Look, it’s complicated, but not complex.
We accept that USAID was funding left-wing extremism, correct? We also accept that USAID is a front group for the CIA, correct? Yet then a disconnect happens.
Yet, for some reason I do not quite understand, people struggle to realize the two points above mean the CIA control domestic political outcomes.
The CIA is the entity, the IC silo, controlling politics in the USA, and the resistance to the politics -namely Trump- they do not agree with.
This is why I use the restaurant analogy. The CIA is the back of the house, the kitchen.
We hold elections, we change the name of the restaurant. We change the front of the house, the staff, the maître d, we even change the decor (DOGE) and the menu. But the kitchen is the same.
The judicial branch defers to the IC. The legislative branch is fearful of the IC. The executive branch is the front of the house, giving the illusion of change, but nothing really changes.
Until the system is changed, totally and radically reformed to remove the power of the IC, then nothing changes.
Repeal the Patriot Act. Repeal the 17th amendment. Start repealing the tools that created the problem, and only then do we start to free ourselves from this mess.
Eisenhower warned about it. JFK talked about it. Many more people have inferred it and have skirted on the issue, pretending there was some reform process that could be used. All of that well-intentioned inaction leads us to this place where we are now; standing jaw-agape wondering what can be done.
Take down the apparatus. Quit being fearful. Yes, leave us vulnerable to harm, but restore constitutional liberty. The people who weaponize govt use fear, real or imagined, for their purposes.
Take down the national security state. Disassemble the tools (FISA, NSA Surveillance, DHS, DOJ-NSD) and all the mechanisms in place to give the illusion of security.
Ultimately, live a life wrapped in constitutional liberty with the potential for harm always present… but live without the control mechanisms of the IC influencing every facet of life, under the ruse of security.
Find that and you will find the opportunity for freedom.
His reasoning is impeccable, but the highlighted conclusion, alas, is unlikely, probably impossible. Surveillance and control are consequences of technologies invented by humans and also the root technologies of the human brain. Game theory of power strongly indicates that power, once attained, concentrates and seeks control and growth. Hierarchies form naturally based on how our minds work, how social groups form, how languages work, how power inevitably forms hierarchies. Sundance can point to ‘the CIA’ but beyond that surface the deep power in control is not visible. Who in the CIA or who is controlling the CIA?
A relevant aside to this is even the people in control of the CIA, or whatever the deep power center is, can never be certain they are in full control. Some force, some group, some entity or enemy could always depose them at any moment. This is the deep reality that drives the need for ever more power among top people. This same reality is true in China, Russia, Europe, wherever. And this same reality is true between and among all nations and power centers on earth. It has ever been thus.
Another relevant aside concerns people who want to return to kingdoms and royalties because democracy is a failure. I agree democracy is a ridiculous way to run a nation, but also must say the deep state is today the modern version of kings and queens. We just don’t know who they are and they no longer parade in front of us in costumes. Other than that, under the sun it’s the exact same old nothing new as ever.
One last aside is it is possible that a vast surveillance state will work in favor of we the people. A super surveillance AI control state will be able to apportion goods and services more efficiently than capitalism and much less painfully. A robotic world will be so wealthy, greed will seem passe. Any elite that controls this state may reason that its control is no longer absolutely necessary because there is no longer any reason for anyone to overthrow them. ABN
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