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- 0:38David Hughes, thank you for joining me in the trenches.
- 0:41Well, thank you for having me back and congratulations on your
- 0:44new UK column slot. I participated in a 9/11
- 0:49symposium back in 2020 I think it was, which went out on UK
- 0:54columns, so not my first time. I'm glad to be back.
- 0:58Gee, there's a really good starting point 911.
- 1:04I mean, if we're talking about psyops and mind control, that is
- 1:08a gem, isn't it? It's, well, it's one of the very
- 1:12biggest, isn't it? I mean, I was struck when I
- 1:15first woke up and inverted commas and realized the extent
- 1:20of the lie. I was struck very much by the
- 1:24question, why is it that most people don't see it when
- 1:26actually it's blindingly obvious.
- 1:29And that has to do very much with the power of psychological
- 1:33operations, with propaganda, with the use of the term
- 1:36conspiracy theorist and so on. And it's absolutely vital that
- 1:40the public understands how these operations work.
- 1:43So much of my research since then has been devoted to
- 1:47exposing the various techniques that they use to get away with
- 1:51it. Essentially.
- 1:52Like what? Well, I mean, in my COVID book,
- 1:56I cover all kinds of different techniques of psychological
- 2:00warfare that were involved. But I mean, returning to 911,
- 2:06some of the techniques are very crude in terms of shock the
- 2:09population with a traumatic event and then just use
- 2:12propaganda to beat them around the head with every nightly news
- 2:18broadcast talking about terrorism and and and so on and
- 2:21Al Qaeda that that's really all there was for years after the
- 2:24event. But then of course, there are
- 2:27deeper levels. I think there's a a kind of
- 2:31something called it a mainstream alternative media position.
- 2:35I, I call it Camp 2 in my 3 camps framework, but the idea is
- 2:41that there's a, a group of people out there I'm sure
- 2:44probably has military intelligence connections whose
- 2:47role it is to deliberately mislead even the skeptics.
- 2:52And so in my view, that is very much the case with the Nano
- 2:56Thermite narrative which has been proposed down the years,
- 3:00which I and many others think is bogus.
- 3:04We find that the characters who promote that narrative to be
- 3:09untrustworthy and dishonest. And there's certainly a
- 3:14groundswell, a growing group of people out there now who think
- 3:19that the truth lies neither with the official explanation nor
- 3:23with the Nano thermite explanation, but broadly in the
- 3:27direction of the work of Judy Wood.
- 3:30I had the great privilege of interviewing her, I think back
- 3:33in 2021 and I found her work mind blowing, utterly mind
- 3:39blowing. Her book is something like I've
- 3:42never seen in terms of an investigation into into 911 yet
- 3:48David speak to the average person around you about what she
- 3:54concluded, which is effectively directed energy weapons and
- 3:58people will the eyes will glaze over and they'll call you a
- 4:01clown. Yeah, and this is precisely what
- 4:04I'm talking about in terms of the power of the psychological
- 4:07operations to cover up the truth.
- 4:12I mean, in the case of Doctor Wood, she's never been allowed
- 4:16to have a Wikipedia page. Now, this is quite interesting
- 4:19because it's often the case that Wikipedia will give people pages
- 4:23just in order to promote misinformation about them.
- 4:27But obviously Wood's ideas are so dangerous actually to the
- 4:31establishment that she's never been allowed even to have a page
- 4:34of that nature. And I've seen very few people
- 4:39smeared and attacked and ridiculed to the extent that she
- 4:45has been down the years. And again, I think that says
- 4:48something very significant. And obviously people then, you
- 4:54know, if they fall for that, they don't want to be associated
- 4:58with someone who's been painted in those terms.
- 5:02But all of this is about making sure that the very important
- 5:07evidence that is presented in Where Did the Towers Go doesn't
- 5:12come to light or isn't taken seriously.
- 5:15And one of the important points that Doctor Wood makes in that
- 5:19book is that she's not trying to present a, a hard theory per SE,
- 5:23but she is presenting the evidence.
- 5:25And there's 500 pages of evidence in that book.
- 5:28And it's a, a high quality production.
- 5:30It contains all kinds of photographs and, and, and
- 5:34diagrams and much else besides. There's, there's a whole
- 5:37treasure trove for readers to delve into there.
- 5:43And some of that evidence, I'm not sure would ever have come to
- 5:46light or ever have been taken seriously were it not for Doctor
- 5:50Wood. Some of it is quite
- 5:52extraordinary when you take, for example, what she calls the
- 5:55toasted cars. I mean, what on earth would
- 6:00cause this to happen? So for anyone who's not familiar
- 6:03with it, I'm sure virtually all of your audience is.
- 6:06But many cars in the in the vicinity of the Twin towers were
- 6:11found apparently burned out, certainly very peculiar kind of
- 6:16what, what appear to be burn patterns on them.
- 6:20And yet you have to ask, well, why would 2 collapsing
- 6:23buildings? Of course the buildings didn't
- 6:26collapse per SE, but you know, officially, why would 2
- 6:29collapsing buildings 'cause that kind of damage to cars.
- 6:32And in particular, there was a car park a few blocks away from
- 6:37the few blocks northwest of the of the towers.
- 6:41And you can find photographs before and after the event
- 6:45occurred. Whatever did this to the cars,
- 6:47and you can see there in pristine condition beforehand
- 6:49and then afterwards most but not all strangely, of the cars are
- 6:53badly damaged. So what caused that?
- 6:56And in a sense, these are still open questions, but the evidence
- 7:00itself is undeniable and we really must look at it.
- 7:07You talk about various camps and this doesn't only apply to 911
- 7:12and it applies to psychological, psychological warfare as a
- 7:16whole, doesn't it? Yes, it does, absolutely.
- 7:19And particularly during the COVID era.
- 7:23I mean, one of the unfortunate realizations that I personally
- 7:26have come to over the last 12 months or so is that those in
- 7:32what I call Camp 2, which is it's designed for skeptics of
- 7:40official narratives. They've, they, they learn to
- 7:42question the official version of events and then they enter Camp
- 7:452 and they are greeted there by a battalion of fake dissidents,
- 7:51essentially people whose role it is to mislead, distract pied
- 7:55pipers essentially that will provide them with plenty of
- 7:59truth, plenty of relevant facts, but will fundamentally mislead
- 8:04them about the most important truths.
- 8:07It takes an awful lot of work actually to get out of Camp 2,
- 8:11both in terms of research and also psychologically and, and
- 8:15emotionally and to find one's way into what I call Camp 3,
- 8:19which is essentially the truth. And it's a, it's an ugly and
- 8:23difficult place to be and it's a very small place to be.
- 8:27And the, the unfortunate realization I've come to is that
- 8:30Camp 2 relative to Camp 3 is enormous.
