A few thoughts .. as you say, this isn't left / right. Technocracy proceeds through whatever "team" is technically in power. To have any chance of preventing the worst of AI / technocracy, respectful alliances need to be made with those who have warned how COVID was a test run to see how much they could get away with as far as controlling people.
Governments across the west used the same language, (and similar data manipulation), at the same time). Doesn't mean there was not also a real disease capable of harm - there was - which just makes it more cruel that early treatment was lied about all along). (https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/information-permaculture-and-cooties - See section on "Treatable Since Day One" )
Some of what you propose as solutions are also the same levers used to build the digital prisons -
UBI - In a world not run by psychopaths, where the last five years were not as they were, I would fully support UBI. The rationale makes sense. But, how could UBI not end up a tool of technocracy? It's what was envisioned, and spoken of, all along as one way to keep people compliant.
What just happened was a dystopian nightmare where some people had to "choose" between loosing their jobs, school, and in some cases medical care / chance at organ transplants, and taking an injection that was known all along to be extremely harmful, capable of transporting instructions to make a dangerous protein all over the body with no off switch. ( https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/ )
This harmed lower-income people the most, those who had no cushion and could not walk away from their jobs. Everything Democrats say about protecting the vulnerable rings worse than hollow until this is sincerely and deeply reckoned with.
Many who have been warning about the dangers of AI and technocracy see that part of the endgame is connecting participation in society to compliance with whatever medical products they want to put inside us. Five years ago I would have thought this "conspiracy theory". But then it happened.
Environment/ sustainability - Yes, the footprint of AI, with water, and electricity, and more, is massive - and this needs more attention. But also, we should stay vigilant about how the good-sounding mission of protecting the planet is also a trojan horse for digital prisons.
Each "team", red, blue, responds to different messaging to let the trojan horse of technocracy in. Some who opposed the insanity of electronic passports for an injection never tested to stop transmission, and the debanking of peaceful protestors and doctors who were right all along, would accept technocracy when sold with language of border security, lessening crime, and making sure only citizens vote in elections.
Others who reject technocracy when it's coming through concerns generally associated with the rightwing, would - already have - embraced technocracy when it's sold with language of "public health", and "environmental protection / sustainability".
Carbon / energy credits are one way for the digital noose to lock in, under the guise of what may seem reasonable at first (other than the fact that the predator class flies private jets to climate conferences).
Also, as with "public health", often computer models "predict" dire outcomes, from climate change, yet what "experts say" is taken at face value, and if anyone wants to trace any info to its roots, like the construction of climate studies, or the multiple factors that could be influencing extreme weather - they're called a "denialist", and smeared the same way the COVID doctors were. I know for certain that with COVID, most of those smeared as "misinformation spreaders" were right all along. If people are skeptical of the climate narrative, it doesn't mean a disregard for the health of the planet, the air, the water, or even a certainty that human activity has no effect on the climate.
But concerns for climate have eclipsed concerns for water, air, honest science, and the sacred sovereignty of individual decisions. (It's one thing to choose to limit air travel, but it's a slippery slope to loosing healthcare or UBI or ability to be in society for not eating insect-based protein.)
Somehow, the insane environmental footprint of AI needs to be understood, which makes using AI to limit the carbon footprint of humans and pets while the AI itself is guzzling huge amounts of resources obviously hypocritical ... while also not letting concern for climate / environment / sustainability be manipulated to accept digital prisons.
Allies - There are lots of good people and organizations doing everything they can to raise awareness of and stop the coming technocratic takeover. What they have in common is an awareness that the COVID response was not just a bit much, but global crimes against humanity - and an illustration in real time of why the-powers-that-shouldn't-be can't be trusted.
To many people there are few things worse to imagine than a system where societal participation hinges on accepting whatever they consider "vaccines", or future mRNA products.
From the brilliant Joshua Stylman (co-founder of the awesome Threes Brewing in Brooklyn) -
" Consider the pipeline already emerging: wearable detects irregularity → automated medication reminder → insurance adjusts your premiums → employer questions your productivity → economic survival depends on biometric obedience. Your device doesn't just monitor; it becomes the authority on what your body needs, what treatments you require, and whether you're a financial risk." https://stylman.substack.com/p/maha-wearables-and-the-war-for-embodied
The system's genius lies in transforming our highest virtues into control mechanisms. Our love for our children becomes support for surveillance systems that ‘protect’ them from future pandemics. Our compassion for the vulnerable becomes acceptance of restrictions that ‘save lives’. Our environmental concern becomes compliance with monitoring systems that ‘preserve the planet’.
They don't need to convince us to choose servitude over freedom. They only need to convince us to choose safety over risk, collective good over individual rights, expert wisdom over personal judgment. And they frame these choices as moral imperatives rather than political decisions. ..
