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Paulo Kirk's avatar

And yet, and yet . . . the daily grind of billions, just looking for water, a light bulb, food.....

Systems thinking and shifting baseline disorder, all of that as part of agnotology and collective amnesia a la Homo Consumopethicus.

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/jews-and-pagers-terminations-at-colleges

Magic number always increasing = 319 = 319 Jewish Billionaires and their millions of Jewish millionaires, a la Eichmann and Faustus.

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealing its full ideological face. Palantir is not an isolated case in the global technological landscape.

It is one of several major technology companies that sell their technologies to systems of repression and human rights violations, and has been condemned by international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, for its role in enabling forced deportations, mass surveillance, and the persecution of dissidents.

Most damning of all, documented reports have revealed a direct partnership between this company, alongside other Western technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, and the Israeli military, providing data and targeting systems that were used in military operations on Gaza, making it an actual partner in documented war crimes against Palestinian civilians. In this regard, it does not differ in substance from other major digital capitalist companies that practice the same thing in different forms and varying degrees of openness.

It is a class declaration of a project for a digital fascist alliance that relies not on traditional violence alone, but on digital surveillance and repression, data analysis, artificial intelligence, the manipulation of public opinion, and the suppression of dissent through imperceptible yet deeply impactful methods. An alliance whose crimes do not remain within elite circles and corporate offices, but extend to battlefields and the bodies of civilians, embodied today in its clearest form in Trumpism, its alliances, its crimes, and its aggressive wars.

Conclusion: Digital Fascism by Its True Name

The Palantir manifesto reveals clearly that we face a new form of fascism, not only in the narrow historical sense, but in its essential meaning: the alliance of monopoly capital with aggressive national political power and the deployment of violence, repression, and civilizational hierarchy to protect this alliance from any popular threat. The only difference is that the tools of this fascism today are algorithms, big data, and artificial intelligence, and this is what makes it more airtight and more difficult to resist than what preceded it.

When Alexander Karp finishes writing his philosophical manifesto in his elegant office, the algorithms his company built continue their work of identifying targets, tracking migrants at borders, building databases of dissidents around the world, and supporting the machinery of militarism and repression across the globe. Philosophy and crime are two faces of the same coin.

The struggle for social justice and liberation today passes inevitably and substantially through the struggle to liberate technology from this aggressive class alliance. This is not a technical question or an abstract ethical question. It is a political question through and through, and part of a historical struggle over who holds control over the future and human consciousness: the monopolistic minority allied with projects of killing and repression, or the working masses who must impose their authority over the tools that shape their lives and their destiny.

RE:

https://savageminds.substack.com/p/the-explicit-manifesto-of-digital

Forest Cat's avatar

Herding people through the institutional systems that are designed to constrain dissidents while maintaining control of the mechanisms designed to keep the invisible hand concealed.

J.-J.'s avatar

I must say I agree with your take on alternative media’s tendency to oversimplify issues too often due to ignorance and lack of research not to mention those who deliberately sabotage the alternative media’s «mission» to rectify certain facts and correctly inform the public. Many often show a tendency to put their personal beliefs on a par with the so-called information they pretend to provide. It is a mess.

However, there is no alternative to the alternative media. The 2008 Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 madness or the Epstein Files, etc. have amply demonstrated that conspiracy IS the essence of governments and institutions and therefore, whatever comes out must be treated with absolute distrust. This is our present predicament and discernment is our only reliable means to find out the truth about any matter that concerns our survival.

grahamlyons's avatar

"Academia rewards specialisation - careers are built by knowing more about less." That's right, illustrating the reductionist nature of scientism, the prevailing metaphysics of science. The quintessential scientism-ist knows absolutely everything about f..k all!

I spent twenty years in academia, usually struggling to secure funding for my research, which was "big picture" in nature: alleviating micronutrient deficiencies in populations using a food system approach. While watching the molecular biologists/"gene jockeys" being showered with money...and usually achieving nothing other than some articles published in fancy esoteric journals.

Professors of moderate intellect (but adept at securing lavish govt/industry grants that conform with the imposed, approved zeitgeist) abound, while true genius is suppressed, sidelined. This phenomenon has been well described by Bruce Charlton (UK) for decades.

RiverHollow's avatar

Poisoning the well? They would never.

Great article.

Debra Yuille's avatar

Great Insights!! Thanks for your dedication!! x

Mateo Danza's avatar

Fucking brilliant.

DrLatusDextro's avatar

The unpleasant destination seemingly presented as inevitable today is one that appears heavily influenced by both vested interests and competing hierarchies, and is also one redolent with a coterie of unintended consequences.