- 8:35So when fighting the, the, the battle for ideas, unless I join
- 8:41you in the trenches, it's for me, it's really all about trying
- 8:43to, to find your way into Camp 3 and it's, it's extremely,
- 8:47extremely difficult. So a more contemporary example
- 8:53of what you're speaking about, if I may, would be the COVID
- 8:56era. And Kid Knightley from Off
- 8:59Guardian refers to something similar as fake binaries or the
- 9:03sort of false dichotomy of, of A&B thinking.
- 9:06So let's look at the COVID era. So you've got the the Biden
- 9:12camp, so to speak, that will argue that there was a pandemic
- 9:15and it came from a wet market in in China.
- 9:19You'll get the Trump camp that will argue there was a pandemic,
- 9:23but it comes from a lab in China.
- 9:27Both are arguing that there was a pandemic and both are arguing
- 9:30that China was involved. So they're ultimately arguing
- 9:34the same thing, which means that there's still space for the
- 9:39third option, which is what you refer to as Camp C, which is
- 9:42that there wasn't a pandemic and the whole thing was a
- 9:44psychological operation. Yes, and I get into that in
- 9:48chapter 6 of my book COVID-19, Psychological Operations and the
- 9:53War for Technocracy. And Mike Eden also proposed this
- 9:59argument, which I agree with, which is very much as you've
- 10:04you've outlined, did the virus escape from a lab?
- 10:08Was it natural? It doesn't matter which side you
- 10:12take. Ultimately, you are subscribing
- 10:14to the idea that there was, in fact, a novel virus.
- 10:19Yeah. When really, I mean, the kinds
- 10:23of questions you should be asking is, is that, is that
- 10:26true? And I argue in the book that the
- 10:29onus was on the authorities to provide irrefusable evidence
- 10:32that it was true. And to my mind, they didn't do
- 10:35so. But even separate from that
- 10:39question, even if there had of been such a virus, could the
- 10:44measures that were taken ever have been justified?
- 10:50You know, shutting down the most of the economy, locking people
- 10:55in their houses, creating incredible levels of
- 10:59psychological stress, which of course then led to physical
- 11:02debility in many cases. I mean, the effects on so many
- 11:05people's lives were so bad, depriving children of their
- 11:12education, putting people in masks, etcetera.
- 11:15I mean, it was an awful time by design.
- 11:18Now, could any of that really have been justified even if
- 11:22there were a virus? No, because the whole point here
- 11:26is that it wasn't about a public health crisis.
- 11:30That's the camouflage, that's the facade, that's the decoy.
- 11:34And I'm using military language on purpose here because this, as
- 11:37I argue in the book, the whole thing was a psychological
- 11:40operation. And the purpose of that
- 11:43operation as we move towards the truth, in my view, was to
- 11:51initiate what I have called the war for technocracy.
- 11:55And so there is a much broader project going on here which
- 11:59involves the gradual dismantlement of liberal
- 12:02democracy and its replacement with a novel form of
- 12:05totalitarianism, which, as Patrick Wood has amply
- 12:10demonstrated over the years, goes by the name of technocracy.
- 12:16And so all of this business about virus, no virus, public
- 12:20health, science, the science trademark, etcetera, the whole
- 12:24thing is 1 massive distraction. And I was very pleased recently
- 12:28to, to watch Sasha Latapova's latest presentation.
- 12:33And she's pulled no punches over the years about this being a
- 12:36military operation. And it's a military operation,
- 12:39which is essentially ongoing because we still have the same
- 12:43transnational deep state that was behind this, that was behind
- 12:489/11 and behind so much else is still active and is still
- 12:54pushing towards technocracy regardless.
- 12:57And this is what the public really has to get wise to now,
- 13:02because if this technocratic system is brought in, well, I
- 13:08mean, it's not just the end of democracy, as far as I can tell,
- 13:11it would be the end of, of human freedom.
- 13:14I think it was around 2016 when I effectively swallowed my first
- 13:20red pull, and then around 2020 I think I swallowed a whole bottle
- 13:26of red pulls. Yeah.
- 13:29When did you start opening your eyes and why?
- 13:34Strangely enough, exactly the same time frame, really in
- 13:39exactly the same ways. So that's a strange coincidence.
- 13:42Yeah. I mean, for me it was December
- 13:442016 and and and my wake up in inverted commas was 911 and it
- 13:49was the destruction of the Twin towers.
- 13:51It came in the context of of teaching US foreign policy.
- 13:54Wait, wait, wait, wait. On the day 2001, you, you, you,
- 13:58you woke up. No 2016.
- 14:01Oh, I beg your point. OK, so so so but but but the
- 14:059/11 was. The trick was the yes was the
- 14:08trick, exactly. So I gotcha.
- 14:10Yeah. So I'd been teaching US foreign
- 14:12policy to my students, and we've been dealing with the war in
- 14:17Vietnam and the war in Afghanistan.
- 14:20And I've been reflecting on some of the parallels and
- 14:22continuities between those two wars, very long wars, very
- 14:25costly wars, PTSD for the soldiers, and so on.
- 14:30And I thought, well, we know that the major escalation in the
- 14:34the Vietnam War came about as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin
- 14:37incident, which we now know to have been a lie and to have been
- 14:40a false flag. And then, you know, you think to
- 14:43the war in Afghanistan and the War on Terror.
- 14:45How did that all kick off 911? Well, surely, surely that was
- 14:49everybody knows that, you know, conspiracy theory rights.
- 14:52I think that 911 was a a false flag.
- 14:54But I thought, well, I better just check.
- 14:57And of course, it doesn't take very long, does it, for anyone
- 15:00who's honest about this to actually look at that evidence
- 15:04and to very quickly realize that that the manner in which the
- 15:07buildings were destroyed could not possibly have had to do with
- 15:11jet fuel. 911 was a big moment. I mean, it was pivotal, but it
- 15:19wasn't really global in the sense that COVID was.
- 15:25Yeah, I, I think it shows that over the intervening years, what
- 15:32I have called the transnational deep state has become
- 15:36increasingly global. And I mean, maybe it was already
- 15:41before this, but what COVID showed with the extremely high
- 15:45degree of transnational cooperation all over the world
- 15:52and the apparent assassination of the, the few African leaders
- 15:55who dissented, is that really the, the power structure that
- 15:59we're looking at now is a global power structure which has
- 16:04managed to capture seemingly all states, all governments, all
- 16:09major institutions, all of the major media outlets, the banks,
- 16:14and you name it. All of the major institutions in
- 16:17society now seem to be captured by and aligned with a
- 16:23transnational deep state, which is working on behalf of a
- 16:28transnational ruling class to replace liberal democracy with
- 16:34global technocracy and thereby to subjugate the entire global
- 16:39population. So when I refer to a war for
- 16:43technocracy in the title of my book, I mean that in a very
- 16:47literal sense, because you cannot achieve social
- 16:50engineering on that scale historically without World War.
