“They are interested in replacing our current reality – an imperfect economic system – with something far more opaque, concentrated, and unaccountable, which they will control.”
“nothing is true and all is spectacle”
“spectacle in the place of truth”
“We should build – and we are building – online worlds that will make life and work and love more wonderful for everyone, no matter what level of reality deprivation they find themselves in.” – Marc Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg who has infamously stated (in leaked texts) that his unwitting customers/victims/users were “dumb fucks” & that “yea I’m going to fuck them”, & in 2010 stated that “privacy was no longer be a social norm” (him & Thiel’s doing specifically).
“This is what Karl Rove meant when he told the New York Times’ Ron Suskind “we create our own reality”. This is also what Andreessen means when he says that “reality is woefully lacking” for many Americans and so the Metaverse can help them create their own reality. But what he and the other technocrats are proposing is a formal end to the Enlightenment – the age championing the use and celebration of reason and truth.”
exemplary & magnificent.
A book of such wildfire brilliance & urgency, that doing an adequate & reflective review would take days of writing.
Janathan Taplin’s searing, forthright, highly-humanist & courageous rampage through & against the Technogarchy covenant & their anti-life, all-smiting-nightmare, has an almost rock n’ roll effulgency to it.
Page-for-page, there is barely a single sentence out of place, it rolls forward with the perfect dynamic & panache, whilst remaining steadfastly faithful to fulfilling the greatest critique, take-down & disclosure on the hideous & spiralling crisis/folly of techno-fundamentalist fascism.
I can’t recommend it enough & I would put it above anything else I have read on the subject so far.
“Are the technocrats divorced from reality, or is this a darker plot that is employing fantasy to enact a right-wing political coup that will kill our majoritarian democracy and lead us in to an area of economic unrest and civil war?”
“In creating the fantasy that the Republicans represent the working class, control of Twitter and Facebook has been key to the ‘Technocrats’ success.” And particularly troubling about this period is the rise of political violence.”
“This suggests that Facebook is responsible for 2 million of these people being pushed to QAanon from Facebook’s recommendation engine” – former Facebook investor Roger McNamee
“Competition is for suckers” – Peter Thiel
“These four projects – The Metaverse, cryptocurrency, human travel to and colonization of distant planets, and transhumanism – are an existential risk to the world in moral, political, and economic terms.”
“Extractive economies tend to produce great concentrations of wealth, and they tend to corrupt the institutions meant to police them.”
“What radio was to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, social media is to Donald Trump.”
Alex Karp, the demented “nothing is true & everything is possible” self-hating-Jew & CEO of the abomination Palantir.
“Musk thinks Thiel is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart”. – close associate of both men
Peter Thiel, clearly & simply the most nefarious & cancerous from the Devil’s line-up of Tech frauds, is also identified by Taplin as the worst actor among them all.
Reading through The End of Reality, I uncover even more compounding & skin-crawling atrocity on this absolute fiend & freak to add to the man’s evidence mountain of filth & evil intent.
“certainly the most influential [of the Technocrats]” – Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is – “probably the most clearly fascist prominent figure in the U.S. today, including Trump.” – John Gantz
Thiel is now “pressuring” (would that involve personalised blackmail via his CIA-backed & integrated spying/surveillance platform Palantir?), urging, influencing & driving his corporate Silicon Valley cohorts (including Sam Altman of OpenAI who considers Thiel a mentor as well as a major investor in the company) to ever more dystopic & fascistic extremes.
“The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.” – Eric Schmidt
“He reminds me of Kanye, that level of emotional intensity – his childhood was so intensely bad, he just won’t go there.” – Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen’s business partner
“Today every action the Technocrats take is in furtherance of preserving the status quo. That our country seems chaotic and that our political class is parallelized is fine with the technocrats. For them, the pandemic was an upside.”
“As Zuckerberg’s collaboration with the national security apparatus indicates, despite their talk of liberty, every one of the Technocrats is clearly anxious to stay in the good graces of whatever administration holds power in the United States. Thiel, Andreessen and Musk all own businesses that rely on Pentagon, CIA and NASA funding.”
sponging corporate pluto-parasites sucking at the state teets & gulping taxpayer welfare streams. A gigantic transfer of wealth, from public to private, a “heist” & a form of fantastical embezzlement & super kleptocracy …. billionaire burglars & bandits.
