That escalated quickly

 

Background: Professor Dave constantly attacks mathematician and gadfly Eric Weinstein, probably for political reasons. Weinstein is allied with Peter Thiel, while Dave pretends to be a "leftist". Thiel is the man who "created" J D Vance. Since most physicists regard Weinstein´s theory of everything (known as Geometric Unity) as pseudo-science or "not even wrong", Dave can pretend to be a valiant knight for Science (TM) when attacking Thiel´s alleged errand boy. 

Quantum physicist and science influencer Sabine Hossenfelder is apparently a friend of Eric´s, which may or may not explain Dave´s attacks on *her*. Are they also politically motivated? 

In the video above, Sabine accuses Weinstein´s detractors of hypocrisy. Yes, Geometric Unity isn´t really a "theory" blah-blah but everything else in theoretical physics is BS anyway, so on that score, Weinstein´s speculations are neither better nor worse than those of everyone else "working" in the field! For instance, the guys who gave us string theory.

This might get really ugly really fast. Sabine, how dare you?!   

SpaceX down

 

I suppose this means that Peter Thiel is now officially the leading tech oligarch in DC. As for the America Party, it seems to have a certain family likeness with Kanye´s Birthday Party. For instance, that it doesn´t really exist!

A bit "autistic" of Elon to break relations with the Man in this way. But perhaps he´s banking on the Trump admin collapsing rather spectacularly in the near future? Rather than morphing into a more standard GOP administration (busted budget ceilings and all) with immigration visas and subsidies to space tech companies...

Elon Musk says he is launching a new party 

Mefisto´s dream

 

 

Some controversial stuff overheard on X. Both Thiel´s absurd takes and Spencer´s comments. Ahem, "Jewish" world denial...?  

Spencer on Thiel

Alex Jones + Sauron = true?

 

Progressive commentator Stephen Woodford attacks Alex Jones, the crazy conspiracy theorist who is apparently more "realistic" these days... 

Keep your friends close...

 

...and your enemies even closer? Conspiracy theory on the web: Musk, Thiel and Vance are pro-Russian assets and are coming for Trump.  

AI *knows*

 

It seems ChatGPT has a slight anti-establishment edge...

What is "The Event"? Is that an apocalyptic conspiracy theory? Do some rich people believe in it?

Yes, "The Event" is a term that has circulated in several contexts—some speculative, some philosophical, and some deeply conspiratorial. Let's break down what it refers to and in what circles it's taken seriously, including among some elites.

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1. "The Event" in Apocalyptic or Conspiracy Theory Circles

In this context, "The Event" typically refers to a future cataclysmic or transformative moment—a sudden collapse of society, a technological singularity, a mass awakening, or even alien disclosure. It’s vague on purpose, which makes it a useful placeholder for various doomsday or “reset” scenarios.

Common Features:

• Economic or societal collapse

• Breakdown of civilization due to climate, AI, nuclear war, or political upheaval

• A mass consciousness shift or spiritual awakening

• Supernatural or extraterrestrial intervention

This term is especially popular in:

• New Age subcultures (where it's often seen as a "mass ascension")

• Conspiracy forums like 4chan/8kun, QAnon spaces

• Techno-doomers and prepper communities

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2. "The Event" and the Super-Rich

The connection between "The Event" and wealthy elites became widely discussed after an essay by Douglas Rushkoff called "Survival of the Richest" (and later a book of the same name). In a 2018 Medium article titled “The Survival of the Richest”, Rushkoff described being invited to speak to a group of ultra-wealthy men who asked:

“How do I maintain control of my security force after the Event?”

They weren't interested in the future of technology or ethics, but rather in preparing for a world after society collapses—whether due to climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, or AI. They asked about:

• Building underground bunkers

• Employing loyalty systems for guards

• Managing remote food and energy supplies

These weren’t fringe figures—they were tech billionaires and hedge fund managers, people who already shape our digital and economic ecosystems.

