Your writing is like a breath of fresh air. And I look forward to reading more. I hope you accumulated considerable wealth giving you time to research, think, and write about our current world. Good for you.
Still the term "convenience" sticks in my brain. You have written about convenience in several posts, as a reason we all get sucked in to devices which may, can, and do provide avenues of government control. I agree that the Internet and our ubiquitous cellphones aid others in creating conditions for control.
Some of your work started with Thomas Edison. On my desk is a cylindrical object, labeled Edison Amberol Record #285, "Stars and Stripes Forever March" by John Philip Sousa (four minutes). This came from my grandmother. She also had a one-cylinder Stickney engine and a washing machine. They bought a Ford Model A car, and she wanted to know "how fast will it go?" Yes, much of what we have and want today is for convenience (time saving?). Television where I can't respond to what I see. Internet emails over Letters to the Editor of our newspapers. Freezers over Ice Boxes. Computers with Microsoft Word over handwritten text, etc. These "conveniences" aren't going away. There will be more to come.
But you are right, they do set us up for control by people whose credentials deprive them of all humility, allowing them to baldly tell us the Border is closed. We need to encourage Federalism among sovereign States, do trial and error at State level, with emulation of successes. We need to discourage central planning at the Federal level (abortion is a good example). Dethrone the Executive and the unelected Federal Bureaucracy. Insist members of Congress agree on legislation benefitting Americans rather than have them determined to win at all costs.
Eliminate professional sports (OK that will be a long time coming). Pass a law to breakup any company or cartel which achieves more than 40% of a defined market. Big corporations and Big Governments have a natural affinity for each other. Witness all the bent knees around the world on the election of Donald Trump. Had he lost, the knees would just bend in the other direction.
Thank you, Bill. You raise an important point about the evolution of convenience technologies. While there's a continuum from early labor-saving devices to modern smart systems, there's also a crucial distinction: washing machines and Model As simply made work easier, while today's *conveniences* often replace fundamental skills and knowledge while collecting data about every interaction. In an ideal world, technology would automate mindless tasks to free us for more creative and meaningful pursuits. Instead, we're seeing it used to enable unprecedented surveillance and control.
Your suggestions about decentralization and breaking up concentrated power align well with resistance to technocratic control. I am convinced that the challenge we face isn't primarily left vs right - it's centralized control vs human agency, regardless of political flavor. Whether it comes through government bureaucracy or corporate power, centralization itself is the threat.
The more we understand these systems, the better equipped we are to maintain our autonomy within them.
Humanist EM Forster's 1909 'The Machine Stops' demonstrates the depth of thought and concerns people were putting into the far off but nascent machine/digital age during the 'New Thought' era.
I'd argue an antidote to digital dystopia is breaking free of dogmatic religions and digital reliance with the emergence of a modern equivalence to the 'New Thought' contemplations, despite some of the strange manifestations, such as Christian Science, that that era begat.
Maybe 'The Truman Show' will become a Christmas holiday staple in the way 'It's a wonderful life' did!
Thanks for this reference. I've heard of "The Machine Stops" but haven't read it - your comment might be the nudge I needed. The parallels you describe are fascinating. And I love the idea of "The Truman Show" becoming holiday viewing.
Josh, This is the best overarching summary of the history and the remarkable and very limited family associations that have driven most of what we see. Interestingly, as someone with more-than-passing relations with various old-line royalty (in the true sense) this is generally understood and many of these family actors are also tangentially wired in -- but not a one would ever mention it. But most "ordinary" people just refuse to believe how this is packaged and how it has progressed (because if anything sounds like a conspiracy theory, this would be it) so careful documentation with receipts is the only way to start to bring along the (right-place-to-start) skeptics.
The only weakness in the entire piece is the detail for the history is intricate and persuasive, but the instructions to "fix" things are high level, very generic, and essentially in the "sounds good -- can't see anything exactly to do here so I will keep on doing what I am doing" category. This issue is not specific to you -- it characterizes most people trying to imagine another path. But it needs more heavy duty actionable "do this now" steps to have the kind of impact it should have, I think. Wish I could tell you what they are -- that is why we read deep thinkers like you.
