Fantastic article - thank you yet again!!!! Here’s one of the key points you distill down well: “ People aren't even discussing whether we should have a technocracy - it's barely in the public consciousness, let alone the conversation. Instead, they're merely debating whether they prefer their technocracy with left-wing or right-wing flavor.”
When we go partisan , we miss the plot. Your voice for nonpartisan sober assessment of what’s actually going in is invaluable!
Aw shucks, Debbie :-) Thanks... you always get it.
Your work has been crucial in illuminating (deliberate word choice, heh) these structures too. The left/right framing keeps us distracted from the larger architectural changes happening right under our noses. I wish more people would pay attention to these patterns instead of getting caught in partisan nonsense. As always, I appreciate you being clear-eyed.
I love the concept of reality resilience, a skill or way of being that sorely needed. You’ve really outdone yourself with this one, really distilling the macro and micro with learned clarity.
The MAHA we want cannot happen from the top down. It can help, but to expect a whole lot from the bigwigs is a blind alley.
We gotta take health care into our own hands. And hope that the friendlier administration might help some, or at least not hinder us. Which is not unreasonable.
Kathleen, you're right - and as Erin noted, real transformation can't happen from the top down. The MAHA we want needs to emerge from the grassroots. While a friendlier administration might reduce obstacles, I believe lasting change can only come from communities taking ownership of their health, wellbeing and sovereignty.
No one should trust anyone in politics. It's naivety in the first degree to trust those who only ever destroy you. Trump and his whole agenda is not just a decoy, it's painting a target on the resistance. Ensuring that civil war erupts. The people are being used against each other, to give the globalists fuel for their full lockdowns of resources, and resettlement in smart cities. We are under siege.
For those who prefer to use the Bible as some sort of all-knowing Almanac, it would be Matthew 7:16, By their fruit you will recognize them. For those people who are more into contemporary culture, it is called RE-BRANDING. It remains the same faulty product but it receives a new packaging and some new (old) name. Nothing changes under the Sun is the saying in the West. In the East the saying is slightly different: nothing changes under the Moon. As in most cases, a joy to read your articles, Mr. Stylman.
Why does plain spoken common sense and a holistic wide angle view sound subversive? Why should we be born into a totalitarian carney barker intelligence operation and have to spend years learning the dark arts just to gain a little clarity?
Haha, I don't know whether to take this as a compliment or go hide. But you're asking the right question - why does simply stepping back and looking at patterns feel so radical? Maybe because we're conditioned to stay in our assigned lanes. Appreciate you reading and the encouragement to keep going despite the strangeness of it all.
Oh it's all compliment. I only discovered your writing recently but I find it very resonant. It has the ring of truth, which I believe is a real thing.
As it happens I just posted something about how we're conditioned in your most recent post. It's a book recommendation basically. I think it provides a skeleton key to how our brains work that I think it would resonate with you and everything you talk about. It's called The Matter With Things if you're interested.
Your article is stunning. I rarely encounter someone who can so thoroughly think their way through a problem.
I've realized your conclusions intellectually for years. Yet, as you say, the manufactured reality, especially with emotive contexts, can suck anyone into their net. I was willing to give people "a chance." We want desperately to believe that some truth exists--that we don't live in a prefabricated world.
Lately, however, a deeper intuition has begun surfacing. I'm beginning to "see" without intellectual thinking. I "know" before I think. The process appears akin to my Buddhist chanting which "opens" truths about our lives and selves unknown to us...only, in this instance, I'm not chanting just "seeing."
E.g., I began to see what you describe as the worst examples on the "other side" used to "inform" the political base of the opposite side.
Another has been the appointment of Monarez. Dr. Dave Weldon's nomination was yanked by Trump because senators questioned his ability. "He didn't have enough votes." Then, citing pressures of time, Monarez, as you say, a complete CIA insider, is nominated.
Another, of course, was Kennedy's remarks on anti-semitism as a HEALTH issue. We are being played, my friends.
The agenda going forward: deportations and retreating from DEI compliance + "turn on the oil spigots" and "waste, fraud discovered!" will be the emotive issues as the pathway to singularity intensifies. A very clever ruse is Trump's antiwar stance: "Stop the killing!" Yes...a leader to follow!! A leader in whom to believe!! We are saved!!!
I wrote extensively on my substack about how the Gaza Genocide is being orchestrated. My net conclusions--ruminating without me ruminating--is that the play has been established and the plot well thickened. I pity only the people caught in the middle: who have been designated as expendable at this time. The trouble is...I see clearly how this will become the nature of war later in this century. Groups of people will be designated as expendable, and AI will fight AI, with soldiers hidden in underground bunkers playing with computer screens, and people will perish. They won't have a chance.
