Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno – Authoritarian Ideas. [Opinion].

Who or What is Preparing to Take Over After Donald Trump? Courtesy, The New Republic | Photo NY Times. Top. | July 22, 2024 | Opinion. Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society. In 2008, a software… Read More Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno – Authoritarian Ideas. [Opinion].

March 5, 2025March 14, 2025 SDH

RFK Jr. On Kamala Harris, Warns of “Totalitarianism”

“A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity” “What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs, or runs it candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. President colludes with or outright… Read More RFK Jr. On Kamala Harris, Warns of “Totalitarianism”

September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 SDH

No Thank You, Elon.

Updated: Neuralink Corporation is a neurotechnology company that develops implantable brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). Co-founded by Elon Musk, Max Hodak and Paul Merolla, the company’s headquarters is in the Pioneer Building in San Francisco sharing offices with OpenAI.[5] Neuralink was launched in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017.[1][6] —Wikipedia Telegraph UK. “His reasons to do this are two-fold. At one level, he sees an… Read More No Thank You, Elon.

November 30, 2022January 4, 2025 SDH

Eco-extremists are leading the world towards despair, poverty, and starvation

The Telegraph, UK. Utopian solutions for saving the planet are doomed to failure – and worse. We must wake up before it is too late. Jordan Peterson 28 October 2022 •l This winter, millions of British citizens, including children, will be tipped, or dumped, into energy poverty severe enough to risk permanent damage to their health. Cold,… Read More Eco-extremists are leading the world towards despair, poverty, and starvation

November 1, 2022November 7, 2022 SDH

The Psychology of Totalitarianism.

“In the summer and fall of 2021, Prof. Mattias Desmet appeared widely on the internet and in print as he discussed his theory of “mass formation,” or “mass formation psychosis” as it is sometimes called, especially in regard to the government reaction (and overreaction) to the Covid pandemic. Most interesting to Desmet was how many… Read More The Psychology of Totalitarianism.

June 13, 2022September 4, 2022 SDH

Morality in the Age of Machines.

Ireland’s John Waters writes, “As things stand, it appears that artificial intelligence, while capable of outperforming humans in certain tasks and reckonings, still requires human supervision. Being neither sentient nor self-aware, AI cannot reflect on its own processes. It gets things wrong, mainly due to insufficient, poor, or confusing inputs, albeit less so than before.… Read More Morality in the Age of Machines.

March 28, 2022April 4, 2022 SDH

“Democracies Will Change Their Nature”

“…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. “Democracy and freedom will be the theme of… Read More “Democracies Will Change Their Nature”

March 9, 2022April 7, 2023 SDH1 Comment

1963. All Socialists in East Berlin Had Affordable Housing

President John F. Kennedy in the Workers Paradise where all were “equal,” June 26, 1963. Today JFK would likely not be welcome in the new Democratic Party. 10 Most Amazing Berlin Wall Escapes “The Berlin wall was constructed in the early 1960s to divide the city. West-Berlin was capitalist and free, but the East was… Read More 1963. All Socialists in East Berlin Had Affordable Housing

December 4, 2021April 12, 2024 SDHLeave a comment

The Great Liberal Death Wish. Malcolm Muggeridge.

For his honest reporting on the Stalinist show trials Malcolm Muggeridge lost his job and was blacklisted for a time. The following is from 1979. (Drawing by a former Gulag prisoner) “The Great Liberal Death Wish” is a subject that I’ve given a lot of thought to and have written about, and it would be… Read More The Great Liberal Death Wish. Malcolm Muggeridge.

October 8, 2021August 4, 2023 SDHLeave a comment

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