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I regularly suggest that it is caused by agents (things with the power to act) that are composite - made up of multiple people. No one person has the whole picture in his head, much like no one neuron has a whole thought.

People who avoid personal agency are much more effect components for these larger agents.

Many immediately jump to it being the work of the devil. If that’s what you’re seeing, you’ve zoomed out too far. The goal is predictive power, so that we can fight back efficiently. I have a number of substack posts on the topic. Here’s one that gets into it:

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The pre-covid friends I still try to discuss the world with want to be controlled (or desire to be slaves). This is why they don’t want the freedom that’s out there and invent any excuse for me to be wrong.

I think it’s a fundamental problem that my vote is pooled with theirs. They vote for all of us to be controlled, I vote for all of us to be free, and we battle. Surely, we can establish a compromise, whereby they’re controlled and I’m free?

Of course, we know the way that fails. They will see our success at being part of the free crowd, and demand it redistributed into the controlled crowd. Still, I think there’s opportunity here for consensual restructuring and a long-term desirable outcome.

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Maybe they are simply trying channeling this:

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Freedom means responsibility.

The cowards who oppose their own freedom because they don’t want the responsibility of acting and especially thinking lack the courage to admit this to themselves let alone the world.

The psychology of opposing freedom goes even deeper. Freedom most importantly allows the independent mind to solve the myriad problems of producing and sustaining the things we need to survive - food, clothing, shelter, medicine, etc.

The implication: opposing freedom means opposing human life.

Is that too dark to contemplate?

If you think so, read ATLAS SHRUGGED. One of the villains ends up face to face with one of the heroes, and is confronted with that stark realization. The villain had spent his life trying to avoid that realization- and does not react well when he no longer can.

(Spoilers intentionally avoided.)

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I agree with this statement, I noticed the same positive changes.

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Hi Evie and Chris - great to see you working together again! I really enjoyed this hour and will be absorbing implications for a good while. That footage from Germany! Who knew that becoming cynical enough to keep up with reality would become such a profound challenge.

The other striking concepts in here for me are that our free will is the precise target, and that so many of us actually don’t want freedom.

The first falls into place inside me as a terror that didn’t have words before. I’m afraid of death but it feels natural, existential, not personal, a thorough challenge, but benign. Circumstances harsh enough to make me give up free will though - that triggers a ferocious terror. I do not like addressing terror feelings. Ugh. A lovely task for my next quiet moments.

The second has so much explanatory power. It has often come up for me that we en masse do not yet have the wisdom that would call out quality leadership and intelligent decisions. On average, we seem asleep, addicted, lazy, uninformed, lacking the kind of vision that is powered by truth and so, so easy to deceive. Mattias says it much faster. Many of us don’t want freedom (responsibility). That’s why pointing to the data and describing the deceptions makes no difference.

These two insights have already become part of my context for life on earth. They will help me stay oriented.

On the other hand, there is also a large awakening afoot. Unpredictable, amazing, delightful. Interesting times indeed.

Susan

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Tried that with toy cars in the 1960s. The batteries run out of power and have to be replaced, at a price eventually, ultimately, exceeding the full value “when new” of the toy car. If the toy car even lasts that long. Both the toy car and batteries end up in the trash. The crooks that sold you both yelling: “You can’t do that! Think of the ecology.”

Same result, except that instead of lying to children about how great technology is, TPTB, the Deep State, is lying to so-called adults.

EVs are toy cars with batteries. Very expensive toy cars and very, very, very expensive toy batteries – that often catch fire, incinerating the fool idiot that spent all that money. Or the car has an even nastier habit of chasing down and running over police officers – and then exploding in a ball of Lithium.

What I particularly like is how exploding lithium batteries – made up primarily of rare earths – are showing up in everything. And there aren’t enough rare earths to go around.

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The Irish are like this. When under British rule, the Irish cried and wept for their freedom, while blowing up British soldiers. Once they got their freedom, they immediately bankrupted Ireland, became debt slaves, and began their crying and weeping all over again.