RFK is worthless if he can't even end the emergency declarations for covid and sundry other diseases that enable the liability shields and bypassing of clinical trials.
Also, it is the same ARPA-H just recently in the news for sending a cool 35 million or so to a phony company called something like Vaccine Company, Inc. run by an ex Biden covid advisor. The company's only apparent corporate asset is a PO Box. Overseeing that kind of public money laundering is clear grounds for promotion apparently. Job well done.
Another excellent article! I had a feeling this technocracy was headed our way.. JD Vance is the co-founder of Narya Capital and invested in Amplied Bio which has announced a strategic partnership RNAV8 to support MRNA therapeutic developers. RFK has invested in Crispr technology. Financially disclosers released in Jan 2025 reveal he holds invested in Crispr therapeutics which specialists in gene editing technologies, as well as Dragon Fly Therapeutics which focuses on immunotherapies. So, despite his history of expressing concerns against gene-editing therapy— he has made investments. He did state he would divest from these companies if confirmed 🤷🏻♀️ seems like it all adds up though.
One of my favorite lines: “Seek information sources that occasionally challenge your assumptions. Not those that simply outrage you, but those that make you think. The distinction is crucial. Outrage reinforces existing neural pathways; genuine challenge creates new ones.”
I must be careful not to allow Mr. Stylman to become part of the algorithmic reinforcement in my world. This is difficult because I find he crystallises my own thoughts so often.
I am particularly interested in his thoughts about political saviours. They usually do let us down. Here in the UK many of us are suffering the sad experience of watching the Reform Party tear itself apart. Nigel Farage, the leader and owner of Reform (it is a company, not a conventional political party) has fallen out with one of the 5 Reform MPs, Rupert Lowe. The root cause of the problem was that Elon Musk publicly transferred his support from Farage to Lowe. Lowe then accused Farage of ignoring him and weakening Reform's opposition to excessive immigration, and he extended this criticism to Farage personally, accusing him of acting as if he is a Messiah. Farage has responded by doing what he has done to anyone who has ever stood up against him by denigrating and expelling Lowe. I am a paid up "member" of Reform and had a slight hope that it might change British politics and arrest our decline towards economic failure (and, possibly, civil war). That hope has now expired.
I never had much confidence in saviours and now I have none. I am developing an alternative strategy to counter the threat of totalitarianism. Like all great strategies it will have to begin as an intellectual exercise and produce a written manifesto, something as powerful as the writings of Marx, albeit diametrically opposed to his world view. I see it taking the form of a Declaration. I am not capable of writing this myself, but I am doing some groundwork. Mr. Stylman's writings are very helpful to my project and I am pleased that he not only describes the problems we face but also suggests solutions. Spreading the concept of the Undivided Mind must, I think, be an important solution.
Thanks for the thoughtful words. And don't worry about me... I'm just a guy venting at my desk.
I know that feeling of watching promising movements fall apart over personalities rather than principles. The Reform Party situation sounds like a classic case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Your Declaration project sounds intriguing - and hey, if we're all going to be trapped in a reality distortion field, we might as well try building a better one. Good luck.
Excellent piece, Joshua. I so appreciate long-form essays which give nuance, context and expanded argument over the sound bite tweet or news item. It reminds me of Neil Postman's takedown of television, recently summarized by Unbekoming, where we will amuse ourselves to death.
The engineered tribalism is really something to watch when it happens in real time around you, as we clearly saw during 'Covid' and now with TDS calling for physical violence - and not being banned or arrested for it. The political bias is everywhere as it is obvious. But this is a necessity in tribal warfare.
Your point about collective unity regardless of tribe is the greatest fear of the ruling class. Divide and conquer has worked for centuries. Once we realize who our real enemy is, things can begin to change. But not when we depend on government, whichever flavor de jour.
Yes, "Society is now far more machine and algorithm than the spirit of humanity. AI, social media and automation are transforming the human experience. All optimizing for what is now the most important attribute, attention, rather than genuine connection." - https://www.mindprison.cc/p/technology-is-progress
We go into so many things in Life with great hopes and expectations. And too often, these wants and dreams of ours are very quickly dashed. And that does not do much for one’s state and peace of mind and need for positivity.
As Sages have long counseled us... We humans cannot live without hope. At least, not live well, anyway. And that’s our dilemma. We must continue to live with hope in a World that so quickly takes that hope away from us.
We can dictate to the World what our own personal state of mind will be. Or we can let the World dictate to us and legislate that lack of fulfillment to leave us empty and despondent. We make our choice and live with it.
