Anarcho-Techno-Super-Capitalism Pt. 3
Examining the Current Things (The Hazards of Politics, Capitalism and Technology) in the Current Year
Siren Servers have deterritorialized basic competence, basic necessities of constructive communication and mental health. This is why Substack was created: to provide a safe haven for competent and thoughtful content creators from social media mobbing, brain stem hacking, censorship and numerous other negative externalities. Jordan Peterson, who I’m almost always about 50/50 on, in the same way that I’m almost always 50/50 on Slavoj Zizek, knocked it out of the park with his latest YouTube monologue about the insanity of social media. What’s important about this, as a moment in time, in my opinion, is that everyone within my modeled ‘Cre-Order of Capital’ (in Part 6 of my Bitcoin lecture series) now agrees that social media is broken. Elon Musk’s fortune has even now put a vague $multi-billion initial lowball price on the true scale of this liability when he backed out of buying Twitter outright in the due diligence phase. What Alex Jones, Jaron Lanier and Mark Fisher had been screaming for over a decade already is now basically a generally accepted fact amongst those with most influence in cyberspace.
When Mark Fisher wrote Capitalist Realism it was 2009: the same year that the Satoshi Genesis Block was created. Even though we now look back on 2009 with nostalgia, it’s important to also remember that he warned us that our obsessions with smartphones and with holding the neoliberal paradigm of capitalism higher than any other were robbing us of our futures: creating a ‘Cybertime Crisis’, whereby the relentless demands of capitalism are deterritorializing our very sense of time and progress, robbing us of our very futures. That sense of nostalgia we feel for the past absent deeper insight or context as Mark Fisher explains, or, perhaps to drive through it with even more Capitalist Realism (as demonstrated by the current Bitcoin Industry), are functions of this Cybertime Crisis cancelling our ability to dream and our future as an unintended consequence of metastatic business concerns in the very same way that Dr Robert Malone was cancelled from Twitter.
“Renunciation is realizing that nostalgia for samsara is full of shit.” ― Trungpa Chogyam
The best example of ‘metastatic business concerns’ with respect to the ‘Slow Cancellation of the Future’ and also with respect to Dr Robert Malone is this chart below. The medical system in the USA is a cancerous mixture of both state and capitalist concerns, adopting the worst of both in practice, in much the same way that the United States Military Industrial complex does, in the same way that Dwight Eisenhower warned of.
In tribute to both Dr Robert Malone and Mark Fisher, I’m going to unpack what’s going on here using the theories of both Nitzan and Bichler’s Capital as Power framework and Daniel Robles’ engineering value framework. My tribute to Mark Fisher, Rest in Peace, in particular, is that Mark Fisher was one of the greatest engineering minds of the 21st century, grappling with the hardest possible ideas of his time, which ultimately got the better of him, but they no longer have to get the better of the rest of us. He was a Boddhisatva who blessed this world with enlightened activity and I pray that his soul emanates throughout the cosmos in all dimensions to continue that enlightened activity, and perhaps particularly in the Deva realms because Mark probably needed a long break from us and the gods need a right good boot up the backside, in my view. However, I digress.
The beauty of Nitzan and Bichler’s framework is that it normalizes both Bolshevism and Neoliberal Capitalism with respect to a tendency of stagflationary accumulation. Different systems have different mechanisms according to which to create and maintain this stagflationary accumulation, but all exhibit the same mechanism of maintaining power:
Kompromat bargaining (described particularly at length by Diego Gambetta and the business model of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell)
Government lobbying by industry and special interests within for differential advantage
The Prison Industrial Complex and Gulags
Social Credit Score, Ubiquitous Surveillance, Secret Police, Lists of ‘Unreliable’ People, Key Performance Indicators for Metrics of ‘Stability’
Auto-catalytic sprawl of both measures of capitalized power and bureaucratic gate-keeping (whether according to Leninist measures of utility or neoclassical measures of utility)
An ‘Imperial Will’ to either ‘dollarise and release the free market’ or ‘liberate the workers’
This accumulative tendency is manifested within my ‘Cre-Order of Capital’ modeled in my Romeo-Juliet framework as the Purple Triangle in the top right hand corner that accumulates capital to itself, via an insured environment of systemic fear. The insurance that I am staking here is that everyone in this diagram now universally agrees that Twitter is ‘insane’ according to the perspectives of the agent models described in 2020.