In any case, marvelous piece. Hope it gets picked up and republished -- it merits it.
I should mention that I was actually quite selective in what to include in this piece - as I've previously mentioned, I've been working closely with a team (including some of my closest friends) for the last few years, and it all runs much deeper than what I presented here. Candidly, it took me a while for my jaw to finally close but the connections are ubiquitous and obvious. Nonetheless, all I'm trying to is share a bit of my "map" for anyone else who may be interested in these topics but isn't sure where to start. Rather than ranting over a drink in a bar (as I tried for the last few years) I figured I'd start showing my/our work in writing.
As for your point about the action steps - you're absolutely right. The "what to do about it" piece is something I'm still working to crystallize. I try to be mindful about not being preachy with solutions (especially since I'm typing this on a computer, not exactly living like the Amish!), but I agree that more concrete next steps would strengthen the impact.
Thank you again for the kind words and encouragement.
Heh. The fancy-future folks with their fancy techy meds did not do so well in covid. And we haven't even seen the end of that death spiral. I can see all those wanting to up themselves into the hard drive one way or another end up the same way.
Latest Star Wars Disney series "Skeleton Crew" has a group of four kids as the main characters, with one of them a sort of cyborg with a visor. Their whole planet was run by artificial intelligence, under robotic mass surveillance, and all the adults were just following orders carrying out the program to create currency. They called it, "The Great Work." Curiously, the series ends with the central controlling robot called "the supervisor" having its eye, that resembles the HAL eye from 2001, poked out by a pirate antagonist called "Jod," The whole planet then shuts down at once.
One of the upcoming Star Wars films is set to be directed by a WEF contributor and co-chair of one of the annual conferences, the film that will continue the main movie saga.
The research is what takes the real time - years of digging and connecting dots with my inner circle. But once you start seeing the patterns, they stitch together naturally. It's like the pieces of the puzzle just want to come together.
Benz's work is absolutely extraordinary - he's been absolutely vital in helping people understand these mechanisms of control.
I'll definitely check out that Off-Guardian piece - thanks for sharing it. It's encouraging to see more people spotting these patterns and sharing their findings. That's the only way people will start paying attention to them.
Very well done. Good reference and solid points. Although your I disagree with your solutions at the end. In particular, “use technology without being used by it.” One defining characteristic of modernity is that technology now acts upon us, whereas previously it was the opposite.
Some good works I’d recommend are Simulacrum and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, and Ride the Tiger by Julius Evola.
Thanks - this was intended as a primer for anyone unfamiliar with the historical arc.
You make a totally reasonable point about technology acting on us rather than the other way around. I acknowledge that I may be being overly hopeful though that's how i'm wired - perhaps I'm being naive.
Anyway, thanks for the recommendations. I'm familiar with Baudrillard but will check out Ellul and Evola; sounds like they might offer some healthy challenges to my optimism. Heh.
A great piece but for several inclusions that reverse all of this nonsense. You are one of these as well as Robert Malone, MD, ALilyBit, Jenn McCarthy, Elizabeth Nickson and just go on down a long list of critical thinkers who hav found their voices amplified by the attempt to exert top-down control. There are thousands of us who have had our perceptions elevated to a high level that are now fully alert to the 'great plans' of world dominance they have been working many decades to effect. To know what is happening is to stop it.
Heh, I never thought I'd find myself mentioned in the same breath as Jenny McCarthy AND Dr. Malone - I suppose life can take some unexpected turns :-)
But thank you for these thoughtful words. And, you're right - the more people who understand these systems, the harder they become to implement. Thank you for caring about humanity's future.
Excellent piece. Thanks for bringing all the diverse threads together into this dystopian tapestry and its trajectory. Transgender is merely a step to Transhuman. Klaus even pontificates about a post-human world and a 'bio-digital convergence' as he and his elite friends 'steer humanity into the future.' As if we can't steer ourselves. My sense is the blind obedients in love with their servitude will be greater victims of the human cull. Those of us resisting this nightmare at least stand a better chance. It really is a battle of good against evil.