The trouble with Honeymoons is that they always end. They were not meant to last... but to lead and grow into something more stable and grounded and long-lasting. And if a Honeymoon doesn’t lead into that direction it becomes a blind alley and wrong turn in our lives that must be corrected for us to return to our right path.
We cannot put faith in any politician. We cannot put faith in any institution. These are human inventions that quickly become corrupted and dangerous to our minds and bodies. We must find places to put our faith and attention into something higher... something greater than failing human collectives. Because a single person might have some bad ideas. Add a second person and the bad ideas double. Add a third person and beyond... and bad ideas do not just double they multiply by powers and magnitudes beyond. That’s why with most any group of people you will never get anything done because too many people are bringing too many bad ideas into the mixture. And so, ou either get paralysis or you get some kind of ineffective, watered-down mess.
Want to get something done. Do it yourself. Don’t wait for others. Don’t look for help. If you should find assistance... welcome and cherish that and use it. But don’t expect it.
Dark Forces in our World are trying to turn us all into unthinking, unfeeling machines. That is the ageless Dark State Dream of having empty, compliant nothings that serve The State and do nothing else. But that is not who and what we are. We were not put on this Earth to be a Thing to be used and abused and not a free, precious human being. The abusers and the confused among us are those who do not recognize their Divinty within.
Never surrender your innate Divinity. Don’t put your faith in Institutions or in those trying to turn humans either into Things... or the opposite extreme of being false gods or replacements for True Divinity.
Don’t let others do your thinking. Don’t be so weak as to always seek safety in The Crowd. Remember what was said above... and how bad ideas become Squared To Infinity with the addition of each new person to the group.
Guard your life, your being, your thoughts as if your life depended on it.
Fantastic article - thank you yet again!!!! Here’s one of the key points you distill down well: “ People aren't even discussing whether we should have a technocracy - it's barely in the public consciousness, let alone the conversation. Instead, they're merely debating whether they prefer their technocracy with left-wing or right-wing flavor.”
When we go partisan , we miss the plot. Your voice for nonpartisan sober assessment of what’s actually going in is invaluable!
Aw shucks, Debbie :-) Thanks... you always get it.
Your work has been crucial in illuminating (deliberate word choice, heh) these structures too. The left/right framing keeps us distracted from the larger architectural changes happening right under our noses. I wish more people would pay attention to these patterns instead of getting caught in partisan nonsense. As always, I appreciate you being clear-eyed.
I love the concept of reality resilience, a skill or way of being that sorely needed. You’ve really outdone yourself with this one, really distilling the macro and micro with learned clarity.
Thanks, dude. That means a lot coming from you.
As you know, I tend to focus on the macro, but sometimes it's important to see the small details before zooming back out.
Reality resilience is something I've been working to develop in myself - glad to hear it resonated with you.
Yup. Not looking good. May it hasten the larger realization that we-the-people can not and should not rely on government. The sooner the better.
The MAHA we want cannot happen from the top down. It can help, but to expect a whole lot from the bigwigs is a blind alley.
We gotta take health care into our own hands. And hope that the friendlier administration might help some, or at least not hinder us. Which is not unreasonable.
Kathleen, you're right - and as Erin noted, real transformation can't happen from the top down. The MAHA we want needs to emerge from the grassroots. While a friendlier administration might reduce obstacles, I believe lasting change can only come from communities taking ownership of their health, wellbeing and sovereignty.
No one should trust anyone in politics. It's naivety in the first degree to trust those who only ever destroy you. Trump and his whole agenda is not just a decoy, it's painting a target on the resistance. Ensuring that civil war erupts. The people are being used against each other, to give the globalists fuel for their full lockdowns of resources, and resettlement in smart cities. We are under siege.
For those who prefer to use the Bible as some sort of all-knowing Almanac, it would be Matthew 7:16, By their fruit you will recognize them. For those people who are more into contemporary culture, it is called RE-BRANDING. It remains the same faulty product but it receives a new packaging and some new (old) name. Nothing changes under the Sun is the saying in the West. In the East the saying is slightly different: nothing changes under the Moon. As in most cases, a joy to read your articles, Mr. Stylman.
Why does plain spoken common sense and a holistic wide angle view sound subversive? Why should we be born into a totalitarian carney barker intelligence operation and have to spend years learning the dark arts just to gain a little clarity?
Well, whatever it is, keep it coming.
Haha, I don't know whether to take this as a compliment or go hide. But you're asking the right question - why does simply stepping back and looking at patterns feel so radical? Maybe because we're conditioned to stay in our assigned lanes. Appreciate you reading and the encouragement to keep going despite the strangeness of it all.