- 16:57And So what we're looking at now is a third World War, in my
- 17:01opinion, which was initiated, though undeclared, in 2020.
- 17:06It's a war being waged by the few against the many.
- 17:11It's a war being waged by a numerically miniscule proportion
- 17:17of the world's population, essentially the ruling class
- 17:21that owns the means of production.
- 17:23It can manipulate the financial system.
- 17:26It can manipulate the the propaganda.
- 17:28It can manipulate what happens in the skies.
- 17:30It's a war that is being waged from the cell to the
- 17:33stratosphere by this tiny but very powerful group against the
- 17:38rest of humanity. And I've referred to this as an
- 17:42Omni war because it the very logic of that war means that it
- 17:45has to take on its own peculiar characteristics.
- 17:50And so it has to be waged by stealth, because if the public
- 17:54gets wise to what's going on, there could be revolution
- 17:58overnight. And it's a war which is waged
- 18:00across every conceivable domain of human life.
- 18:05And as indeed it it has to be if you are trying to subjugate the
- 18:10entire of humanity. So these are really
- 18:15extraordinary times that we are living through.
- 18:18I mean, this is a, a, a moment of world historical
- 18:21transformation. And we don't know at this stage
- 18:25what direction it's going to go in.
- 18:27But what's interesting about this is that for decades this
- 18:32very powerful group of people has tried to do things
- 18:35incrementally. It's tried to remain hidden in
- 18:37the shadows so that it can effect change slowly, gradually,
- 18:42in a way which isn't noticed. But with 2020, it really to some
- 18:47extent came out of the shadows. And it was so major and so
- 18:50massive what happened that for anyone paying attention, it's,
- 18:53it's impossible to ignore. So they're pushing hard now for
- 18:59Technocracy. And we see it in all kinds of
- 19:02different respects from the, you know, the digital currency drive
- 19:07to facial recognition software to AI technologies being tested
- 19:13in war in places like Ukraine and and Gaza.
- 19:17All of this is, is, is going on. And unfortunately it's coming
- 19:23for us if we don't resist and if we don't if if if what?
- 19:28What's required is mass non compliance essentially with with
- 19:31all aspects of this technocracy. The whole thing relies on
- 19:35technologies for subjugation purposes.
- 19:39And what the public has to do is to learn to recognize those
- 19:42technologies and to reject. Them Mathias Desmet has written
- 19:47a lot about totalitarianism and and I I tend to agree with with
- 19:52some of what he says, particularly around the idea
- 19:55that approximately 30% of people at any given time will will
- 20:00reject or push back. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that
- 20:04it was Desmond's idea per SE. It is in his book.
- 20:07But I mean, for example, you can go back to Aldous Huxley's
- 20:10writings in the in the 1950s and and find similar claims.
- 20:14So I don't think there's anything terribly original in
- 20:16that claim, but nevertheless it seems to be true.
- 20:19And you can see it also in, for example, the the vaccination in
- 20:24inverted commas data from the UK Health Security Agency from July
- 20:292022 after the rollout of the injections was mostly complete.
- 20:33And when you analyze that data, you find that in terms of the
- 20:36adult population in the UK, 23% of the UK adult population
- 20:41refused to take a single shot. So again, that's kind of in line
- 20:45with what we're talking about, you know, roughly 1/5 or 1/4 or
- 20:49so of the population for whatever reason, and we don't
- 20:53know necessarily does seem to be immune to the hypnosis, the
- 20:58programming, the, the, the propaganda.
- 21:01I mean, the good news is I, I think that that percentage is
- 21:05slowly growing over time. I think more and more people are
- 21:09in inverse of Commons waking up. And once you see these things,
- 21:13there is no going back. You seem skeptical.
- 21:15Are you sure? Are you sure?
- 21:17I don't know. I'm I'm noticing people going
- 21:19backwards. Well, the as I, as I argue in
- 21:24the book, the that the COVID operation, as I call it,
- 21:27military operation, one key element of it did involve trauma
- 21:32based mind control. And as Mary Holland has stated,
- 21:40populations at one level could be forgiven for feeling as
- 21:45though they experienced or they're living through a kind of
- 21:48PTSD en masse because of what happened and because of what was
- 21:52done to them. And, and therefore the traumatic
- 21:55aspect of it means that people are psychologically disinclined
- 22:00to revisit what happened. And one of the reasons that I
- 22:04wrote my book, as I put in chapter 1, is precisely to
- 22:09revisit it. And it's a form of anamnesis.
- 22:12It's all about remembering in granular detail exactly what
- 22:15happened and exactly what was done because there are
- 22:19perpetrators here. This was done by design for very
- 22:23nefarious purposes. So it's important that we don't
- 22:26forget that now. Yes, I am confident actually
- 22:30that more and more people are seeing through this.
- 22:34I mean, it's very interesting that it will probably be in the
- 22:37next few days that my book will will pass a quarter of a million
- 22:40accesses and downloads on the publishers official website
- 22:44alone, which for an academic book is, is almost unheard of.
- 22:48So what that shows is that there is a public interest and
- 22:52appetite for this information. People do want to know.
- 22:56I've had plenty of people now telling me that I, for whatever
- 23:00reason, you know, I don't know manner of delivery, the nature
- 23:03of the information I'm presenting or whatever, but that
- 23:06I've been able to reach some of their friends and family that
- 23:08they've not been able to reach and to help them to, to see
- 23:11things. I think that the, I mean, it
- 23:15might be a painstakingly slow process from our perspective,
- 23:19but I think more and more people are very gradually starting to
- 23:24come round. And I've seen this even in my
- 23:27own family. You know, even certain people
- 23:30who I thought would never in a million years be able to
- 23:35psychologically process this information are now starting to.
- 23:39So I'm still hopeful in that regard.
- 23:42And I mean, ultimately the truth is the truth.
- 23:44I mean, it always comes out in the end.
- 23:47And just coming back to those percentages that you mentioned a
- 23:50few minutes ago, I mean, if we're looking at 1/4 of the
- 23:54population being immune to this stuff anyway, you've only really
- 23:58got to get to 51% for things to start to swing.
- 24:02You know, we don't need to be able to convince everybody or
- 24:05even a large majority if we could just get another, you
- 24:10know, 30% or so, maybe not even that, then things could start
- 24:16changing very, very quickly. You know, there could, there
- 24:18could be a tipping point. So I remain optimistic.