Given the liberty to discuss all these more ‘out there’ sort of things as a result of this, at this time, given that the block chain exists now (h/t Nick Land); given that, according to the United States National Association of Insurance Commissioners, insurance is the ‘highest use case for the block chain technology’; and given that the document proving this is, itself, stored on the Bitcoin SV™ block chain, inside a ‘Big Block’: it’s well time that I took a liberty, to creatively express how deep the ‘rabbit hole’ might go.
The currently generally best understood examples of how Anarcho-Techno-Super-Capitalism hacks human beings is explained via a mixture of Mark Fisher, Jaron Lanier, Tristian Harris and Yuval Noah Harari. None of their views are generally disputed, even if they makes for bad PR for the organisations such as Meta or Google activively engaging in such profit-motivated behavior. But there is another entirely more sinister explanation presented by Harald Kautz: that this process is already happening as an explicit government policy on a grand scale, and that social media and AI is just a small aspect of it. I encountered this theory while researching the causes and cures for Lyme Disease: which I caught in what I can only describe as ‘bizarre’ circumstances at Porcfest in 2012: amongst many people now famous in the Bitcoin Industry. The last decade of my life has been mostly a story of looking for answers as to why the NHS wouldn’t treat me and why the medical system in general was and is in denial about this disease on many levels. For a primer I recommend the book Lab 257 by Michael Christopher Carroll, whose conclusions were endorsed and corroborated by both Mario M. Cuomo, Former Governor of New York and Lowell P. Weicker, Former Governor and Senator of Connecticut: that Lyme Disease is an escaped US government bioweapon from Lab 257 on Plum Island bioweapons research laboratory.
Substack doesn’t embed Bitchute videos, and this video has been repeatedly removed from YouTube over the last 6-7 years, I will just leave the link here, and leave my readers to come to their own conclusions about ‘aliens’ personally I believe that Big Tech, Singularity University and NASA are all extremely pernicious and sinister organisations operating totally beyond the law and even basic sanity: HARALD KAUTZ VELLA IN 2015 EXPLAINING DEMON TECH BEING USED NOW TO SUPPRESS THE HUMAN RACE https://www.bitchute.com/video/YyP1Dv8mDmOX/
It’s up to readers to research Harald Kautz, to research his competency credentials and so forth. But absent competence and absent generally understood standards and regulations of intention, people will tend towards doing whatever they can get away with if their competition is capable of doing it too. There is nothing ‘alien’ about this, that’s just mimetic competition to assume differential advantage in any industry as describe by the Capital as Power framework.
My own original concept for the ‘highest use case of block chain technology’ was as a competence tool, in order for people to use their transaction record, in much the same way that engineers do in the continuing professional development log book, to prove their experience, competence and capability. This concept was mapped out in 2016.
And as a final liberty shout outs to David Goggins, because not everyone’s going to find the answers, but anyone can share the answers once they’re found. That’s just being a man and owning your sh*t, in my opinion.
This is a race between David Goggins and David Goggins alone
― David Goggins
In 2017 Daniel Robles won the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Grand Challenge, recognizing that Bitcoin is not just ‘A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’, but rather a trustless and immutable check valve for important information: namely engineering information: such that the real work done by real people can be measured better and trusted 10-100x better. In 2017 Daniel Robles found a solution to Mark Fisher’s problem of confrontation of Power Capital with the real, but not in a political sense, in a true Blue Collar sense: that people matter and the work that they do matters. Dan Robles’ award is a recognition that pointless jobs are merely a function of terrible leaders making terrible decisions. The true power of Bitcoin is that it enables us all to totally change the conversation between workers and Power Capital, grounded in the solid foundation of the real and the engineers with the competence and the experience to determine the real.
The first and most obvious affirmation that anyone can make in civilized society is that life has both meaning and inherent value beyond the transactional and the functional. In the USA each state Professional Engineering Association has its own constitutional law. In the United Kingdom engineering institutions are chartered under royal authority, as charities with charitable intent to to keep the public safe, the environment free from pollution whereby all life within the United Kingdom is sacred, with the Crown also being Head of the Church, whereby Jesus Christ is the King of Kings, and Head of State.