Oh it's all compliment. I only discovered your writing recently but I find it very resonant. It has the ring of truth, which I believe is a real thing.
As it happens I just posted something about how we're conditioned in your most recent post. It's a book recommendation basically. I think it provides a skeleton key to how our brains work that I think it would resonate with you and everything you talk about. It's called The Matter With Things if you're interested.
I enjoy reading your articles. Thank you!
Excellent article ~ Important insights and reflections
★ "Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems." ~ Nicolas Gomez Davila
Your article is stunning. I rarely encounter someone who can so thoroughly think their way through a problem.
I've realized your conclusions intellectually for years. Yet, as you say, the manufactured reality, especially with emotive contexts, can suck anyone into their net. I was willing to give people "a chance." We want desperately to believe that some truth exists--that we don't live in a prefabricated world.
Lately, however, a deeper intuition has begun surfacing. I'm beginning to "see" without intellectual thinking. I "know" before I think. The process appears akin to my Buddhist chanting which "opens" truths about our lives and selves unknown to us...only, in this instance, I'm not chanting just "seeing."
E.g., I began to see what you describe as the worst examples on the "other side" used to "inform" the political base of the opposite side.
Another has been the appointment of Monarez. Dr. Dave Weldon's nomination was yanked by Trump because senators questioned his ability. "He didn't have enough votes." Then, citing pressures of time, Monarez, as you say, a complete CIA insider, is nominated.
Another, of course, was Kennedy's remarks on anti-semitism as a HEALTH issue. We are being played, my friends.
The agenda going forward: deportations and retreating from DEI compliance + "turn on the oil spigots" and "waste, fraud discovered!" will be the emotive issues as the pathway to singularity intensifies. A very clever ruse is Trump's antiwar stance: "Stop the killing!" Yes...a leader to follow!! A leader in whom to believe!! We are saved!!!
I wrote extensively on my substack about how the Gaza Genocide is being orchestrated. My net conclusions--ruminating without me ruminating--is that the play has been established and the plot well thickened. I pity only the people caught in the middle: who have been designated as expendable at this time. The trouble is...I see clearly how this will become the nature of war later in this century. Groups of people will be designated as expendable, and AI will fight AI, with soldiers hidden in underground bunkers playing with computer screens, and people will perish. They won't have a chance.
RFK is worthless if he can't even end the emergency declarations for covid and sundry other diseases that enable the liability shields and bypassing of clinical trials.
Also, it is the same ARPA-H just recently in the news for sending a cool 35 million or so to a phony company called something like Vaccine Company, Inc. run by an ex Biden covid advisor. The company's only apparent corporate asset is a PO Box. Overseeing that kind of public money laundering is clear grounds for promotion apparently. Job well done.
Yep. These frakkers always have excuses why they can't do good but he'll gladly promote our favorite genocidal ally and their scumbaggery.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-the-hhs-secretary?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Another excellent article! I had a feeling this technocracy was headed our way.. JD Vance is the co-founder of Narya Capital and invested in Amplied Bio which has announced a strategic partnership RNAV8 to support MRNA therapeutic developers. RFK has invested in Crispr technology. Financially disclosers released in Jan 2025 reveal he holds invested in Crispr therapeutics which specialists in gene editing technologies, as well as Dragon Fly Therapeutics which focuses on immunotherapies. So, despite his history of expressing concerns against gene-editing therapy— he has made investments. He did state he would divest from these companies if confirmed 🤷🏻♀️ seems like it all adds up though.
One of my favorite lines: “Seek information sources that occasionally challenge your assumptions. Not those that simply outrage you, but those that make you think. The distinction is crucial. Outrage reinforces existing neural pathways; genuine challenge creates new ones.”
I must be careful not to allow Mr. Stylman to become part of the algorithmic reinforcement in my world. This is difficult because I find he crystallises my own thoughts so often.
I am particularly interested in his thoughts about political saviours. They usually do let us down. Here in the UK many of us are suffering the sad experience of watching the Reform Party tear itself apart. Nigel Farage, the leader and owner of Reform (it is a company, not a conventional political party) has fallen out with one of the 5 Reform MPs, Rupert Lowe. The root cause of the problem was that Elon Musk publicly transferred his support from Farage to Lowe. Lowe then accused Farage of ignoring him and weakening Reform's opposition to excessive immigration, and he extended this criticism to Farage personally, accusing him of acting as if he is a Messiah. Farage has responded by doing what he has done to anyone who has ever stood up against him by denigrating and expelling Lowe. I am a paid up "member" of Reform and had a slight hope that it might change British politics and arrest our decline towards economic failure (and, possibly, civil war). That hope has now expired.