Peter Thiel’s regressionist, despotiphile monarchist rent-boy – Curtis Yarvin – makes a few repulsive entries, including the following hyper-fascist prate to about putting the plebs in stocks, where he suggests –
“A trivial database that can identify the set of humans in the country that are (a) productively employed, (b) independently wealthy, or (c) a well-supervised dependent of (a) or (b). Everyone else, including all minors, gets the tag. This inconspicuous device fits on your ankle and continuously reports your position to the authorities. If no crimes are committed near your location, you have nothing to worry about.”
just the other day, RFK Junior – $ump’s triple-turncoat health secretary – said that he intends for “every American” to be wearing a tracker/monitoring device or “wearable” within four years.
Thiel & Karp of Palantir are now preparing to implement a Palantir run “database” on “all Americans” via their well-soiled shill & supplicant $ump & his chaperone – Ladyboy Vance.
big brother small government ….. funded by the surveilled serfs.
as damaged & delusional white-collar-Nazi Marc Andreessen slimes out – “I believe we are now seeing the creation of a new generation of Silicon Valley-style defense vendors that can move faster and smarter, and specialize in applying the leading edge of modern technology in original ways.” on their own populations.
Because billionaires/technocrats/oligarchs & their tiny retinue class remain, unaffected, immune, protected, sheltered, & actually profiteer from the unilateral affliction of the technology/suppression/despotism that they devise, introduce & control.
everybody/thing else is just wood on the fire to these supreme parasite wealth negator hellscapers.
Trump’s our instrument. – Steve Bannon
“Many ambitious people find it far less scary to think about destroying the world than to think about never amounting to much of anything at all. All the people I have met think they are going to win eternal fame through their AI projects are like this.” – Eleizer Yudkowsky
stealing, buying, corrupting, destroying or absorbing everything of sovereignty or value in a concentrated act of mass plunder, spoliation, rape, disempowerment & dispossession, straining for the target of cyber slavery & a fascio-feuadal neo-totalitarianism .. or worse.
“Case in point is Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter As the Wall Street Journal reported, “Before and during Mr. Musk’s breakneck takeover of Twitter, a close-knit group of libertarian activists and businessmen have been encouraging him to get involved”. Leading that group was Peter Thiel, who was anxious for Donald Trump to return to Twitter. The takeover was more of a political act than a wise investment move, as Musk’s subsequent attempts to back away demonstrated.”
Unfortunately, there is very little on the Mercers (Robert & Rebekah) – the toxic phantoms arduously poisoning the atmosphere from the shadows with dollar after dollar after dollar.
But the lone-page that does feature them divulges some crucial chicanery in mere paragraphs:
“Thiel also became a major backer of of the Rockbridge Network along with Steve Bannon supporter Rebekah Mercer. In the pantheon of libertarian billionaires, the Mercer family ranks near the top [yet they remain almost invisible & barely covered by any journalist in some sort of extraordinarily, uncanny & unexplained media blindness]. Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah helped finance not just Trump’s campaign [joining early funders Peter Thiel & the late Sheldon Adelson] but also a right-wing media apparatus (Breitbart News, Cambridge Analytica) to support it. As one of Mercer’s former partners at his Renaissance hedge fund, told the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, “Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob [Rober Mercer].”
Taplin goes on –
“One of Rockbridge’s projects, according to the Washington Post, is a “lawfare and strategic litigation fund” “to hold bad actors, including the media, accountable”. Thiel obviously believes that even the threat of suing another media business (like he did with Gawker) into bankruptcy may be effective. He and Bannon are guiding the Rockbridge strategy”
Taplin also levels an entire chapter at destroying the scam of crypto “The Crypto Con” in a veritable storming of the shyster’s lab.
He also allocates a chapter to “Transhumanism”. It is of course, the “esoteric and transgressive” Thiel – with his parabiosis (regular blood transfusions from young males & boys under 25 to try & avert ageing) & his obsession with “the singularity”, among other disturbing, outlandish & supremely unnatural pursuits & proclivities – that defines the chapter.
It’s just sick.
if you only read one book on this extreme, out-of-control & perilous crisis/farce of an era, make it this one.
“Thiel and Andreessen, understood more than most, that the nature of warfare was changing in the digital age and that software could eat the defense budget as well as the world. New forms of warfare (cyberattacks, killer robots, drones) would push the boundaries of the conventions of war, Geneva or otherwise. To Thiel, the future of the American corporate state’s hegemony over its rivals will be a set of unique autonomous weapons capabilities that “operate outside the checks and balances of representative democracy”.
Jonathan Taplin, PublicAffairs/Hatchette Books Group, 2023, 279-pages
https://www.gakishidosha.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nabeg-EEE-EP-1.zip
we did warn ya’!