And with respect to this: the current geopolitical economic problems being experienced in the world today are not a result of Russia, nor Ukraine, nor Peter Thiel, nor Craig Wright, nor CoVid, nor the response to CoVid, perhaps not even NATO’s incompetence and drug smuggling nor even nuclear weapons proliferation. The problems in the world today originate and remain with the inability of our systems of Power Capital to want to accept and adapt to not just new information, but also to accept that knowing anything is a function of experience, discipline, hard work and personal sacrifice and not just a number on a computer within a Power Capital hierarchy. Knowledge of price requires only cursory knowledge, that’s what markets are good at, but knowledge of risk and the inner values that drive us to protect life and act in good faith to all can only ever be tacit and esoteric knowledge. Feudal societies valued the latter too much, our problem today is that we value the former too much.
If CoVid revealed anything objective about risk it was that individual attitudes towards risk and towards the ‘Do No Harm’ principle of the Hippocratic Oath given time-weighted attitudes towards life strategy differ vastly amongst the population. Any technocracy that does not allow people to first instantiate their preferences according to what Power Capital decides to do unilaterally without warning will rebel, in the same way that bears shit in the woods. However stupid the Klaus Schwabs, Joe Bidens and Rishi Sunaks of this world believe people to be, they’re actually surprisingly good at making choices when faced with Soylent Green dystopia.
Remember that when the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center 7 before it actually happened, without it even ever actually having been hit by any plane, the erudite social justice activists at the BBC and also across the world just sat there and said nothing, they went along with it. But when Karen can’t get railed without a condom on a night out and is left half naked in the street having forgotten what happened, the most important thing, from an American political theatrics perspective, is that her fetus can be harvested by the medical industry for stem cell research. And all this is purely ‘moral’ and has nothing to do with profits much less ingrained inter-generational economic inequalities either, in the same way that the American market in young fresh blood is also just a ‘growth industry’ facing ‘massive shortages’ and a ‘significant component’ within the ‘US Trade Balance’ of ‘Basic Commodities’. As George Carlin famously said: ‘it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it'.
The first thing that we need to remember as protectors of truth and of nature, is that nature works very well all by itself. That’s why it has inherent value, just in terms of the existing linear measures of value: nature performs $3 trillion of free waste disposal per annum on behalf on mankind alone. In the same way the human immune system, with proper nutrition and without artificial toxification from industrial activities and bad agricultural practices comfortably repels CoVid >99% of the time without medical intervention. American capitalism, in particular, is poor at putting values on basic natural things without creating an enormous political theater around them: even something as simple and fundamental to the continuation of the human race: women having babies, has becoming a $multi-billion theatrical shit fit. This shows us why America is currently collapsing: it worked well as a largely agricultural heterodox religious society, it became a superpower as a result of competent technocrats and geniuses, but then it failed as a metropolitan political theater of Pork Barrel spending, corruption, drugs, prostitution, moral hazard, wealth hoarding, gang violence, police state fascism and general moral decay absent being able to listen to anyone with anything useful to say aside from the Power Capital interests backing Donald Trump.
One of the very first people to highlight the potential risks of the 2008 financial crisis, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, developed the concept of Iatriogenics, from the Greek Iatrogenesis, which again relates closely to the ‘Do No Harm’ principle within the Hippocratic Oath.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
― Matthew 7:12
The Iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor.
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
I am dying from the help of too many physicians
― Alexander the Great
And in this respect, let’s stop and appreciate this Katy Perry music video, with respect to the predictive programming of Hollywood and Manhattan popular culture and whether it is projecting a view of free and natural human beings making their own decisions, or people turned into Borg bio-robots within total framed economic references competing to run in a hamster wheel in order to just exist:
The real secret of all this Babylonian Money Magick, of all of what Harald Kautz calls the ‘Alien Agenda’ and a great deal of the grosser aspects of what Buddhists term Samsara is a result of that fact that money, rather than creating real incremental value, can make us forget the value of things that we had before we accepted the money.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
― Timothy 6:10
When Richard Nixon signed the Agricultural Act of 1970, it was motivated not for the ‘health and strength of the country’, it was rather enacted as a political tool to counter the concept of the ‘Iron Rice Bowl’ in Communist China. Policies such as this are effective mechanisms to retain power and, over time, policies such as this result in two very clear and obvious outcomes seen both in Egypt, a very poor country, and American, a very rich country along with another particularly pernicious one:
Obesity: excess calories
Malnutrition: inadequate vitamins and minerals
A low level undercurrent of poisoning: from pollution and adulterated food
In Egypt the source of the poison is clear: aquatic pollution from agriculture and industry, air pollution from industry and automobiles, plaster, chalk and even sand in the government bread ration as fairly standard as the police turn a blind eye for a sack of flour. The good thing about Egypt, however is that fresh fruit and vegetables are abundant and cheap when in season, and mostly organic because farmers in the Nile Delta farm mostly the same way that they always have done for thousands of years.
