🧵 [1/28]   A thread that builds on the previous one regarding the devious art of social engineering. We now look at how the Third Culture has helped to create the Fourth Industrial Revolution. #4IR

Initial inspiration came from this Dave Troy article about John Brockman’s Edge Foundation and its ties into the web of intrigue around Jeffrey #Epstein and Ghislaine #Maxwell:
x.com/davetroy/statu… [2/28]  First a few basics on the Edge Foundation that enables us to understand what follows.

These segments from their biography portray it as a secretive society with a wide interest, a historical mission, and a desire to integrate all knowledge. It focuses on scientific progress and the breaking of boundaries.edge.org

🧵  [1/19]  I often talk about the concept of ‘social engineers’ and their attempts at manipulating daily life. Now what does that mean?

This thread explains some of the basics on that topic as necessary groundwork for more advanced things to come. These are my findings and conclusions after twenty years of research including ten years of writing. None of this has been published, yet, as it is still a work in progress. [2/19]  Here a good book to start with, detailing how the socio-economic situation in the United States of America proved fertile ground for these practices. Things that ‘worked’ here were then eagerly copied elsewhere. Often in more authoritarian societies since it is easier to make quick progress there.

The world as a laboratory; an incredibly important theme that explains só many things we see happening around us.

In some capacity social engineering has existed since the dawn of Civilization, but its potential skyrocketed with the introduction of science and the guiding light of life — the Scientific Revolution.

The author points out that we must focus on areas including sociology, genetics, anthropology, theology, economics, mathematics and ecology — with the added caveat that social engineers use elements of all these fields and mix them in such a way that they can be effectively weaponized.

🧵 [1/20] A thread on the entangled history of faith and fate, loosely inspired by this Substack article on #Spinoza and #Technocracy.

At first glance Enlightenment philosophy and #DarkEnlightenment autocracy do not seem related, but at closer look they most definitively are.

https://twitter.com/CourtenayTurner/status/1977490367714066714

[2/20] Let’s start with some basic definitions:

Faith — Trust in the reliability of God and/or belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion.

Fate — A predetermined course of human events believed to be controlled by a higher power beyond our direct reach.

🧵 [1/x] Many experts have pointed at the parallels between today and the 1930s. While it is easy to turn to Weimar Germany and its successor, a regime further south can teach us equally important lessons. [2/x] A recent biography of Italian #fascism — Blood and Power [2023] by historian John Foot — provides us with some interesting clues as to what is happening in the US and Europe. That is, passivity of authorities and a growing aggression against a largely imaginary ‘Left’.