Civil society is the opposite of civil war, which is the health of the State as surely as foreign wars. Civil society is far more than a society of courtesy. It consists of every voluntary interaction, such as economic exchanges, and every voluntary
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video on social media Wednesday, revealing he's launching "The Secretary Kennedy Podcast."
Bill Phillips -- the creator of the so-called "Phillips Curve," which is still central to economic discussions -- took a really creative approach to studying the economy.
In my book Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (2019), I argued that the main danger with AI is not a rogue super-intelligence that might rebel against humanity; the far greater danger is perfect AI obedience.
This chapter dives straight into the deepest corridors of control:
The all-seeing eye, pyramid codes, bloodlines, sigils, and the global theatre of manipulation.
Editor's Introductory Note: The following is a re-post of a 2007 SurvivalBlog article. Given the recent spike in gasoline and diesel fuel prices, I thought that is was apropos to re-post a few articles related to fuel from SurvivalBlog's early da
The AI sprint is hurtling toward a world where anyone can build personal concierges to do everything from executive presentations to March Madness brackets
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"The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control--both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through owned media."
~ Christopher Wylie
Silicon Valley has long existed in an intractable paradox, in that it grew out of a hippie-influenced counterculture in Northern California that ostensibly committed to idealistic notions of peace on Earth or whatever while simultaneously developing
We explore the shifting landscape of media, culture and global politics as the old entertainment system struggles to hold its authority and independent creators reshape the public conversation.
Whilst the once-great "Free World" countries have deteriorated into increasingly socialist and/or fascist police states, other parts of the world have either remained static or have become more free, with greater opportunity than before.
Arthur Schopenhauer understood what most people refuse to accept: logic is powerless against willful ignorance. In this video, we explore Schopenhauer's brutal philosophy on how intelligent minds can protect themselves from the psychologically draini
The biggest crimes stand in the open; what prevents people from seeing them is simply their size and the fact that they are crimes. We can't believe that such large evils are possible.