- 24:23I think you actually make some good points there and maybe I
- 24:27should rephrase what I was asking a little bit, because
- 24:32it's not A or B in the sense, you know, when I say waking up,
- 24:36I'm not talking about every aspect of every conceivable
- 24:41talking point. You know, some people, for
- 24:43example, will, will agree that there was no pandemic, but they
- 24:49won't agree that Direct Energy weapons were used on 9/11, for
- 24:52example. And I think this is the nature
- 24:55of the human condition that we can compartmentalize various
- 25:00vectors. So, So when we say waking up or
- 25:06opening our eyes, I guess it depends on what we're talking
- 25:09about. Yeah, I mean, in a sense, it's a
- 25:12process, isn't it? And it's about learning to
- 25:14identify the mechanisms that are involved.
- 25:17And I mean, I don't expect everyone to agree on everything,
- 25:22and I don't expect everyone to agree with everything that I or
- 25:24anyone else has to say. That's not what it's about.
- 25:27You know, you're right, it's not an A or B thing.
- 25:30But it is about people learning to distrust the information
- 25:36that's provided by mainstream sources and to develop a sense
- 25:41that the authorities which are ostensibly there to serve and
- 25:47protect them are doing nothing of the kind and, as COVID amply
- 25:54demonstrated, are in fact now attacking them and are, in my
- 26:00view, at war with them. It's about understanding that
- 26:05even once you've developed that consciousness, there are levels
- 26:09of perception and levels of awareness and that once you
- 26:13start to ask the questions, there will be even more
- 26:17challenges put in your way in terms of the fake dissident
- 26:21camp, two kind of characters that I have mentioned.
- 26:26And it's about learning that, you know, this is a, a difficult
- 26:29and painstaking process. It involves, I mean,
- 26:34psychologically you have to abandon some fundamental ideas
- 26:39that you've been propagandized with really ever since birth
- 26:43that the inherent virtue of Western liberal democracies, you
- 26:48know, the idea that vaccines are safe and effective and so on.
- 26:53The idea that we're fighting a virtuous War on Terror against,
- 26:57you know, foreign non state actors that are that are out to
- 26:59get us all of these things, which we've really been
- 27:04conditioned just to accept go out the window.
- 27:08And that that's quite difficult because it's a very
- 27:11disorientating process And it's it's a scary process.
- 27:17It's a frightening process. It removes the kind of
- 27:20psychological security that you you may may have had.
- 27:24So it's not about getting people to believe XY or Z, but it's
- 27:29about getting them to engage in that process, to understand that
- 27:34process and to actually have the the courage and the integrity to
- 27:39to start treading that path. The problem, David, though, is
- 27:44the pendulum always seems to swing in a really wonky fashion
- 27:50because we'll talk about Camp A and Cam B, right?
- 27:55And Cam B would be opposition to the official narrative in many
- 28:01respects. So let's say 911.
- 28:02OK, so Cam B would be argue that, I don't know, there was
- 28:06demolition and all sorts of other things going on, right?
- 28:09And on the face of it, it's great to see the rejection of
- 28:13the mainstream narrative. But now what happens is you have
- 28:21you have arguments within Camp B and Camp C about what the actual
- 28:28truth is, and it weakens the overall opposition, which would
- 28:33be B + C And so now you have Camp A looking at B&C and
- 28:38laughing going, well, they're just a bunch of clowns because
- 28:42they don't even know what's going on.
- 28:43And yeah, we are maintaining the official narrative.
- 28:47Everything that you've just described is by design.
- 28:51If you go back to a 2009 paper by Cass Sunstein and Adrian
- 28:56Vermeul, they, this is an academic journal paper and they
- 29:00call in that and, and you know, these are Harvard professors, by
- 29:03the way, and they call in that paper for government agents to
- 29:09infiltrate chat rooms, particularly in the context of
- 29:13those asking critical questions about the events of 9/11 and
- 29:18essentially to sow disruption. So we know that this is by
- 29:23design. We know that these bad actors
- 29:25are out there. We know that their task is to
- 29:28create confusion, to turn people against one another, to promote
- 29:34silly or ludicrous narratives, to promote more credible sounded
- 29:39but false narratives. We know that this has been going
- 29:44on and it was incredibly effective in the so-called 911
- 29:51truth community. I mean, as you say, there is no
- 29:53community. It's, it's been completely
- 29:55shattered and disparate. And in that sense, the the the
- 29:59perception management operations were successful.
- 30:03However, again, I think more and more people are starting to
- 30:07understand how the game works now.
- 30:09And in the case of COVID, for example, or in the case of the
- 30:14kind of the bots on X or Twitter as it used to be, more and more
- 30:19people are realizing that, for example, in the UK, there are
- 30:24things like the 77th Brigade whose role is precisely to do
- 30:32with perception management through online means that was
- 30:37specifically deployed to enforce the COVID narrative in various
- 30:42ways. And I forget what was his name,
- 30:46was it Mike Williams? I may have got that wrong.
- 30:49But anyway, as one of the senior generals in relation to the 77th
- 30:54Brigade came out back in March, April 2020 and said, yeah, we've
- 30:57got, you know, 3000 of our members working on this and we,
- 31:02you know, we could call up 20,000 if we want.
- 31:04So when I'm talking about battalions of kind of
- 31:08misinformers, I, I mean that in a quite literal military sense,
- 31:12because we know that this is what's going on.
- 31:13And of course, a lot of people now do refer to the 77th Brigade
- 31:20online, you know, or, or when they're being trolled by bots
- 31:27and, and, and so on, which apparently now is most Internet
- 31:31traffic. People are starting to
- 31:33understand the scale of the misinformation and the
- 31:37deception. And I think people are becoming
- 31:39more critical and more discerning in terms of the kind
- 31:42of information that they're looking for.
- 31:44But I don't underestimate the scale of the challenge.
- 31:46And of course, it's getting even worse now with AI and deep fakes
- 31:51and so on, where soon it may become virtually impossible to
- 31:56distinguish what's what's real and what's not real online.
- 31:59And that is a particular concern.
- 32:02I mean, you could imagine a podcast of this nature going out
- 32:07with you and I looking and sounding exactly as we do, but
- 32:11saying all kinds of different things.
- 32:12Now that's a that's a huge concern.
- 32:16And it, you know, could lead to a kind of mass psychosis where
- 32:18no one really knows what's real or not.
- 32:21But nevertheless, I do think that more and more people are
- 32:24starting to to understand how the game works and to become a
- 32:28bit more discerning about the way in which they take in their
- 32:30information. I think it was Noam Chomsky who
- 32:34said that one of the most. Effective ways to control people
- 32:40is to create the parameters of discourse and then encourage
- 32:45very vigilant and even aggressive heated debate within
- 32:50those parameters so that there would be the, excuse me, there
- 32:54would be the appearance of opposing views, but they're
- 32:57still within the parameters and those parameters are are.