So yes, some wealthy people do believe in a version of "The Event", and they are investing in doomsday bunkers, offshore properties, and private security in anticipation of it.

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3. Is It Just a Conspiracy Theory?

Not necessarily—at least not in all forms.

• Plausible threats: Climate collapse, pandemics, geopolitical instability, and AI risks are real and studied seriously by scientists, military planners, and policymakers.

• The conspiratorial spin happens when you add secret cabals, hidden knowledge, aliens, or prophecies.

• The philosophical concern is that people with power may be preparing for collapse instead of preventing it, effectively treating most of humanity as collateral.

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4. Other Uses of "The Event"

• Alain Badiou (philosopher) uses the Event as a concept for radical change—something unpredictable that redefines reality (e.g., a revolution, a scientific discovery).

• Spiritual/New Age groups often describe "The Event" as a coming energetic shift, spiritual awakening, or cosmic alignment.

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Summary

Context	What “The Event” Means	Who Believes in It
Conspiracy / Apocalyptic	Collapse of society, aliens, mass awakening	QAnon, New Age, preppers
Wealthy elites / Tech circles	Civilizational breakdown due to tech/climate	Some billionaires, hedge funders
Philosophy (Badiou)	Radical rupture in reality/knowledge	Philosophers, theorists
Spiritual / New Age	Sudden ascension or vibrational shift	Lightworkers, mystics

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Would you like a deeper dive into one of these (e.g., the elite prepper mindset, Badiou’s theory of the Event, or how this connects to Buddhist or Zen ideas)?

Yes, the elite prepper mindset.

Great choice—the elite prepper mindset is both fascinating and deeply unsettling, because it reflects how some of the most powerful people in the world are thinking about the future of civilization, often in ways that are more escapist than constructive.

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🏦 What Is the Elite Prepper Mindset?

At its core, this mindset is driven by a belief (or fear) that:

Societal collapse is not only possible but likely, and that personal wealth and technology can be leveraged to survive and control the aftermath.

Unlike traditional preppers (who might store canned food and learn survival skills), elite preppers are ultra-wealthy individuals—often tech executives, investors, or entrepreneurs—who have the means to:

• Build luxury survival compounds in remote locations (New Zealand, the American Rockies, etc.)

• Employ private security teams for post-collapse enforcement

• Secure off-grid infrastructure: solar energy, water purification, satellite internet

• Stockpile crypto or hard assets in case of monetary collapse

This is not hypothetical. It’s documented in reports, interviews, and firsthand accounts.

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🔍 Key Characteristics

1. Outsourcing Survival

They tend to see collapse as an engineering or security problem:

• How can I keep my security team loyal when money is worthless?

• Can I implant kill-switches in AI or drones?

• What food systems can I automate?

This creates a strange paradox: the more they fear collapse, the more they try to insulate themselves, not fix root problems.

2. Technological Solipsism

They believe technology can outpace or buffer reality. This includes:

• Uploading consciousness

• Life extension

• Escaping to Mars (Elon Musk-style)

• Creating isolated digital or physical “safe zones”

It’s a mindset that often mirrors the same Silicon Valley ethos that created many of our current systemic problems—disruptive innovation without accountability.

3. Control Anxiety

Rushkoff reports that some of these elites obsessively ask:

“How do I maintain control of my guards after the collapse?”

They fear not just the collapse, but loss of hierarchy, of being in control. This reflects an underlying mistrust of human solidarity—especially among the people they may need most after an “Event.”

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🤯 Real-World Examples

1. New Zealand as a Safe Haven

• Billionaires like Peter Thiel (PayPal, Palantir) bought land and citizenship in New Zealand.

• The country is seen as remote, stable, self-sufficient, and nuclear-fallout-proof.

2. Luxury Bunkers

• Companies like Rising S Company and Oppidum offer $5–20 million bunkers with:

  • Pools, theaters, medical clinics

  • Decontamination zones

  • Private data centers

• These bunkers are hidden in the US, Czech Republic, or remote parts of Europe.

