The philosopher influencing MAGA, the Tech Bros and the Technocrats & This Week's Most Popular Must-Reads - 17-23 February 2025

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Welcome readers! Dive into this week’s Must-Reads for Sunday 23 February 2025. Share your thoughts and join the conversation by commenting on stories that resonate with you.

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🔦 Editor’s Spotlight

• Meet the Man Whose Philosophy Has Influenced Peter Thiel and the Technocrats.

  • By gaining a deeper understanding of the philosophy behind Peter Thiel, we can learn where the second Trump administration is headed.

  • One of the largest influences on Thiel’s thinking is a man named Curtis Yarvin, sometimes known by his pen name Mencius Moldbug. Yarvin and fellow philosopher Nick Land founded the school of thought known as the Dark Enlightenment, or the Neo-Reactionary movement.

  • Specifically, Yarvin has argued that American Democracy has failed and should be replaced by a monarchy with similarities to corporate governance structures. He has called for a “national CEO, [or] what’s called a dictator.”

  • Yarvin argues that the libertarian appeal to self-ownership and individual liberty will always fail without some sort of overarching mechanism to enforce order, be that a monarch or a technocrat.

  • His arguments have increasingly held sway as more libertarians (and the population in general) find themselves powerless to fight back against Progressive elites. Many Americans are now hoping to be saved by a “counter-elite” in the form of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Donald Trump.

  • The parallels between Thomas Carlyle’s vision, Curtis Yarvin’s calls for monarchy, The Machiavellian’s support of a counter-elite, Peter Thiel’s support of Yarvin’s ideas, and what we are witnessing with the Technocratic takeover of the U.S. government are obvious to anyone willing to take an honest look.

  • It is this idea of the inevitability of the masses being ruled by the elites which has inspired Andreesen, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, and other technocrats surrounding Donald Trump. In essence, it is likely they view themselves as the “counter-elite” whose job is to wrestle society away from the grips of the failed, tyrannical Progressive elite.

  • Unfortunately, for the rest of us in “the masses” we are facing a situation where the “Progressive elite” and the “Tech-Bro Populists” BOTH want to create a world run by artificial intelligence, where humans merge with machines, and are under the watch of an all pervasive surveillance state monitored by facial recognition cameras connected to a Smart Grid.

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📖 Today’s Book

• Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles

  

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🎞️ Worth Watching

• Munich Security Conference chairman starts crying because of JD Vance’s hurty words.

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🥊 Quick Hits

• Washington in Meltdown as Bureaucrats Flee.

  Searches for “Swiss bank,” “wire money,” “IBAN,” and “offshore bank” have all soared in D.C. since January 20.

• Curtis Yarvin: The Pied Piper Behind The TechBros’ Intended Destruction Of America.

  Yarvin calls the administrative state the Cathedral, roughy analogous to the Deep State or the Swamp. He wants to destroy democracy and supplant it with a corporate-like structure with a monarch calling the shots.

• This is how Ukraine’s war ends. But Trump’s plan for what comes next is even more radical.

  The fear of some European officials is that this is not merely an American retreat, but the emergence of a new world order – a world order in which Ukraine is simply a card to be played.

• Baerbock lets slip: Billions for Ukraine after the election.

  The EU actually wanted to keep the weapons project secret until after the federal election. But Annalena Baerbock let the cat out of the bag.

• Coup in Kiev: Zelensky abuses peace talks to take out rivals.

  An attempt to eliminate the influence of former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko could be Zelensky’s last mistake.

• Man jailed for sending 'utterly deplorable' email to Jess Phillips.

  Jack Bennett has been sentenced to 28 weeks in prison. District Judge Stuart Smith said the email to Ms Phillips had caused the MP "great distress".

• The breakdown of the CIA - Agents can't cope with danger.

  The CIA does not have true undercover agents, genuinely competent intelligence officers who can enter foreign countries covertly, that is through legal entry points but with a persuasive false identity, or else in clandestine fashion by slipping over the border undetected.

• Why are U.S. banks flying gold from London to New York?

  About 8,000 gold bars have been moved out of the Bank of England’s vaults in recent months.

• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer quits sex-trafficking case: ‘Under no circumstances can I continue’.

  Anthony Ricco filed a motion Thursday to withdraw as one of the Bad Boy Records’ six defense attorneys without explanation.

• Not a government but a giant money laundering racket.

  The New EPA chief has just tracked down another $2 billion handed out to a 2-bit nothing climate entity at the last minute. It’s only a tiny part of the Monster Swamp but it captures the spirit of bald-faced looting that was The US bloated Government.

• Covid vaccine faces ban for all Americans in radical U-turn by Trump team.

  Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who has been nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has backed a petition calling for the mRNA vaccines to be paused and retested. He is one of the signatories of the Hope Accord, which claims there is a 'causal link' between the mRNA shots and an alarming rise in excess deaths worldwide.

• Everyone's sick this winter. What’s up with flu, norovirus, RSV and COVID?

  Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections have reached the highest level since the winter of 2010 and 2011 when the swine flu swept across the nation.

• RFK Jr.-led CDC kills flu shot campaign, cancels major vaccination conference.

  Under Kennedy’s leadership, the CDC pulled the plug on its “Wild to Mild initiative” — which was aimed at encouraging high-risk folks to get vaxxed.

• The Congressional Record on Covid Vaccines: Corrections

  Bret Swanson writes to Chairman of the Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to draw his attention to one brief section on vaccines and invites him to correct the record. The short but crucial claim upends the truth and scrambles the entire narrative of the pandemic.

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👀 In Case You Missed It

• Susan Crockford fired after finding polar bears thriving despite climate change.

  She noted that the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s 2015 Red List of Threatened Species puts polar bear numbers at 22,000 to 31,000 despite a widespread belief that the population has dropped to a few thousand.

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🗑️ Must NOT Reads

• How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order.

  The Economist says that by trying to make peace in Ukraine “the region has had its bleakest week since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The implications have yet to sink in”

  

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💎 Fascinating Finds

• Scientists finally crack mystery of eerie ‘ghost lantern’ orbs linked to strange whispers and slamming doors.

  Earthquake lights have been observed around the world as glowing spheres, sparks, pillars and other shapes.

• The Grand Solar Minimum is Here.

  Professor Zharkova says that we are experiencing a long-term global warming but that it has little to do with CO2. It’s the Sun, stupid - and the Milankovitch and Halstatt Cycles. The upcoming mini-ice age will be a brief downturn in an overall warming trend that will last until about the year 2600 due to the Halsatt or Bray cycle which is reducing the Earth to Sun distance. Then it’s going to start getting colder again as the cycle starts to increase the Earth/Sun distance and the Milanovitch Cycles begin to have the greater influence.

• Scientists capture end-of-life brain activity that could prove humans have souls.

  A mysterious burst of energy that happens in the brain as we die could be the soul leaving the body, according to an expert.

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