‘Kent Brockman’ the news anchorman on The Simpsons...
I, for one, would like to welcome are new Technocratic overlords…
Did you know that Guido Goldman was bestest buddies with Arthur Sackler and his second wife, Marietta Lutze Sackler? They were heavily invested in collecting antique furniture. Goldman was also responsible for turning "ikat" fabrics into a phenomenon. (Always have to gin up new forms of real estate in the Babylonian model.)
Arthur Sackler entry, Medical Advertising Hall of Fame (first to sell $100m of a pharma drug, Valium, which became the first $1 bn pharma drug)
https://archive.vn/rWxRj
That’s really interesting. I did get into studying a bit about Guidos past times in antiques and hanging wall carpets if I remember correctly. He was involved in selling one of Epstein’s homes to the Bronfman’s which appeared to be a way to add funding to the operations. Thanks for adding that note. It’s super interesting! If you haven’t already read it, you may like my article on Guido Goldman and the German Marshall Fund. It’s part of the Schwab series. You can find it on the drop down menus at the top of NEWSPASTE.com
I did see that remarkable piece.
The "art world" has been a money laundering and tax avoidance operation for so long. And just like fiat currency, it will gin up value out of nothing, then use it as the basis of economic activity. Babylon in a nutshell. This is the source of much of the degradation of art, culture, manners, and taste. Spectacles of display peddled to the masses. Deliberate degradation. On the heels of that, the anxiety people feel as their roots cultures are replaced with this drek. (That's OK--there's a drug to numb that!)
Patrick Radden Keefe touched on the art world connection in his book /Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty/, esp. chapter 5.
One of the biggest collections of Goldman's ikats is in the Freer Sackler Collection at the Smithsonian.
I have always recalled how the daughter of Arthur Sackler's first marriage, Elizabeth Sackler (former Miss Vermont...and huge progressive feminist, who bought a named wing/gallery at the Brooklyn Art Museum) reacted when her step-siblings and cousins were navigating the unraveling of Purdue Pharma over the OxyContin issue. She protested loudly that SHE never got ANY MONEY from all that bad stuff. That was the other awful people. What she didn't own up to, and nobody interviewing her mentioned, was the portion of her own fortune that derived from Valium.
This ruling class has gotten a studied pass from scrutiny for a good 75 years now. And they co-opted a wide range of philanthropic and "public" institutions, as well as the media. Secrecy is now a commodity, purchaseable only by the wealthy and connected. Everybody else gets the Panopticon. Disagree, and you're a terrorist.
Jeffrey Epstein said he met with Elon Musk in 2012: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12190037/Jeffrey-Epstein-bragged-lunch-meeting-Elon-Musk-2012.html