- 33:01Given yeah, you're right, that's that was Chomsky that said that.
- 33:06And in a sense that's a an apartment description of
- 33:09mainstream politics, isn't it? You can have as much fierce
- 33:13debate as you like between red and blue, Labour and
- 33:15Conservative, etcetera, but provided you don't talk about
- 33:20the incoming technocracy, that's fine.
- 33:23Keep all of the attention, all of the perception, etcetera
- 33:27focused over there and don't mention what's really going on.
- 33:30That's exactly how it works. OK.
- 33:33So let me push back a little bit for the sake of this
- 33:35conversation, David. There is this, we're talking
- 33:41about perception management, but there is this perception that
- 33:44the perception managers are very advanced and very smart people.
- 33:49Could it also be argued with the sense of nuance that there is a
- 33:53lot of stupidity going on above? Yes, I mean, a couple of things
- 33:59to say on that. Firstly, I think that the people
- 34:01running these operations are extremely intelligent.
- 34:04A lot of it of course centres around intelligence in the sense
- 34:10of British intelligence or or CIA and it's called that for a
- 34:13reason. And they do recruit some of the
- 34:16most intelligent people, typically people who have a,
- 34:22shall we say, a criminal bent. You know, they, they're
- 34:25intelligent, but they get a kick out of being able to get away
- 34:28with things that they shouldn't be able to, to get away with
- 34:31breaking the law and, and so on. Now, that said, in Chapter 8 of
- 34:38my COVID book, I've got a section called Urgency and
- 34:42Desperation in which I argue that in many ways, the rollout
- 34:48of the COVID operation was rushed and botched.
- 34:53I think that although those behind it had been planning it
- 34:58for many, many years, they, they must have been given the
- 35:01granular level of detail that was involved in the rollout.
- 35:06But the rollout of the psychological operation, I don't
- 35:08mean the injections it. Yeah, I'm convinced it was well
- 35:13planned long in advance, but the actual way in which it was done
- 35:18in many ways blew their cover in many ways, made people wake up
- 35:23at a faster rate than ever before.
- 35:26They didn't succeed in getting the injections into everyone.
- 35:32Technocracy is being talked about now in a way which it
- 35:36never used to be before. And I think that it was very
- 35:41interesting in January 2022 when to my mind, the, the operation
- 35:49was seemingly pushing ahead at full force.
- 35:53In December 2021 in the UK, there was talk about NHS
- 35:59workers, the, the, the shop being being mandated for NHS
- 36:03workers. I mean, that's, I think it's the
- 36:055th largest employer in the world.
- 36:06If that had gone ahead, that would have set such a strong
- 36:09precedent for other employers to follow.
- 36:11And I was so worried in December 2021 and then all of a sudden in
- 36:17January 2022, the whole thing as it had been taking place since
- 36:22the spring of 2020 was suddenly wound down and, and put to bed.
- 36:27And, and then in February, it all became about Ukraine.
- 36:30And that was an extraordinary moment because it was an
- 36:33obvious. It was a.
- 36:34Coincidence, David. It moved swiftly from one to the
- 36:37other. And again, I'm sure that that
- 36:39was non accidental. But the, the, the key point here
- 36:44is that as successful as the drive was seeming at the time to
- 36:50just keep this injection campaign rolling on and on and
- 36:53on, they must have known that they'd reached their limit
- 36:57because they then stopped it and moved on to different forms of,
- 37:01of operation. So we must never overestimate
- 37:06their power. And I think the, the fact that
- 37:08they stopped and again, this was around the time of the Canadian
- 37:11truckers convoy, right, you know, signs of mass resistance
- 37:15on the ground. So I think it's important to, to
- 37:17keep an eye on that and to, to remember our strength and the,
- 37:21the, the level of resistance that there is, because it was
- 37:23sufficient to stop the COVID operation and it can be
- 37:27sufficient again in future to stop whatever they have planned
- 37:30for us. You talk about our strength, OK,
- 37:32So do we not run the risk by constantly pointing the finger
- 37:40at them, taking away our own responsibility and basically
- 37:47feeding into perpetual victimhood?
- 37:51Well, I do the opposite in my work.
- 37:54I mean, I'm essentially trying to spread awareness and
- 37:58enlightenment of of what's happening.
- 38:00And I've said repeatedly that once you see this, there is a
- 38:05moral responsibility and indeed a strategic responsibility to
- 38:10take action. And one of the lessons of
- 38:12totalitarianism from the past, if you read the works of
- 38:16Solzhenitsyn for example, is that staying silent is not an
- 38:21option. Doing nothing is not an option.
- 38:23Burying your head in the sand is not an option.
- 38:27And actually the very nature of the Omni war, as I've called it,
- 38:31means that this is being directed specifically against
- 38:34you personally and your family. So you have to fight, you have
- 38:41to get up and find ways of adding to the resistance.
- 38:44And of course what we do have on our side is numbers, 8 billion
- 38:50people approximately stand to assuming the estimates are
- 38:54correct, but stand to stand to lose from what is taking place.
- 39:01And so actually, if enough people would get up and active,
- 39:06I think this could be rolled back very, very quickly.
- 39:09But it is about taking that personal responsibility.
- 39:12So, yeah, I mean, I'm anything but defeatist in this.
- 39:16You know, I can, I can see a way out.
- 39:18And that's why I'm encouraging people to take action, do what
- 39:22they can. I mean, the fact that this Omni
- 39:24war is being fought in so many different domains means that
- 39:28there must be something that you can do what?
- 39:30Whatever your gift is, there must be something that you can
- 39:32do. Find that thing and do it.
- 39:35Isn't that also a danger of the whole Q thing?
- 39:38You know it's the white hats are coming to save us, so don't do
- 39:41anything. It's all 55D chess.
- 39:44Well, that certainly is what the purpose was, right?
- 39:48And the whole kind of fall of the cabal idea that, yes, you
- 39:53know, you can abdicate personal responsibility because the white
- 39:58hats are out there and they're already saving you.
- 40:02They're already doing it for you.
- 40:04I mean, it's an extremely successful song opera.
- 40:06I mean, I don't know how many millions of people in the US
- 40:09alone bought into that. Thankfully, I think the wheels
- 40:13have have come off that one now and more and more people are are
- 40:17seeing through that. But again, This is why it's
- 40:20important to just understand the fundamentals of what's taking
- 40:23place. This is a war.
- 40:25It's a war that's being waged against you and its ultimate
- 40:28purpose is to subjugate and enslave you through technocratic
- 40:31means. It's happening now.