3. Silicon Valley Retreats

• Tech moguls often buy large tracts of land in Hawaii, Montana, or Texas—away from population centers.

• Some invest in space colonization (e.g., Elon Musk) as a long-term exit strategy.

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🧠 What Drives This Mindset?

• Control over chaos: A continuation of the capitalist impulse to manage risk and externalize costs.

• Mistrust of the public: Fear that once systems fail, the masses will become violent or resentful.

• Pessimism: Despite public optimism, many elites privately believe the system is unsustainable.

• Moral detachment: Instead of solidarity or reform, the impulse is often to opt out.

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🧘‍♂️ Ethical and Existential Critique

Rushkoff and others point out the irony:

The people who’ve benefited most from a broken system are planning to abandon it rather than fix it.

This reflects what he calls “The Mindset”:

A belief that with enough money and tech, you can transcend the consequences of your own actions—rather than take responsibility for them.

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🤔 Why Should We Care?

Because it reveals:

• How privilege reshapes survivalism: not community resilience, but individual escape.

• That collapse is not just feared—some are actively preparing for it while still profiting from extractive systems.

• The real challenge of the future might be less about lack of solutions and more about lack of collective will.

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If you're interested, I can also explore:

• The psychology of elite preppers

• The history of collapse and elite behavior (e.g., Roman elites, Weimar Germany)

• Alternative responses like regenerative communities, degrowth, or Buddhist-inspired resilience strategies  What is the psychology of elite preppers?

  • The psychology of elite preppers—wealthy individuals preparing for societal collapse—reveals a deeply paradoxical mindset shaped by fear, control, alienation, and technocratic thinking. Unlike traditional survivalists motivated by self-reliance or political ideology, elite preppers often inhabit a uniquely hyper-rational yet emotionally defensive worldview, shaped by their wealth, privilege, and detachment from the average person.

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  🧠 1. Control Obsession

  “How do I maintain authority over my security team when money has no value?”

  This chilling question, reported by media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, captures the central fear: not just collapse, but loss of power. Elite preppers often conflate survival with command. Their preps are about maintaining hierarchy—not living harmoniously in a post-collapse world.

  Psychological traits:

  • Authoritarian leanings: Even if libertarian on paper, many express a latent desire for top-down control in crisis.

  • Mistrust of others: They fear betrayal, insubordination, or resentment from those they’ll depend on.

  • Transactional relationships: Loyalty is expected to be bought, not earned or built.

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  🧊 2. Detachment & Alienation

  Many elites live in bubbles of affluence—rarely exposed to the public sphere except through curated experiences.

  Psychological outcomes:

  • Othering of the masses: The rest of humanity is seen as unpredictable, irrational, or dangerous—especially in crisis.

  • Emotional isolation: Wealth can insulate from genuine human interdependence, making empathy and trust feel risky.

  • Lack of communal imagination: They struggle to envision collective solutions or democratic resilience.

  In essence: “I can’t fix society, but I can escape it.”

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  🔧 3. Technological Salvationism

  "I can solve collapse with enough tools, money, and code."

  Elite preppers often suffer from a deep faith in technofixes—a belief that any problem (climate, mortality, rebellion) can be solved through innovation or strategic planning.

  Traits:

  • Instrumental thinking: People become variables in a problem set, not collaborators.

  • Transhumanist fantasies: Uploading consciousness, extending life, leaving Earth.

  • Avoidance of moral responsibility: Technology is seen as a neutral force, not a tool with ethical implications.

  This mindset externalizes problems (they’re “out there”) and privatizes solutions (they’re mine to build).

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  🧨 4. Apocalypse as Fantasy

  Paradoxically, many elite preppers are not just afraid of collapse—they’re romantically drawn to it.

  Why?

  • Ego preservation: Collapse becomes a kind of ultimate challenge, where they can prove their superiority.

  • Clean slate mentality: A reset means they don’t have to be accountable for current injustices.

  • Moral simplification: In crisis, complex social responsibilities disappear. Survival becomes the only “virtue.”