Thank you so much. You make an important connection - the normalization of technological body modification is indeed a bridge toward their stated transhuman goals. Schwab and others have been quite explicit about their vision of 'bio-digital convergence' and the post-human future they envision. This is a clear step in that progression. While I didn't get into the occult aspects in this piece, there's a direct throughline to Crowley's 'Do What Thou Wilt' - his influence on the Huxleys, Fabians and Tavistock circles adds another layer to this historical web of transcending human limitations.
Wow, this piece really hit home. I find the parallels you draw between Truman’s escape and the technocratic control systems we face today so thought-provoking. You’ve captured something vital: the quiet creeping of digital and biological constraints, and the courage it takes to push against them. I especially appreciate your focus on conscious resistance and local community-building—it’s an actionable way forward amidst these larger, invisible forces. This has definitely given me more to reflect on. Thank you for sharing these insights.
Megan, thank you for this thoughtful comment. You've captured exactly what I hoped to convey with the Truman analogy - both the subtle way these systems envelope us and the courage required to resist them.
I should note that while I outline paths of resistance like privacy practices and local community-building, I'm often quite hypocritical in my own implementation. I still use smartphones, social media, and various surveillance technologies even while recognizing their role in the technocratic grid. The convenience is seductive, which is precisely the point.
Like Truman, we can't escape what we don't recognize. Understanding these invisible constraints helps us make more conscious choices about our engagement with them, even if we can't (or won't) disconnect entirely. The more we collectively understand these systems, the better chance we have of preserving our humanity within them.
While there are the blind complaining that the above article is too long, I commend you for distilling such vast scope into a readable essay. In particular I appreciate your pointing out the Huxleys. However I wish that you had mentioned Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society, and Francis Galton.
How ironic that so many that are chafing from the New World Order are also confirmed Darwinists and haters of the biblical world view. They believe that Charles Darwin was a genius when he was just another stooge that wasn’t even capable of public speaking.
Thanks. And yes, there's a much deeper historical web to explore. As some have noted, it was already getting long so I made some choices about scope to keep it digestable. Perhaps those connections deserve their own deep dive at some point.
The Lunar Society connection is particularly interesting. I'm also intrigued by your note about Galton - those are both areas I need to research more.
I agree it needs more heavy duty actionable steps but I think those you list are good to begin with, along with spreading the gospel of an understanding of the monetary history, which is the story of power that reveals how our sovereignty was usurped by those who got control of the global monetary system (capitalisme) issuing money as credit/debt, a form of slavery. It is a centripetal force that with technologic control now becomes even more centralized. Reclaiming our sovereignty is reclaiming the power to issue the money, the most vital prerogative of democratic self-governance. As Frederick Soddy wrote in 1934, "To allow it (money) to become a source of revenue to private issuers is to create, first, a secret and illicit arm of the government and, last, a rival power strong enough ultimately to overthrow all other forms of government." This where we are, it seems and yet when their system crashes they come running to the sovereign to bail them out. I think your work as well as the work of others is helping to "lift the veil" on the crimes of the elite to bring about an apocalypse, and end to their world and the beginning of a new paradigm. monetaryalliance.org
Thank you - you're absolutely right about the crucial role of monetary control. While I actually favor moving money outside of centralized control entirely (whether governmental or private), we agree that the current system concentrates dangerous power in private hands. The push for CBDCs represents the perfect fusion of financial and technological control - exactly what we want to prevent.
Compliments. Very comprehensive, well put together overview.
Your writing is like a breath of fresh air. And I look forward to reading more. I hope you accumulated considerable wealth giving you time to research, think, and write about our current world. Good for you.
Still the term "convenience" sticks in my brain. You have written about convenience in several posts, as a reason we all get sucked in to devices which may, can, and do provide avenues of government control. I agree that the Internet and our ubiquitous cellphones aid others in creating conditions for control.