- 40:33It's happening fast. The technocrats have already
- 40:35moved into the White House with Doge and Teal and Musk, etcetera
- 40:39and Palantir. The technologies are already
- 40:43being experimented in a military within the military capacity in
- 40:46in Ukraine and Gaza and elsewhere.
- 40:48This is all happening now. Are you going to allow it?
- 40:53You know, with you? Do you consent?
- 40:56Do you acquiesce to this path continuing?
- 41:01Because if you don't, then you must resist.
- 41:03You must do something. But what is that something?
- 41:09Well, I offer a whole range of solutions at the end of my
- 41:12Solari report titled Omni War, Exposing and Ending the
- 41:17Invisible War Against Humanity. I mean, I'm not going to
- 41:23prescribe a, you know, kind of a set thing, set series of things
- 41:26that everybody must do. But the key point that I always
- 41:29emphasize is that you need to look inside yourself.
- 41:32You need to look inside your conscience and you need to look
- 41:35inside your heart. And you need to ask yourself
- 41:36honestly, what is it that you can do?
- 41:39You know, what is it that you see?
- 41:40What difference can you make? And that's going to be different
- 41:42for everybody. Some people might be good at
- 41:44monkey wrenching technologies. Some people might be good at
- 41:47going down to the local councils and trying to effect put
- 41:51pressure on locally because a lot of these global agendas are
- 41:54actually enacted at a local level.
- 41:57Some people might be good at doing the kind of thing that you
- 42:00and I do, podcasting and so on, spreading messages.
- 42:03Some people might be able to write books, some people hold
- 42:06yellow boards. Whatever it may be, there is an
- 42:09absolute raft of things that you can do.
- 42:13Ditching your smartphone would probably be one of the most
- 42:15important things that you can do.
- 42:17Withdrawing from all forms of smart technologies is certainly
- 42:21highly recommended in the context of this war.
- 42:25Not putting up with ideas that you know to be wrong, having the
- 42:29courage to speak out about things.
- 42:32I mean, there's so much actually that can be done.
- 42:35But you know, it's, it's you have to have a mindset of
- 42:39wanting to adopt those ideas, to take them forward and to find
- 42:44ways of making that difference in your own life.
- 42:47Again, I can't prescribe what that's going to be for each
- 42:49individual person, but each one of us has to take that
- 42:52responsibility now. But David, we all know Donald
- 42:56Trump is going to save us. Well, Donald Trump promised to
- 43:00drain the swamp in his first administration and then
- 43:03proceeded to do the opposite. He said that he was going to
- 43:08arrest Hillary Clinton and then he had his assembled dinner
- 43:13audience applaud her. We know that the guy is a
- 43:16charlatan and a misleader, and it's incredible how many people
- 43:21don't see this and have fallen for it a second time.
- 43:25So he's back now and you know, day one.
- 43:30Well, that looks OK. You know, we're going to the US
- 43:33is going to withdraw from the The Who tick war against woke
- 43:37tick. All right, good day 2 mRNA AI
- 43:42powered mRNA cancer vaccines. So, you know, you can see these
- 43:47kind of agendas just roll on regardless.
- 43:49You know, the 1st 90 days, you know all about doge.
- 43:54The you know, I dread to think how much data about the US
- 43:58population has now been hoovered up by Palantir.
- 44:02I mean, it must have had so much data before then.
- 44:05But you know, the integration now of this technocracy with
- 44:08government, I mean, that's incredible power that that
- 44:12company and someone like Peter Thiel now now has.
- 44:16It's very, very frightening. And as I say, those kinds of
- 44:19companies and they're plenty kind of AI, venture capital
- 44:22start-ups, all linked to what's called accelerationism.
- 44:27The frightening thing about all of that is the military
- 44:30connections and the fact that they are involved essentially in
- 44:34creating this control grid where they can know where everybody
- 44:42is, what they're doing, who they're friends and family are,
- 44:47all of the psychographic profiling, you know, where they
- 44:50like to shop, sexual preferences, you name it, a
- 44:53granular level of detail about everyone.
- 44:56And these same companies are also developing military
- 44:59technologies like the facial recognition software like AI
- 45:02powered drones, which can be used to hunt down and kill
- 45:06people. It doesn't take a genius, does
- 45:08it, to work out where this is going, which is a long standing
- 45:12project. You can, you could even trace it
- 45:14back to IBM and the Holocaust. You can trace it back to
- 45:16Operation Phoenix using information and computing power
- 45:22to be able to identify, locate and ultimately eliminate
- 45:28dissidence. So again, this is taking place
- 45:32now on a transnational, if not global level.
- 45:35It's so dystopian, it's so dark, it has to be stopped.
- 45:40It's weird, though, because people get so caught up in the
- 45:44binary of the electoral process, For example, I mean, I think
- 45:49any, any sane person will agree that that Biden was not pulling
- 45:54the strings, yet somehow they think that now Trump is pulling
- 45:57the string strings. And the funniest part is that
- 45:59Trump is against the deep state. He's going to pull it apart.
- 46:03I mean, how do you how do you get to the point where you think
- 46:07that you become president of the country and somehow you are not
- 46:11part of the system? Well, again, none of it makes
- 46:16sense when you really think about it.
- 46:19But the whole thing is about misleading the masses.
- 46:23So Trump has made himself the figurehead of this so-called
- 46:28techno populism movement. And when, you know, hundreds of
- 46:34millions of people are buying into him as this kind of savior
- 46:37type figure, and he is marching them straight into technocracy,
- 46:44and they don't see it and they don't understand what's going
- 46:47on. I mean, you know, Elon Musk
- 46:49openly said, you know, I'm not just MAGA, I'm dark MAGA.
- 46:54And the whole crowd cheers and goes wild.
- 46:57And they've no idea what he's talking about.
- 46:58You know, this is reference to something called the Dark
- 47:01Enlightenment. I won't get into the details
- 47:04here. I did a, a roundtable on this
- 47:06with. That's the one.
- 47:09I'm glad. I'm glad, you know.
- 47:10Yeah, Curtis Yavin, his, his, his, his real name.
- 47:13You know, these are neo reactionary figures which have
- 47:18kind of produced a a philosophy, if you like, which serves as an
- 47:24intellectual legitimization of what these technocrats are
- 47:28trying to do. And what Ian Davis and I both we
- 47:32both reach the same conclusion, having read some of this work
- 47:35first hand, that intellectually it's tremendously flimsy.
- 47:39I mean, it's just dreadful that the ideas are awful, the
- 47:42arguments are terrible, doesn't hang together.
- 47:45But Musk and others are perfectly happy to allude to it,
- 47:51to legitimize what they're trying to do.
- 47:53And again, seeing as that you've you've just mentioned Yavin
- 47:57there in 2008, Curtis Yavin came out with what he called, and I
- 48:04quote, a humane alternative to genocide.