There exists the sense of a post hoc interpretation of quasi-random, semi-chaotic, non-deterministic events across a multitude of domains that follow a randomness of applied intelligence, social evolution and logically evolving technology. The illusion of ordered 'planning' that forms the constructed and ordered 'long view' afforded by retrospection, depends on an interpretation of semi-chaotic sequential historical and technological trajectories arguably presented in compelling form that serves to cement a perception of irreversibility and inevitability?

Even as the pre-existing circumstances of one event influence the outcome of a second event, the potentially random 'steering' element still persists, that of logic, intelligence, social mores and economic conditions.

Today, a spectrum of competing hierarchies appear, seemingly knitted together by an underpinning financial structure, but each in possession of a key central ideological construct, whether based in the WaterMelon Charade, upon the Malthusian Directive, or upon outright total State control. In addition, sub-species within the globalist taxonomy exist and also compete for niches.

Technological evolution has provided the foundational surveillance and digitisation platforms currently in vogue, while the expediting 'tools' implement a desired end-result within the variations of their raison d'étre: non-compliance and exclusion, unethical injections leading to extinguished life expectancy or death, implemented destitution, created dependency, and focused delegitimisation.

The desired 'end-result' of depopulation, deindustrialisation and death appear as undeniable aims pursued by an apparently generalisable global tyranny. This Age Of Tyranny at its dystopian heart embodies the anti-human Doctrine of ZERO, whether 'NetZero' or 'ZeroTrust'.

It is, of course, doomed to inevitable failure.

For the moment though, it appears a human and spiritual consequence that we have to endure (once again) a deranged consequential interregnum that quests for absolute regulation. It appears anti-prosperity, anti-liberty and anti-property, and it is one that rejects individual sovereignty, while conspiring to erase the spark of human divinity.

We can determine otherwise by withdrawing social licence and submission to authoritarians. The question is will we, or indeed, can we?

Grant Piper's avatar

Changing the language, the frame, does not change the result - we do not matter. Whether we can 'see' it or not, whether we are 'conspiracists' or drone functionaries within the system - we do not matter and cannot change it.(?) So how would we throw a spanner in the works? Challenge the 'ethic' directly?

Thalia Martin's avatar

This is brilliant, and as you say, it's where genuine resistance begins!

Chris Coles FRSA's avatar

Esc, in a very real sense you have provided a detailed explanation I wish was available to me, say 55 years ago, at my mid twenties; as with this wider view of what is going on, outside of personal life experience, looking back; many decisions made were entirely the wrong road to travel, and provide an answer to that truly magical question; WHY?

Yet, you also provide an answer as to why I instinctively; kept making those mistaken decisions, and that in turn provides wonderful hindsight. That a lifetime living with a thinking brain, as anyone possessing such will attest, can be a huge burden; as asking WHY? presents sometimes a lifetime of background thought about sometimes the simplest observation.

Two aspects stand out; there is always so much to learn by face to face networking while standing amongst, as you so well describe; people that had built their "careers ... built by knowing more about less"; and secondly; not taking the traditional career path in the likes of science, instead to become a skilled artisan, with ones mind directing hand and eye. Where working in a satanic mill industrial environment, one has to make every decision minute by minute; tried that, did not work, so keep trying, again and again until success - rather than making a case to think about; anything; for years before any acceptance of understanding, if indeed, any such understanding is based upon observed facts.

Ideal gas law immediately comes to mind; where the scientific law demands acceptance that every gas molecule is free to move linearly without contact with any other; yet a shock wave requires every gas molecule must be attached to each other surrounding it. Yes, correct; no one will review the work that describes the explanation why that shock wave observation exists, and I well remember a conversation with a Chemistry Professor during an internal US flight where I asked her; if you have a single gas molecule within a closed container, where is the gas molecule? My own answer being, it must completely fill the container by attachment. . . she looked very angry indeed, and walked away, mumbling something about talking to an idiot.

My own experience tells me that with such entrenched, narrow, taught by rote careers, it may take at least another century for acceptance of such new thinking. So thank you for setting out the detail of the ongoing challenge facing us at this moment in the history of the planet.

rtko's avatar

This piece by Timothy Winey is interesting to view in relation to the Kabbalah System Theory:

https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/trump-has-a-kabbalah-teacher?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

This brings in the Chabad network. Chabad isn't a secret organization. Its modest membership of 200,000 belies an extraordinary reach into the highest echelons of international power. That's the clearinghouse pattern again — not owning or governing, but occupying the spaces between.