Some of your work started with Thomas Edison. On my desk is a cylindrical object, labeled Edison Amberol Record #285, "Stars and Stripes Forever March" by John Philip Sousa (four minutes). This came from my grandmother. She also had a one-cylinder Stickney engine and a washing machine. They bought a Ford Model A car, and she wanted to know "how fast will it go?" Yes, much of what we have and want today is for convenience (time saving?). Television where I can't respond to what I see. Internet emails over Letters to the Editor of our newspapers. Freezers over Ice Boxes. Computers with Microsoft Word over handwritten text, etc. These "conveniences" aren't going away. There will be more to come.
But you are right, they do set us up for control by people whose credentials deprive them of all humility, allowing them to baldly tell us the Border is closed. We need to encourage Federalism among sovereign States, do trial and error at State level, with emulation of successes. We need to discourage central planning at the Federal level (abortion is a good example). Dethrone the Executive and the unelected Federal Bureaucracy. Insist members of Congress agree on legislation benefitting Americans rather than have them determined to win at all costs.
Eliminate professional sports (OK that will be a long time coming). Pass a law to breakup any company or cartel which achieves more than 40% of a defined market. Big corporations and Big Governments have a natural affinity for each other. Witness all the bent knees around the world on the election of Donald Trump. Had he lost, the knees would just bend in the other direction.
Thank you, Bill. You raise an important point about the evolution of convenience technologies. While there's a continuum from early labor-saving devices to modern smart systems, there's also a crucial distinction: washing machines and Model As simply made work easier, while today's *conveniences* often replace fundamental skills and knowledge while collecting data about every interaction. In an ideal world, technology would automate mindless tasks to free us for more creative and meaningful pursuits. Instead, we're seeing it used to enable unprecedented surveillance and control.
Your suggestions about decentralization and breaking up concentrated power align well with resistance to technocratic control. I am convinced that the challenge we face isn't primarily left vs right - it's centralized control vs human agency, regardless of political flavor. Whether it comes through government bureaucracy or corporate power, centralization itself is the threat.
The more we understand these systems, the better equipped we are to maintain our autonomy within them.
Brilliant compendium. Kudos!
🙏
Humanist EM Forster's 1909 'The Machine Stops' demonstrates the depth of thought and concerns people were putting into the far off but nascent machine/digital age during the 'New Thought' era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
I'd argue an antidote to digital dystopia is breaking free of dogmatic religions and digital reliance with the emergence of a modern equivalence to the 'New Thought' contemplations, despite some of the strange manifestations, such as Christian Science, that that era begat.
Maybe 'The Truman Show' will become a Christmas holiday staple in the way 'It's a wonderful life' did!
Thanks for this reference. I've heard of "The Machine Stops" but haven't read it - your comment might be the nudge I needed. The parallels you describe are fascinating. And I love the idea of "The Truman Show" becoming holiday viewing.
Josh, This is the best overarching summary of the history and the remarkable and very limited family associations that have driven most of what we see. Interestingly, as someone with more-than-passing relations with various old-line royalty (in the true sense) this is generally understood and many of these family actors are also tangentially wired in -- but not a one would ever mention it. But most "ordinary" people just refuse to believe how this is packaged and how it has progressed (because if anything sounds like a conspiracy theory, this would be it) so careful documentation with receipts is the only way to start to bring along the (right-place-to-start) skeptics.
The only weakness in the entire piece is the detail for the history is intricate and persuasive, but the instructions to "fix" things are high level, very generic, and essentially in the "sounds good -- can't see anything exactly to do here so I will keep on doing what I am doing" category. This issue is not specific to you -- it characterizes most people trying to imagine another path. But it needs more heavy duty actionable "do this now" steps to have the kind of impact it should have, I think. Wish I could tell you what they are -- that is why we read deep thinkers like you.
In any case, marvelous piece. Hope it gets picked up and republished -- it merits it.
Thanks, Dr. K. Coming from you, this means a lot.