- 48:10And he was arguing back in 2008 that the advancing technologies
- 48:16would render more and more people unemployed and redundant.
- 48:21And So what do you do with this mass of people?
- 48:24And he came out of this horrific idea.
- 48:26He referred to the kind of a lava, a cocoon that you wrap
- 48:30them in. And he invoked Ray Kurzweil's
- 48:32idea of fully immersive virtual reality.
- 48:35And so essentially you, you, you put them in this state where
- 48:39they're living in a, you call it a fake reality.
- 48:42You know, it seems real to them, but it's 100% fake.
- 48:44And, and this is, this is his idea of morality.
- 48:46You know, this is better than just exterminating them.
- 48:48He said, I mean, these are the kind of characters and ideas
- 48:51that we're dealing with. But again, you see, this comes
- 48:53back at us in 2020 with Yuval Noah Harari, and he's talking
- 48:59about what he calls the useless class.
- 49:01You know what? What are we going to do with all
- 49:03these people once, once the AI takes their jobs?
- 49:05And what did he say? Drugs and video games.
- 49:09I mean, these are horrendous, horrendous.
- 49:12People and horrendous ideas. Can I jump in there?
- 49:15I've I've thought about this and I've asked a few people those
- 49:18questions I'll ask you also. I don't think I've ever heard,
- 49:23and I'm not in any way taking their side, but I've not in any
- 49:28way ever heard Ferrari or Javan or Schwab would ever say I would
- 49:33like to see this. Are they not merely projecting
- 49:38what they think is coming? No, I, I, what they're trying to
- 49:49do is to find ways of legitimizing the kind of plans
- 49:56that they have in place. And ultimately this is what
- 50:00technocracy entails. It is about taking away personal
- 50:05liberty and control over 1's life and placing it in the hands
- 50:09of the technocrats, which is a very small group of people which
- 50:13are at the controls. They have the joysticks, they
- 50:16are in charge of the scientific management of society.
- 50:19They get to decide what resources you are allocated and
- 50:23how far you can straight from your 15 minute city and so on.
- 50:27It is ultimately a, a slavery system.
- 50:32And so even though they might not openly come out and say,
- 50:36yes, this is what I want to see, I'm pretty confident that it is.
- 50:40It's, it's a necessary part of what they're trying to achieve.
- 50:44Now, one of the rhetorical devices that they use is to talk
- 50:50about things as though they're inevitable.
- 50:53So technological determinism is a key part of this, quite apart
- 50:57from politics and society, et cetera, technology just has its
- 51:00own logic and it just kind of advances regardless, and it
- 51:03always has done. And it's the technology that
- 51:05drives history. And that's a very kind of
- 51:07convenient position if you're one of them.
- 51:11But of course, it's not true. I mean, if you think about
- 51:13nanotechnology and all of the nefarious purposes to which that
- 51:17could be put, this didn't just happen.
- 51:20You know, technology just didn't kind of naturally evolve in this
- 51:23way. There were deliberate political
- 51:25decisions taking taken around the turn of the Millennium to
- 51:29start investing massive amounts of money into nanotechnology
- 51:32research. There were agendas behind this.
- 51:35In other words, it was by design.
- 51:38And so they can hide all they like behind these narratives
- 51:42about, oh, this is just happening, we can't stop the
- 51:44March of AI, we can't etcetera, etcetera.
- 51:47But actually it's all planned and it's all part of the attempt
- 51:51to place all power globally in the hands of very, very few
- 51:55people. But then is is the inevitable
- 52:03outcome inevitable? No, absolutely not.
- 52:07The outcome is always determined in the struggle.
- 52:09And This is why I am very keen in my work to always reiterate
- 52:14the class relations behind this. And of course they've, you know,
- 52:20they, they do all they can to deflect away from thinking in
- 52:24class terms through kind of woke and gender politics, identity
- 52:30politics and, and all of this kind of stuff so that people
- 52:33think of themselves kind of individualistic terms.
- 52:36But fundamentally, as I say in the 1st 5 words of my book, this
- 52:40is a global class war that is now happening.
- 52:43And there is the the the the capitalist system has become
- 52:47disproportionately skewed so that a tiny proportion of the
- 52:52world's population controls the vast majority of its wealth.
- 52:56And it's skewed almost exponentially as you go up
- 52:58towards the top 1%, the top nought .1%, nought point nought
- 53:021% and so on. So, so much of the wealth now is
- 53:06contained in just the hands of those very few people, and
- 53:10they're trying to subjugate everybody else.
- 53:13So the outcome is far from determined.
- 53:17They want us to think that it is.
- 53:19They want us to think that it's hopeless.
- 53:20This is all part of the psychological operations.
- 53:24Again, I've got sections on this in my work on COVID.
- 53:28You know, at the time, one of the things that they kept doing
- 53:30is to just try and convince us. It was, it was endless.
- 53:32It was never going to, it was never going to stop.
- 53:34You know, was it Susan Mickey, for example, when she was asked
- 53:38in an interview, how long do you think the public should keep
- 53:40wearing masks? And she just said, oh, forever.
- 53:44These kinds of tricks were were used repeatedly to create this
- 53:48demoralization, the sense of despair, the sense that things
- 53:50are never going to end. And it's always this way, you
- 53:54know, to create the sense that we can't win, that we are like
- 53:57children. They use a lot of infantilizing
- 53:59rhetoric. And meanwhile, they're kind of
- 54:02like these omnipotent gods that have the power to just shut down
- 54:05most of the world's economy overnight.
- 54:08This is what they want us to believe.
- 54:10But actually the the objective reality is completely different
- 54:14that you have a bunch of very desperate people trying to pull
- 54:20off something which is so audacious.
- 54:22I mean, trying to collapse liberal democracy and replace it
- 54:24with technocracy. I mean, you are attacking human
- 54:29freedom. You're attacking nation, you're
- 54:31attacking family, you're attacking all of the values that
- 54:35both left and right stand for. I mean, nobody has anything to
- 54:39gain from this. So I think that the more people
- 54:43see it, the more pushback there will be and the more futile
- 54:46these these technocratic agendas will become.
- 54:49So again. I'm optimistic, but you've
- 54:53mentioned liberal democracy a few Times Now.
- 54:56I personally am not a fan of democracy at all.
- 55:01Why do you think the destruction of liberal democracy is a bad
- 55:06thing? Well, that's a a really
- 55:10interesting question, and I agree that liberal democracy as
- 55:14it has developed over the course of the 20th century has
- 55:18essentially been a cover for capitalist relations, which are
- 55:24tremendously exploitative and predatory and legitimized also.
- 55:29Voting. Voting is just theatre.
