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A Confluence of Monopolies, Manipulations, and Moore’s Law
by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute

The current crisis is the story of: 

1. Billionaires = unprecedented personal power
   
   There have always been very rich people who bend society to serve their personal interests. But today’s billionaires have so much more power at their fingertips. They can write a check to a PR firm with 100,000 employees around the globe, or buy a slate of politicians, or hire a private intelligence agency like BlackCube made up of former Mossad agents to blackmail a rival, manipulate a market, or rig an election. Bill Gates, the Wellcome Trust, and BlackRock are key instigators of the Covid crisis. Billionaires are playing a different game than the rest of us and the WEF is one of their coordinating councils (I’m sure there are many more that we cannot see).
2. Monopolies = unprecedented corporate power
   
   The classic economic liberalism of Adam Smith does not exist anymore. In its place are oligopolies and monopolies. The US is controlled by ten cartels and collectively they are destroying our country and enslaving the population. The economics of monopoly capitalism are completely different than the economics of liberal capitalism. Under monopoly capitalism firms set prices, write the laws, and generally do not have to compete (instead they use bottlenecks and the coercive power of the state to extract economic rents from the population). 
3. Psyops = unprecedented psychological insight deployed in service of unprecedented government/corporate power
   
   The CIA has spent the last 77 years studying human behavior and ways to manipulate and control the human mind. They learned from the best psychologists, researched how various chemicals impact the brain, and mastered the art of television and film for the purposes of persuasion. The Asch Conformity Experiment, Stanford Prison Experiment, and Milgram Experiment revealed that 65% to 75% of society are basically non-playing characters who will do whatever they are told. The CIA then conducted countless experiments to hone their craft and reshape society. The CIA weaponized this knowledge to serve the interests of their clients — first the US government and large multinational corporations and now they’ve gone rogue and they just serve their own interests. 
4. Moore’s Law = unprecedented computing power for tracking, surveilling, and hypnotizing people and controlling the narrative
   
   “Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years with minimal rise in cost.” The Nazis organized a genocide with simple IBM punch cards. Today, Big Tech knows where we live, who our friends and family are, what we buy, and all of our emotional triggers. Search engines and social media algorithms control what we read and what we are allowed to say in the digital public square and in the process they ultimately shape our thoughts. 
5. Vaccine injury, psychopharmaceuticals, and cluster B personality disorders = unprecedented mental illness, particularly in those attracted to power
   
   We are in the midst of an ongoing mass poisoning of society. Most people are vaccine-injured. About a quarter of the population is on psychopharmaceuticals. Our food, air, and water are laden with heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Electromagnetic frequencies and radiofrequency radiation contribute to the problem. Nearly everyone carries around a device that destroys attention and increases anxiety and loneliness. Wealthy and powerful people can shield themselves from some of this (e.g. by eating organic food) but not all of it. People with cluster B personality disorders (‌antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders) have always been drawn to power and now they are additionally afflicted and rule over an increasingly mentally compromised population. 
6. CRISPR/Cas9 and biochemistry = unprecedented ability to manipulate the material world.
   
   The National Socialists in Germany murdered millions of people based on a twisted understanding of Mendelian genetics. Now the eugenicists can manipulate any genetic material as easily as cutting and pasting letters in Microsoft Word. They’re bad at it right now but their ability to manipulate the fundamental building blocks of life will increase over time and they’ve already demonstrated that they cannot resist playing God. 

What would you add to this list? 

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II. A Confluence of Unprecedented Circumstances

All of those things (billionaires, monopolies, psyops, Moore’s law, vaccine injury, and CRISPR) came together in Covid to create a new psychopathic ruling class with unprecedented powers. 

And because the base determines the superstructure we now live in an economy of slavery and a culture of totalitarianism. 

As I’ve pointed out before, the largest growth industry in the US is making people sick and then profiting from their ineffective treatment. And that system is kept in place by a totalitarian ideology that normalizes this behavior. 

If you turn on the mainstream media (NPR, MSNBC, CNN), or listen to any of the pronouncements from the WHO, UN, NIH, FDA, CDC, etc. you will hear an ideology of total control. It operates from the belief that we can and must control all aspects of existence — the biome, the virome, human DNA, the weather, thoughts, speech, actions, and all aspects of daily life. China is the testing ground, the ideal, the model. The robber baron foundations are among the chief ideologues. But it’s everywhere — in academia, the Aspen Institute, civil society, etc.

Now these forces have taken on a life of their own. I doubt that anyone is in charge. All of these key actors and institutions are just following an instinct of more, more, more (power, wealth, sadism, control) without regard for why they are doing that. I doubt it even brings them much increased happiness at this point. Our society has become the proverbial runaway freight train. 

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III. What Is to Be Done

If the above is true, perhaps the remedies are closer at hand than we might think. 

The remedy for billionaires is taxation. We’ve had 90% tax rates above a certain earnings threshold before. If absolute power really does corrupt absolutely one can just tax that absolute power out of existence. There are 2,781 billionaires in the world and I can only think of one, Elon Musk, who uses his wealth for good (even then I don’t trust him). 

The remedy for monopolies and oligopolies is antitrust. We can just break up these companies and eliminate the concept of limited liability altogether. I’m reading Amy Klobuchar’s book Antitrust and I don’t think she fully appreciates how bad the problem is right now. Furthermore, I do not believe that antitrust has ever fully been carried out. When Standard Oil was broken up they just created 34 mini Standard Oils and those companies still control the energy market today (including Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and Marathon). 

We can and must break up Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Pfizer, Moderna, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck. But why stop there? We should also break up McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain, Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and other oligopolies. And for the love of all that is holy can we please block asset managers from voting the underlying shares (that they don’t own)!? We should also apply antitrust to private foundations and intergovernmental agencies that behave like oligopolies including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, GAVI, CEPI, and the NIH, FDA, and CDC foundations. 

Not all of our remedies need to have a one-to-one correspondence with the problems described above. But: 

• Cutting the size of government in half while massively increasing the number of representatives (to be more like Denmark with each federal legislative seat representing about 35,000 people) would reduce corruption. I confess I’m also fascinated by the recent decision by the legislature in Mexico to convert all 7,000 judgeships in that country into elected positions and think we should study that as a potential tool for fighting corruption as well (of course that depends on an ironclad voting system). 
• Ending intellectual property protections for Pharma would massively decrease prices and paradoxically probably increase innovation (because right now Pharma does not innovate since it’s just cheaper to buy the regulatory system). 
• Simply enforcing the law against bribery, blackmail, murder, etc. would massively curtail the activities of the intelligence agencies. 
• And of course gain-of-function research must be banned and many bioweapons scientists must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. It’s really insane that this has not happened already. 

If society collapses, those who are already wealthy and powerful are best positioned to use that to their advantage so that’s not a future we should wish for. It’s much more likely that everything will happen at the margins and we should do everything we can to influence that by building upon the norms of the liberal tradition. 

Republished from the author’s Substack

A Confluence of Monopolies, Manipulations, and Moore’s Law
by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute – Daily Economics, Policy, Public Health, Society

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