The Enforcement Mechanism
Traditional authoritarian systems required extensive police apparatus and overt violence. This new approach is far more subtle and potentially more effective. Instead of sending armed agents to enforce compliance, it simply withdraws access to financial services and digital infrastructure that modern life depends upon.
Your bank account, employment, transportation, healthcare, your children's education — all increasingly depend on digital systems that can be programmed to recognise only ‘compliant’ individuals. ‘Immoral’ non-compliance doesn't result in arrest — it results in algorithmic exclusion from basic social participation. . .
Each step appears reasonable in isolation, and the policies being implemented to address these challenges are often sensible responses to what appears to be genuine problems. The danger lies not in individual policies but in their cumulative effect: systematic power transfer from democratic institutions to algorithmic systems, from local communities to international organisations, from human judgment to computational models.
We're witnessing the gradual construction of a comprehensive management system for human populations, implemented through legitimate institutions, and often supported by well-meaning people who cannot see the larger pattern. . .
The choice isn't between environmental protection and environmental destruction, or between public health and personal freedom. It's between human agency and algorithmic management, between democratic accountability and expert authority, between local adaptation and global optimisation.
We can coordinate globally while maintaining local sovereignty. We can use technology to enhance human capability rather than replace human judgment. But only if we recognise what's being constructed around us and choose deliberately to build something different."
--- The Last American Vagabond / Derrick Broze / Catherine Austin-Fitts , have been warning about this for a long time ... These folks would be natural allies ~
(The wise people fighting technocracy see and acknowledge that the digital prison is quickly being built under Trump, but also have no illusion that the other "team" was any less determined to build a control grid)
https://derrickbroze.substack.com/ - beautiful soul, aligned with community projects, tending the earth, healing through music, never trusted Trump nor the Dems.
Link to the recording?
Hi Daniel,
A few thoughts .. as you say, this isn't left / right. Technocracy proceeds through whatever "team" is technically in power. To have any chance of preventing the worst of AI / technocracy, respectful alliances need to be made with those who have warned how COVID was a test run to see how much they could get away with as far as controlling people.
Governments across the west used the same language, (and similar data manipulation), at the same time). Doesn't mean there was not also a real disease capable of harm - there was - which just makes it more cruel that early treatment was lied about all along). (https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/information-permaculture-and-cooties - See section on "Treatable Since Day One" )
Some of what you propose as solutions are also the same levers used to build the digital prisons -
UBI - In a world not run by psychopaths, where the last five years were not as they were, I would fully support UBI. The rationale makes sense. But, how could UBI not end up a tool of technocracy? It's what was envisioned, and spoken of, all along as one way to keep people compliant.
What just happened was a dystopian nightmare where some people had to "choose" between loosing their jobs, school, and in some cases medical care / chance at organ transplants, and taking an injection that was known all along to be extremely harmful, capable of transporting instructions to make a dangerous protein all over the body with no off switch. ( https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/ )
This harmed lower-income people the most, those who had no cushion and could not walk away from their jobs. Everything Democrats say about protecting the vulnerable rings worse than hollow until this is sincerely and deeply reckoned with.
Many who have been warning about the dangers of AI and technocracy see that part of the endgame is connecting participation in society to compliance with whatever medical products they want to put inside us. Five years ago I would have thought this "conspiracy theory". But then it happened.
Environment/ sustainability - Yes, the footprint of AI, with water, and electricity, and more, is massive - and this needs more attention. But also, we should stay vigilant about how the good-sounding mission of protecting the planet is also a trojan horse for digital prisons.
Each "team", red, blue, responds to different messaging to let the trojan horse of technocracy in. Some who opposed the insanity of electronic passports for an injection never tested to stop transmission, and the debanking of peaceful protestors and doctors who were right all along, would accept technocracy when sold with language of border security, lessening crime, and making sure only citizens vote in elections.
Others who reject technocracy when it's coming through concerns generally associated with the rightwing, would - already have - embraced technocracy when it's sold with language of "public health", and "environmental protection / sustainability".
Carbon / energy credits are one way for the digital noose to lock in, under the guise of what may seem reasonable at first (other than the fact that the predator class flies private jets to climate conferences).
https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/uk-considers-carbon-passports-to-restrict-travel-and-combat-climate-change/
Also, as with "public health", often computer models "predict" dire outcomes, from climate change, yet what "experts say" is taken at face value, and if anyone wants to trace any info to its roots, like the construction of climate studies, or the multiple factors that could be influencing extreme weather - they're called a "denialist", and smeared the same way the COVID doctors were. I know for certain that with COVID, most of those smeared as "misinformation spreaders" were right all along. If people are skeptical of the climate narrative, it doesn't mean a disregard for the health of the planet, the air, the water, or even a certainty that human activity has no effect on the climate.
https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/bad-storms-bad-science
But concerns for climate have eclipsed concerns for water, air, honest science, and the sacred sovereignty of individual decisions. (It's one thing to choose to limit air travel, but it's a slippery slope to loosing healthcare or UBI or ability to be in society for not eating insect-based protein.)