- 55:31Yes, it is. Yeah, I I agree.
- 55:34I mean, yeah, I mean, it's, it's far from an ideal system.
- 55:40It's certainly a lot better than than Technocracy.
- 55:43Either way. I, I think it's finished
- 55:46because, I mean, the powers that be have, have have used liberal
- 55:52democracy as their their chosen kind of form of political regime
- 55:55for for many decades. And even they are now trying to
- 55:58dismantle it. So quite apart from the fact
- 56:01that it's really always been a sham and it's always been, you
- 56:04know, the, the manufacturing of consent, you know, these ideas
- 56:07were around 100 years ago. It's amazing, you know, just how
- 56:11successful this has been over the course of a century to
- 56:13persuade people that this is really in their interests.
- 56:17But either way, it's, it's on its way out now.
- 56:19The, the, the big question is what comes next?
- 56:23And this could go in multiple different directions.
- 56:26I mean, yes, the the the dystopian hellish vision of a
- 56:29global technocracy is 1 outcome chaos as as things spiral out of
- 56:35control is, is another option. I would like to think that
- 56:40collectively we are able to come up with a more positive vision
- 56:45towards which we can build and work.
- 56:48And that is what I think is sadly lacking at the moment.
- 56:52There's so much talk about the darker aspects, what they are
- 56:56doing about their psychological operations, etcetera.
- 56:59What's really needed is a positive narrative of our own.
- 57:04I mean, if you think about Bob Moran's picture, the good Reset,
- 57:07yeah. I mean, that's an example of, of
- 57:10of trying to do this, imagining what the world could look like,
- 57:13providing some kind of positive vision for us to aspire to.
- 57:18So if I were to kind of, you know, be thinking strategically
- 57:21about what's needed next, you know, I, I think that we need
- 57:24the best thinkers out there to be actually coming up with that
- 57:27kind of a vision and something that people can really, really
- 57:30buy into because there's too much negativity, There's too
- 57:32much kind of. Blackpilling.
- 57:36Blackpilling, Exactly. But again, you know, you think
- 57:38about what we've got here. The technologies that exist in
- 57:41the world today, even though they are being put to very
- 57:46nefarious purposes, could do a tremendous amount of good.
- 57:49I mean, if you have that amount of information about everybody,
- 57:53surely it becomes possible to distribute wealth more equitably
- 57:57among society. You know, what need is there
- 58:00for, for, for wars, really, if, if this technology were to be
- 58:05expropriated from the hands of this kind of minuscule, very
- 58:08nefarious group, the world could be so much better, unimaginably
- 58:13better. You know, there'd be an
- 58:14abundance of wealth. I mean, Katherine Austin Fitz
- 58:16has talked about this very often that the lengths that they go
- 58:20to, to suppressors, I mean, just the amount of money it must
- 58:24cost, just maintain this, you know, these relentless
- 58:27propaganda campaigns and the psychological operations and and
- 58:30so on. You know, they have to go to so
- 58:33much effort and cost to keep the global population in check.
- 58:40Imagine what we could do without all of those constraints.
- 58:43I mean, the future could be incredible, but how many people
- 58:48ever really think that way? I think we need to start
- 58:51adopting a much more positive mindset if we're to bring people
- 58:54with us. I think it was Yuri Besmanov in
- 58:58his interview with G Edward Griffin back and was it 83 or
- 59:008484? We spoke about various
- 59:06characteristics of, of of control mechanisms, which I
- 59:09think you've echoed in your work, things like demoralization
- 59:13and destabilization and disorientating people and that
- 59:15sort of thing. So one obvious way to look at
- 59:20this is to make sure that you are not demoralized and that
- 59:23you're not disorientated. Know who you are, know what your
- 59:28meaning and purpose is when you wake up in the morning.
- 59:30And for goodness sake, don't doom scroll.
- 59:33You know, get fit, go into the sun, eat healthy, strengthen
- 59:39your your family connections and your friendships and your
- 59:42networks. It seems pretty obvious.
- 59:46Yeah, it does. And again, they've done their
- 59:48best to make sure that we do none of those things.
- 59:52I mean, you know, the whole lockdown idea, you know, stay
- 59:55indoors, don't see the sun, don't exercise, don't see your
- 59:58family. I mean, you know, it's
- 1:00:00horrendous what they tried to do, the addictive power of
- 1:00:04social media. Highly, highly problematic.
- 1:00:07I mean, I don't know how much time the average person spends
- 1:00:10on social media per day instead of real social connections.
- 1:00:15And the doom scrolling is a, is a, is a terrible phenomenon.
- 1:00:18I mean, this is all known to have, you know, bad effects on
- 1:00:21people's mental health. And even worse than that, you
- 1:00:26are essentially trapping yourself in their technocratic
- 1:00:30system because the news feeds that you see, etcetera on
- 1:00:33Facebook and X or what you know, wherever you're getting in news,
- 1:00:36they're all manipulated through algorithms.
- 1:00:40Whatever tweets or whatever you put out, you've no idea how many
- 1:00:44people they're reaching. And indeed, it's becoming pretty
- 1:00:47obvious now, you know, with the Linda Yacarino principle of
- 1:00:51freedom of speech, but not reach.
- 1:00:53You can say whatever you like. Yeah, free speech go, man, but
- 1:00:57no one's going to hear you. So why?
- 1:00:59You know, why would you deliberately put yourself in
- 1:01:01that kind of digital prison space?
- 1:01:03I mean, I'm deliberately not on social media for that very
- 1:01:07reason. The amount of time that people
- 1:01:10spend on their smartphones and the fact that people, you can't
- 1:01:14live without them. I mean, this is a form of
- 1:01:16addiction. You know, if you can't drive
- 1:01:19from A to B without using a sat NAV, you, you've got a problem.
- 1:01:25You know, if you can't go to bed without taking your phone with
- 1:01:28you, you've got a problem. If you can't lead your life
- 1:01:31without using multiple apps all the time, you've got a problem.
- 1:01:35Because you are increasingly you are consenting and acquiescing
- 1:01:39and integrating yourself into that technocratic system.
- 1:01:43And the more you do so, the more easier it becomes to manage you.
- 1:01:47And that's before we get into the, the whole area of, of
- 1:01:50technologies going under the skin and, and intercorporeal
- 1:01:53technologies. So people have to take that
- 1:01:56responsibility again and withdraw from the everything
- 1:02:01that that points towards technocracy and do the kind of
- 1:02:03things that you were just describing.
- 1:02:07David, how can I follow you? Best place is on sub stack D
- 1:02:11hughes.substack.com or David A hughes.net.
- 1:02:17David A Hughes, thank you for joining me in the trenches.
- 1:02:21Pleasure, Joe. Thanks very much.