I should mention that I was actually quite selective in what to include in this piece - as I've previously mentioned, I've been working closely with a team (including some of my closest friends) for the last few years, and it all runs much deeper than what I presented here. Candidly, it took me a while for my jaw to finally close but the connections are ubiquitous and obvious. Nonetheless, all I'm trying to is share a bit of my "map" for anyone else who may be interested in these topics but isn't sure where to start. Rather than ranting over a drink in a bar (as I tried for the last few years) I figured I'd start showing my/our work in writing.
As for your point about the action steps - you're absolutely right. The "what to do about it" piece is something I'm still working to crystallize. I try to be mindful about not being preachy with solutions (especially since I'm typing this on a computer, not exactly living like the Amish!), but I agree that more concrete next steps would strengthen the impact.
Thank you again for the kind words and encouragement.
Unfortunately, most people love the golden cage of technology. Have no fear for the fate of their soul or spirit.
Good piece of work.
Heh. The fancy-future folks with their fancy techy meds did not do so well in covid. And we haven't even seen the end of that death spiral. I can see all those wanting to up themselves into the hard drive one way or another end up the same way.
Latest Star Wars Disney series "Skeleton Crew" has a group of four kids as the main characters, with one of them a sort of cyborg with a visor. Their whole planet was run by artificial intelligence, under robotic mass surveillance, and all the adults were just following orders carrying out the program to create currency. They called it, "The Great Work." Curiously, the series ends with the central controlling robot called "the supervisor" having its eye, that resembles the HAL eye from 2001, poked out by a pirate antagonist called "Jod," The whole planet then shuts down at once.
One of the upcoming Star Wars films is set to be directed by a WEF contributor and co-chair of one of the annual conferences, the film that will continue the main movie saga.
Brilliantly laid out and articulated, thank you!
OMG Josh where do you find the time & inspiration to produce such densely researched masterworks ⁉️
Had not yet finished marinating in your epic, multilayered #EngineeringReality 3-part series, and then U drop this on all of us…
Great minds think alike: You are helping *so many* travelling the same metapath (as with Benz, his rings, and the simultaneity of discovery?).
This OffGuardian piece popped up only this morning; thought immediately of sending it along. Serendipity!
Voila:
https://off-guardian.org/2024/12/05/technocracy-rising-part-1-why-its-crucial-to-understand-the-end-game/
Thank you, Jan.
The research is what takes the real time - years of digging and connecting dots with my inner circle. But once you start seeing the patterns, they stitch together naturally. It's like the pieces of the puzzle just want to come together.
Benz's work is absolutely extraordinary - he's been absolutely vital in helping people understand these mechanisms of control.
I'll definitely check out that Off-Guardian piece - thanks for sharing it. It's encouraging to see more people spotting these patterns and sharing their findings. That's the only way people will start paying attention to them.
Very well done. Good reference and solid points. Although your I disagree with your solutions at the end. In particular, “use technology without being used by it.” One defining characteristic of modernity is that technology now acts upon us, whereas previously it was the opposite.
Some good works I’d recommend are Simulacrum and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, and Ride the Tiger by Julius Evola.
Thanks - this was intended as a primer for anyone unfamiliar with the historical arc.
You make a totally reasonable point about technology acting on us rather than the other way around. I acknowledge that I may be being overly hopeful though that's how i'm wired - perhaps I'm being naive.
Anyway, thanks for the recommendations. I'm familiar with Baudrillard but will check out Ellul and Evola; sounds like they might offer some healthy challenges to my optimism. Heh.
A great piece but for several inclusions that reverse all of this nonsense. You are one of these as well as Robert Malone, MD, ALilyBit, Jenn McCarthy, Elizabeth Nickson and just go on down a long list of critical thinkers who hav found their voices amplified by the attempt to exert top-down control. There are thousands of us who have had our perceptions elevated to a high level that are now fully alert to the 'great plans' of world dominance they have been working many decades to effect. To know what is happening is to stop it.
Heh, I never thought I'd find myself mentioned in the same breath as Jenny McCarthy AND Dr. Malone - I suppose life can take some unexpected turns :-)
But thank you for these thoughtful words. And, you're right - the more people who understand these systems, the harder they become to implement. Thank you for caring about humanity's future.