  As cultural critic Mark O'Connell notes, there’s a weird exhilaration in imagining being the last one standing, especially for those used to winning.

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  ⚠️ 5. Hyperindividualism

  This may be the core trait. Elite preppers often cannot imagine collective resilience, only individual escape.

  They frame their survival in terms of:

  • Self-sufficiency (which is illusory if you need a staff)

  • Private ownership (land, bunkers, airstrips)

  • Outsourcing everything: Food, security, health—all managed by hired help

  They embody the extreme of neoliberal logic: privatize even the apocalypse.

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  🧘‍♂️ Reflection: A Psychological Paradox

  Trait	Apparent Strength	Hidden Weakness
  Rational foresight	Planning for collapse	Fear-driven control
  Resource control	Bunker, staff, tech	Dependency on loyalty and systems
  Tech optimism	Belief in solving anything	Denial of moral/social responsibility
  Individualism	Escape from the crowd	Inability to build collective futures

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  🧩 Final Thought

  Elite prepping is not just survivalism with a bigger budget—it’s a mirror into the psychological architecture of late capitalism:

  • Profit from the system → distrust the system → escape the system
    Rather than healing or transforming what’s broken, the instinct is to opt out—alone, armored, and afraid.

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  Would you like to explore:

  • The history of elites during collapse (Rome, Mayans, Easter Island)?

  • Psychological alternatives to elite prepping (solidarity, degrowth, Buddhist detachment)?

  • Or the media and pop culture representation of this mindset (e.g., Don’t Look Up, Elysium, Station Eleven).

Koloni

 

Det anmärkningsvärda med nedanstående är inte att Palantirs brittiska chef är Mosleys sonson, utan att ett företag med kopplingar till Trump och Vance har fått ett fotfäste i den brittiska statsapparaten *under en Labour-regering*. 

Vilket på något sätt bekräftar att Storbritannien är en amerikansk "koloni" i Europa. Och det i sin tur kan skapa framtida konflikter med kontinental-Europa. Låter bekant, eller hur?  

Oswald Mosleys sonson går i farfars ideologiska fotspår

Changeling

 

Why aren´t there more conspiracy theories about J D Vance? This "man for all seasons" seems to have changed both his name, his looks and his views in order to become Trump´s veep. And his voice? And his body language?! 

*Is it really the same J D Vance that was elected senator for Ohio in 2022*? If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has body doubles while Joe Biden had five of them, what are we to make of this?

Is it possible that the elected senator was an alien, while the current vice president is the human substitute? Maybe Alex Jones should take a look at this...  

Original Xweet

Crystal ball

 

In Tolkien´s "Lord of the Rings" (or at least in the LOTR films), Sauron uses magical crystal balls known as palantírs to spy on Middle Earth. The palantírs are Sauron´s "eyes". Or a fantasy-esque form of surveillence technology, if you like. However, the sinister crystals can also be used to brainwash and control select people. Thus, the wizard Saruman (who was originally good) is "turned" and joins the dark side through the power of Sauron transmitted by one of the palantírs. 

And yeah, after reading Wiki´s nerdy entry on the topic, I realize that the full story is much more subtle than in Jackson´s movie adaption. But...

While created by the Elves, the palantírs are at best ambivalent, at worst evil. Apparently, they were Tolkien´s Christian-inspired warning against magic and pagan divination. Which still makes it...I don´t know...strange that Peter Thiel calls his computer software business Palantir. Yes, this would be the same Thiel who "created" J D Vance, the current vice president of the United States and heir-apparent to a certain Donald Trump. So who is Sauron and who is Saruman in this scenario? Asking for a friend named Gandalf!

Thiel has double citizenship, the US and New Zealand. It´s almost as if I want to write a science fiction short story in which Thiel and Vance tries to overthrow Trump, fails, Thiel escaping to New Zealand in the process. The story ends with Trump ordering the Joint Chiefs of Staff to invade the Pacific island-nation (a US ally). Suspense ending! 