Somehow, the insane environmental footprint of AI needs to be understood, which makes using AI to limit the carbon footprint of humans and pets while the AI itself is guzzling huge amounts of resources obviously hypocritical ... while also not letting concern for climate / environment / sustainability be manipulated to accept digital prisons.
Allies - There are lots of good people and organizations doing everything they can to raise awareness of and stop the coming technocratic takeover. What they have in common is an awareness that the COVID response was not just a bit much, but global crimes against humanity - and an illustration in real time of why the-powers-that-shouldn't-be can't be trusted.
To many people there are few things worse to imagine than a system where societal participation hinges on accepting whatever they consider "vaccines", or future mRNA products.
From the brilliant Joshua Stylman (co-founder of the awesome Threes Brewing in Brooklyn) -
" Consider the pipeline already emerging: wearable detects irregularity → automated medication reminder → insurance adjusts your premiums → employer questions your productivity → economic survival depends on biometric obedience. Your device doesn't just monitor; it becomes the authority on what your body needs, what treatments you require, and whether you're a financial risk." https://stylman.substack.com/p/maha-wearables-and-the-war-for-embodied
https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-great-surrender - Document from 2065 ... this is the trajectory ..
From "Escape Key", who has done deep, solid research on the global control structure / roots of technocracy - https://escapekey.substack.com/p/there-is-no-outside -
"Love as Leverage
The system's genius lies in transforming our highest virtues into control mechanisms. Our love for our children becomes support for surveillance systems that ‘protect’ them from future pandemics. Our compassion for the vulnerable becomes acceptance of restrictions that ‘save lives’. Our environmental concern becomes compliance with monitoring systems that ‘preserve the planet’.
They don't need to convince us to choose servitude over freedom. They only need to convince us to choose safety over risk, collective good over individual rights, expert wisdom over personal judgment. And they frame these choices as moral imperatives rather than political decisions. ..
The Enforcement Mechanism
Traditional authoritarian systems required extensive police apparatus and overt violence. This new approach is far more subtle and potentially more effective. Instead of sending armed agents to enforce compliance, it simply withdraws access to financial services and digital infrastructure that modern life depends upon.
Your bank account, employment, transportation, healthcare, your children's education — all increasingly depend on digital systems that can be programmed to recognise only ‘compliant’ individuals. ‘Immoral’ non-compliance doesn't result in arrest — it results in algorithmic exclusion from basic social participation. . .
Each step appears reasonable in isolation, and the policies being implemented to address these challenges are often sensible responses to what appears to be genuine problems. The danger lies not in individual policies but in their cumulative effect: systematic power transfer from democratic institutions to algorithmic systems, from local communities to international organisations, from human judgment to computational models.
We're witnessing the gradual construction of a comprehensive management system for human populations, implemented through legitimate institutions, and often supported by well-meaning people who cannot see the larger pattern. . .
The choice isn't between environmental protection and environmental destruction, or between public health and personal freedom. It's between human agency and algorithmic management, between democratic accountability and expert authority, between local adaptation and global optimisation.
We can coordinate globally while maintaining local sovereignty. We can use technology to enhance human capability rather than replace human judgment. But only if we recognise what's being constructed around us and choose deliberately to build something different."
--- The Last American Vagabond / Derrick Broze / Catherine Austin-Fitts , have been warning about this for a long time ... These folks would be natural allies ~
https://tlavagabond.substack.com/p/the-palantir-panopticon-and-trumps
(The wise people fighting technocracy see and acknowledge that the digital prison is quickly being built under Trump, but also have no illusion that the other "team" was any less determined to build a control grid)
https://tlavagabond.substack.com/ - these guys are awesome. Solid, pragmatic, rooted, and were right to not trust either team.
https://derrickbroze.substack.com/ - beautiful soul, aligned with community projects, tending the earth, healing through music, never trusted Trump nor the Dems.
https://patrickwood.substack.com/ - educating about technocracy for decades
https://doortofreedom.org/ - amazing people, good souls, rooted info, proving once again that Wikipedia is completely wrong
Unlike anyone who believed the COVID narrative of (no early treatment, vaccine is best hope), these folks have good track records.
Hope helpful,
thanks for reading,
Ellen
Wish I could be there, thanks for doing it