Excellent piece. Thanks for bringing all the diverse threads together into this dystopian tapestry and its trajectory. Transgender is merely a step to Transhuman. Klaus even pontificates about a post-human world and a 'bio-digital convergence' as he and his elite friends 'steer humanity into the future.' As if we can't steer ourselves. My sense is the blind obedients in love with their servitude will be greater victims of the human cull. Those of us resisting this nightmare at least stand a better chance. It really is a battle of good against evil.
Thank you so much. You make an important connection - the normalization of technological body modification is indeed a bridge toward their stated transhuman goals. Schwab and others have been quite explicit about their vision of 'bio-digital convergence' and the post-human future they envision. This is a clear step in that progression. While I didn't get into the occult aspects in this piece, there's a direct throughline to Crowley's 'Do What Thou Wilt' - his influence on the Huxleys, Fabians and Tavistock circles adds another layer to this historical web of transcending human limitations.
Wow, this piece really hit home. I find the parallels you draw between Truman’s escape and the technocratic control systems we face today so thought-provoking. You’ve captured something vital: the quiet creeping of digital and biological constraints, and the courage it takes to push against them. I especially appreciate your focus on conscious resistance and local community-building—it’s an actionable way forward amidst these larger, invisible forces. This has definitely given me more to reflect on. Thank you for sharing these insights.
Megan, thank you for this thoughtful comment. You've captured exactly what I hoped to convey with the Truman analogy - both the subtle way these systems envelope us and the courage required to resist them.
I should note that while I outline paths of resistance like privacy practices and local community-building, I'm often quite hypocritical in my own implementation. I still use smartphones, social media, and various surveillance technologies even while recognizing their role in the technocratic grid. The convenience is seductive, which is precisely the point.
Like Truman, we can't escape what we don't recognize. Understanding these invisible constraints helps us make more conscious choices about our engagement with them, even if we can't (or won't) disconnect entirely. The more we collectively understand these systems, the better chance we have of preserving our humanity within them.
While there are the blind complaining that the above article is too long, I commend you for distilling such vast scope into a readable essay. In particular I appreciate your pointing out the Huxleys. However I wish that you had mentioned Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society, and Francis Galton.
How ironic that so many that are chafing from the New World Order are also confirmed Darwinists and haters of the biblical world view. They believe that Charles Darwin was a genius when he was just another stooge that wasn’t even capable of public speaking.
Thank you for your article.
Thanks. And yes, there's a much deeper historical web to explore. As some have noted, it was already getting long so I made some choices about scope to keep it digestable. Perhaps those connections deserve their own deep dive at some point.
The Lunar Society connection is particularly interesting. I'm also intrigued by your note about Galton - those are both areas I need to research more.
I agree it needs more heavy duty actionable steps but I think those you list are good to begin with, along with spreading the gospel of an understanding of the monetary history, which is the story of power that reveals how our sovereignty was usurped by those who got control of the global monetary system (capitalisme) issuing money as credit/debt, a form of slavery. It is a centripetal force that with technologic control now becomes even more centralized. Reclaiming our sovereignty is reclaiming the power to issue the money, the most vital prerogative of democratic self-governance. As Frederick Soddy wrote in 1934, "To allow it (money) to become a source of revenue to private issuers is to create, first, a secret and illicit arm of the government and, last, a rival power strong enough ultimately to overthrow all other forms of government." This where we are, it seems and yet when their system crashes they come running to the sovereign to bail them out. I think your work as well as the work of others is helping to "lift the veil" on the crimes of the elite to bring about an apocalypse, and end to their world and the beginning of a new paradigm. monetaryalliance.org
Thank you - you're absolutely right about the crucial role of monetary control. While I actually favor moving money outside of centralized control entirely (whether governmental or private), we agree that the current system concentrates dangerous power in private hands. The push for CBDCs represents the perfect fusion of financial and technological control - exactly what we want to prevent.