Or is this too realistic? I mean, I don´t want to get arrested next time I show my ass in the Lower 48. Or on the North Island, for that matter. 

Vilken fråga

 

LOL. Förenta Staterna har såklart varit en oligarki i minst 100 år. Kanske längre. Skillnaden är kanske att Rockefellers, Rotschilds eller Henry Ford var smartare. De verkar ha kontrollerat riktiga banker och/eller företag också, med riktiga (?) pengar resp. verklig produktion. En av dem var visst vicepresident också. 

Men vad fan kontrollerar Zucc eller Musk? Dina kokrecept? Rymdraketer som inte ens kan flyga? Men okej, de både startar och kommer ner...

Nästan som att man föredrar äldre tiders oligarki. Då även Big Labor och Big Ethnic Machine kunde sitta med vid bordet och pösa. 

Håller en oligarki på att växa fram i USA?

Crazy days and nights

 

Is QAnon back? A "blind item" predicts another assassination attempt on Trump, and so on. 

This bodes darkly 

The Future Police

 

An article from 2022 about a bizarre new cult in California. It seems to have exactly two members, both of whom are pretty kookish while fancying themselves to be Übermenschen. Still, there is something disturbing and familiar about "House Collins" or "The Future Police", as they style themselves (all two of them). 

Yes, there seems to be a connection to more "respectable" views held by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the so-called longtermists. That, and more! Think elitism, eugenics, pronatalism, AI worship, transhumanism... 

Is this the actual new "religion" of the super-rich of late capitalism/modernity?  

The Religion of the Future Police

Trump´s secret cabal?

 

I don´t think Sabine Hossenfelder takes the (de)population crisis seriously, per the second video, apparently hoping that birth rates will bounce right back (and right up) in the future...forgetting her own fears of a severe climate crisis for the moment. 

Even so, the first video (posted last year) is still quite interesting. It deals with "longtermism", a murky philosophy loosely connected to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. On the one hand, longtermists believe in perpetual progress, the conquest of the galaxy, and such. For that reason, the current generation must make sacrifices for the benefit of future ones. The main "sacrifice" seems to be having more children. 

However, the longtermists also oppose aiding victims of famine and disaster *today*, arguing that future lives are worth billions more. They have a fratricidal relationship to a movement known as Effective Altruism, headed by none other than Peter Singer, which supports such aid. It seems many supporters of longtermism are former fanboys of Singer who switched sides! 

Of course, a cabal of elite intellectuals backed by the super-rich who want to sacrifice one billion people (implied in one of the texts quoted in the video) is bound to arise suspicion. Especially if it´s coupled with a vision of a world ruled by technocrats and big capitalists. It seems the futuristic plans of the longtermists have very concrete consequences in the present. I mean, who knew? Presumably the plan is to stop depopulation, while getting rid of "the dead weight" at the same time. Somehow, the longtermists imagine that this will save the (globalist) system. Or is it *their* system, perhaps?

It may or may not be significant that Musk and Thiel both back Trump. But then, Soros and other zillionaires back the Democrats. So there´s that.

Personally, I wouldn´t worry. I mean, what are the chances that any of these factions have any kind of solutions whatsoever, even to *their own* predicament?   

Global tea party and Tech Trump

 

An interesting article from 2016 about Steven Bannon and Peter Thiel. We´ve met Bannon before, but I never really paid any attention to Thiel, who seems to have brokered Trump´s VP pick Vance. The article is written from a "liberal" perspective and hence never asks the 10,000 dollar question: what if "democracy" really is fucked?  

The Anti-Democratic Worldview of Steven Bannon and Peter Thiel

Place holder?

 

Vox Day doesn´t like J D Vance. In case you´re interested...

Note the comments that Peter Thiel will become the real Vice President. And who is Thiel? See Wikipedia link!

No leader of men: J D Vance is a low Delta...if we´re lucky

Two strikes

Peter Thiel (from Wikipedia)