Smoke Up Your A__: Things Aren't What They Seem
Today’s post is a bit of a change up. Yes I know— everyone needed a break from history. Here are three different analyses on things happening in the world;the first a look at what is happening at the Department of Education, the second a different take on what DOGE is up to and the third a critique of the trade wars.
VIDEO ONE: EDUCATION
So….the Department of Education is being dismantled? Oh wait…the funds are still in place and the entitlements are still binding because legally congress must act to rescind. So what’s changing? It looks like they are following Project 2025 playbook created by Heritage Foundation even though Trump has disavowed knowing much about it even while he surrounds himself with those who ARE well acquainted.
I found John Klyczek, a mentee of Charlote Iserbyt, author of Dumming Us Down, to have some interesting insights as to what MAY be going on below the surface.
VIDEO TWO: DOGE
And secondly, a different video, this one by Patrick Wook, author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation, in which he prompts an AI search engine called Perplexity with the following prompt…
List all the people who are from the tech sector and who are considered technocrats and who have been appointed by Donald Trump in 2025. Include informal advisors like Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and anybody who has been mentored by Thiel or who was a member of the PayPal mafia. Are there any shared objectives by these technocrats?
His findings are very interesting and center around a Silicon Valley “philosopher” named Curtis Yarvin who is highly influential—but incredibly anti-democractic.
From the New York Times:
But while Yarvin himself may still be obscure, his ideas are not. Vice President-elect JD Vance has alluded to Yarvin’s notions of forcibly ridding American institutions of so-called wokeism. The incoming State Department official Michael Anton has spoken with Yarvin about how an “American Caesar” might be installed into power. And Yarvin also has fans in the powerful, and increasingly political, ranks of Silicon Valley. Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist turned informal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, has approvingly cited Yarvin’s anti-democratic thinking. And Peter Thiel, a conservative megadonor who invested in a tech start-up of Yarvin’s, has called him a “powerful” historian. Perhaps unsurprising given all this, Yarvin has become a fixture of the right-wing media universe: He has been a guest on the shows of Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk, among others. NYT
Of course, it seems wonderful if all that is being done is gutting government bloat and waste but it’s not likely. For instance, shouldn’t it be just as essential to cut all those corporate subsidies starting with Musk’s companies and then moving out from there?
Yarvin’s core argument hinges on the belief that democracy is inherently flawed, describing it as a“facade” controlled by a progressive elite he terms “the Cathedral” — a coalition of academia,media, and government bureaucracies that enforce ideological conformity. He posits that these institutions perpetuate inefficiency and moral decay, necessitating their replacement by a sovereign authority akin to a corporate CEO.
Yarvin is a sophist. And while he hits on the fact that democracy is “flawed” [ I would say gamed, hijacked or corrupted], he points the finger at the wrong culprit. [Academia, media, government bureaucracies are controlled by the money behind them]. His solution…rule by CEO misses the mark as well. Honestly…we already live in a Corporatocracy, with the global finanical mafia pulling the strings behind the facade of democracy.
Are we moving toward pulling down the facade? Corporate “nation states” ruled by a digital infrastructure minus the fuss and chaos of “democratic” rule? Oh, to be ruled by the likes of Bill Gates or Tim Cook, angels of mercy, patiently waiting in the wings, and here to save the day, as luck would have it.
Yarvin’s shtick is not particularly new. Academics have been drooing over scientific management since the early 1900’s inlcuding Walter Lippmann, the so called-Great Journalist.
AMERICA, INC.? Listen in and make your own decision
Note that in the past, Mr. Wood has suffered a light stroke making the video a bit choppy.
Here is another option to learn more about Yarvin.
Yarvin's Interview with Tucker
VIDEO THREE: TRADE WARS
And finally, here is the ever informative and insightful James Corbett…on trade wars.
And please when speaking about world, let’s not use their terms, like technocracy because it hides behind a layer of subterfuge that makes grasping the dirt of the real world with our own hands more difficult.
Who runs the tech? Global Mafia? Corporate Gangsters? Both seem to be aligned more closely with reality. Technology, in fact rules nothing; it is a tool, a very powerful tool, but still just a tool. Technocracy is a nonsense word.
CARROTS OFFERED IN ALL REFORM MOVEMENTS ARE NEVER BEEN WHAT THEY SEEM..
We should be thinking like Smart Sheepe…not dummies.
Enjoy digging beneath the surface of things—It’s never what they say it is!