I never had much confidence in saviours and now I have none. I am developing an alternative strategy to counter the threat of totalitarianism. Like all great strategies it will have to begin as an intellectual exercise and produce a written manifesto, something as powerful as the writings of Marx, albeit diametrically opposed to his world view. I see it taking the form of a Declaration. I am not capable of writing this myself, but I am doing some groundwork. Mr. Stylman's writings are very helpful to my project and I am pleased that he not only describes the problems we face but also suggests solutions. Spreading the concept of the Undivided Mind must, I think, be an important solution.
Thanks for the thoughtful words. And don't worry about me... I'm just a guy venting at my desk.
I know that feeling of watching promising movements fall apart over personalities rather than principles. The Reform Party situation sounds like a classic case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Your Declaration project sounds intriguing - and hey, if we're all going to be trapped in a reality distortion field, we might as well try building a better one. Good luck.
Kennedy is playing the same game that many in power do.
When it comes to using their power to stop something bad, they're inept or have a hundred excuses.
Sometimes they ignore it. Kennedy could stop the con-vid emergency as his position determines whether there is one or not. He's not doing it. Why not?
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-the-hhs-secretary?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Excellent piece, Joshua. I so appreciate long-form essays which give nuance, context and expanded argument over the sound bite tweet or news item. It reminds me of Neil Postman's takedown of television, recently summarized by Unbekoming, where we will amuse ourselves to death.
The engineered tribalism is really something to watch when it happens in real time around you, as we clearly saw during 'Covid' and now with TDS calling for physical violence - and not being banned or arrested for it. The political bias is everywhere as it is obvious. But this is a necessity in tribal warfare.
Your point about collective unity regardless of tribe is the greatest fear of the ruling class. Divide and conquer has worked for centuries. Once we realize who our real enemy is, things can begin to change. But not when we depend on government, whichever flavor de jour.
"The Algorithmic Reinforcement Machine"
Yes, "Society is now far more machine and algorithm than the spirit of humanity. AI, social media and automation are transforming the human experience. All optimizing for what is now the most important attribute, attention, rather than genuine connection." - https://www.mindprison.cc/p/technology-is-progress
“The honeymoon is already ending.”
We go into so many things in Life with great hopes and expectations. And too often, these wants and dreams of ours are very quickly dashed. And that does not do much for one’s state and peace of mind and need for positivity.
As Sages have long counseled us... We humans cannot live without hope. At least, not live well, anyway. And that’s our dilemma. We must continue to live with hope in a World that so quickly takes that hope away from us.
We can dictate to the World what our own personal state of mind will be. Or we can let the World dictate to us and legislate that lack of fulfillment to leave us empty and despondent. We make our choice and live with it.
The trouble with Honeymoons is that they always end. They were not meant to last... but to lead and grow into something more stable and grounded and long-lasting. And if a Honeymoon doesn’t lead into that direction it becomes a blind alley and wrong turn in our lives that must be corrected for us to return to our right path.
We cannot put faith in any politician. We cannot put faith in any institution. These are human inventions that quickly become corrupted and dangerous to our minds and bodies. We must find places to put our faith and attention into something higher... something greater than failing human collectives. Because a single person might have some bad ideas. Add a second person and the bad ideas double. Add a third person and beyond... and bad ideas do not just double they multiply by powers and magnitudes beyond. That’s why with most any group of people you will never get anything done because too many people are bringing too many bad ideas into the mixture. And so, ou either get paralysis or you get some kind of ineffective, watered-down mess.
Want to get something done. Do it yourself. Don’t wait for others. Don’t look for help. If you should find assistance... welcome and cherish that and use it. But don’t expect it.
Dark Forces in our World are trying to turn us all into unthinking, unfeeling machines. That is the ageless Dark State Dream of having empty, compliant nothings that serve The State and do nothing else. But that is not who and what we are. We were not put on this Earth to be a Thing to be used and abused and not a free, precious human being. The abusers and the confused among us are those who do not recognize their Divinty within.
Never surrender your innate Divinity. Don’t put your faith in Institutions or in those trying to turn humans either into Things... or the opposite extreme of being false gods or replacements for True Divinity.
Don’t let others do your thinking. Don’t be so weak as to always seek safety in The Crowd. Remember what was said above... and how bad ideas become Squared To Infinity with the addition of each new person to the group.
Guard your life, your being, your thoughts as if your life depended on it.
Why? BECAUSE IT DOES...