In America the farmers don’t have a cultural tradition of farming beyond doing so for money. America was founded as a British imperial colony for cheap raw materials. The basis of its expansion and integration was making money from farming at scale. And when Nixon radically changed the nature of that farming in order to cement ‘Capitalist’ power in the face of ‘Communism’ in the Cold War, the sources of poison became an aspect of power and profit: slow, pernicious, hard to determine the effects of in the short term, but obviously effective in the long term: atrizine, glyphosate, mercury, genetic modification, food technology to include more soy and various methods of replacement of one ingredient with another with no immediate discernible effect on the experience of consuming food, while the businesses doing it make profits for their shareholders, but it has had a definite discernible effect over time as an entire country suffers from a simultaneous obesity and fertility crisis in a culture that encourages women to have geriatric births. For example, this video of New York from the 1950s contains little to no signs of obesity nor endocrine disruption in the population, and thing looks cleaner and more respectable:
In 2012, Lt General Mark Hertling, warned America that obesity was becoming a national security threat. But in much the same way that he said nothing when the BBC reported the collapse of WTC 7 before it collapsed, the same as those recently protesting the overturning of Roe V Wade, this, again, shows us a lot about the economics of agriculture relate to national security in novel and more insightful ways, in my opinion.
What Lt General Mark Hertling failed to mention in his very earnest and visceral Ted Talk was and is that the causes of obesity in America are and have been since 1970, not a health issue, but a Power Capital issue. As the US Military Industrial Complex gained more power after World War Two and started to do the math of the process of power, akin to people like Robert McNamara and John Nash, they quickly realized that the surest vector of revolution in any power process is hunger. Hungry people are most likely to start flipping cars over and start insurrections and revolutions. Therefore, in order to prevent this, America created ‘Agribusiness’ from what was formerly agriculture, with no care for basic health and safety, no care for the future consequences that it now faces.
The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease.
― Marcus Tilius Cicero
Further to this America also faces a massive addiction problem to both prescription and illegal drugs. The health and psychological problems caused by bad food, bad technology and a bad value system overall create dependency upon pharmaceuticals, and, as explained by Mark Fisher, these power processes even blame the victims of this metastatic power for their illness.
People within the Bitcoin sphere talk about measuring value, about ‘Bitcoin as Infrastructure’ but the first and most important measurement we need to make is that nature has inherent value and that people have inherent value. In order to justify flying an aeroplane in the UK, the risk reduction and safety measures price a life at $10 million. In order to build a road in the UK, the safety measures price a life at $1.5 million. In order to operate a social media platform the current price of life is zero, the price of mental health is therefore also a fraction of zero: zero, the price of any health whatsoever is also a fraction of zero: also zero. This is not a basis upon which anything of real lasting value is built, and that’s why it is insane, and the mis-pricing of the same thing also explains why a lot of other things are insane as well. It explains homelessness, addiction, mental illness, toxic social media, fake news and more. If we just said no to more things that didn’t value what’s precious in life, the world would be a much better place.
The more we think like James Jones, the more we give back to nature to heal itself, and the more we give ourselves the gift of forgiveness and accept the natural and perfectly compositional technologies of Mother Nature’s healing to take over. Mankind in the 20th and 21st century made enough of a mess of both ourselves and the planet, let’s just stop making a bigger one. We can have both markets and mass ownership of the means of production, we can have both prosperity and sustainability in a circular economy. We can have these things if we choose to have them, but if we choose to continue on our current path, then we will follow that path into the abyss. Even in so much as aliens might influence events on this planet, what happens is always the result of human choices, in my view. Nothing exists that’s not been engineered into existence by someone: good or bad.
TTFN