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The UK? God? The empire that refuses to die is immortal. What does the UK care about God? Or God about the UK? The UK has the Anglian Church. Just ask the Church of England. It pisses on your God (with all due respect). Seriously.

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I’m not totally sure I’m right here, but there are loads of signs that ‘Trump’ is one big ‘limited-hangout’ psyop.

To start with, Trump never seems to say much of substance (except in his pre-electoral presidential speeches, which I guess are a way to draw in punters to the Trump Bandwagon), and to me he doesn’t seem well informed, nor to grasp the nuances of whatever policy field he’s lauding over. He avoids specifics and gaslights, always saying that everything is running absolutely swimmingly, even when it’s a total shitshow. His musings over the jabs is an example of this.

It’s probably not surprising that in this context I concentrate on US foreign policy, since I don’t live in the US. Re: foreign policy, and with regards to the people Trump has picked for his team, all the signs are that all his people (all the ones who’ll hold sway on foreign affairs issues, anyway) are effectively Israeli ministers-to-be out there in Israel’s North American Annex. I’m by far not the only person who has noticed this; here is but one example of an article on this: Trump's Picks are all Neocon Warhawks Ferociously Devoted to Israel, by Mike Whitney - The Unz Review

I say this repeatedly — apologies if I seem like a scratched record… for those old enough to remember scratched records! — and I think quite a lot of people concur on this: I really think the US political system is a uniparty. If this is indeed the case, how can you seriously have one side trying in earnest to bring down the other? It’s like the left side of your body trying to bring down the right side. So I think it’s just an orchestrated campaign to keep people busy and divided and running about getting hot-headed and following this side or that side of (the same) narrative.

It’s a bit like Q, looking like this really radical thing, leading people along and keeping them away from the things that really matter.

Now, I must say, putting RFK in health is, I think, a really good thing for you US-Americans (I wish we could get someone like that for health over here), and putting Tulsi in the Director of National Intelligence seat is actually quite a surprise for me. So for me there is a little bit of hope that I’m hanging on to.

But in general, I’m really scared that there’ll be some nasty false flag to make it seem that poor old anti-war Trump had no choice but to destroy Iran.

…And then we’ll be in the Third World War (which I pray doesn’t go nuclear; and which I suspect the US and the Western ‘Rules-Based International Order’ — ‘We make the rules; you take the orders’ — will resoundingly lose, whether it goes nuclear or not).

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From democrat party superpac giving handouts to celebs, 1mn$ each, we know why they still try. Payoff is great.

Other thing, psyoping 2party system to find something of other side is easiest thing in world.

This is why it is arguable toughest job on planet. Why Biden was so bad.

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Though we have a uni-party here in the US, the MAGA movement is a split of the Republican half of the uni-party. As the Senate majority leader vote showed it’s a small piece of our legislators.

However, don’t confuse the uni-party with the Israel lobby. The Israel lobby controls the vast majority of politicians in the US, Trump included. His appointment of Israel hawks to key foreign relations posts is reflective of the reported 100 million he received from Miriam Adelson. Aside from the money, he has always been a staunch supporter of Israel.

His appointment of Gabbard and Kennedy is reflective of his devotion to people he believes are devoted to him. Both Kennedy and Gabbard took huge career hits by endorsing him and doing it so strongly. He won’t ignore that.

What surprised me most about the appointments is that Michael Flynn was not included. He suffered greatly for his devotion to Trump in the first term. I expected he would be returned to power.

Many of Trumps appointments will depend on Thune following through on his promise to allow recess appointents. As I’ve posted here before, the Senate should adjourn for the MLK holiday. The afternoon of his inauguration (which is on MLK day) he would submit all the nominees.

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20 year old McDonald’s hamburger

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I am trying to find the presentation that appears to have been posted in X but I can’t find it…has it been taken down?

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Here you go!

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxROVPqPgKl

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Sorry I meant the dubbed German presentation that you showed clips from. It seems like it’s not on that x account anymore. But I finally found it on youtube - not dubbed but subtitled, so good enough. Thanks!