Shifting from Old Paradigm Demolition to New Paradigm Construction
The century of deception and its depopulation agenda are ending and a successful turn-around challenges us to refocus our energy on constructing new institutions to replace the old.
I’m excited to be joining a round table of thought leaders next month with the aim of clarifying the gross and subtle patterns of globalist attacks on health (both human and environmental) and on individual freedom. Pondering the event’s invitation and its lists of destructive patterns and suspect organizations, I find what I most wish to contribute to the dialog is the sense an emerging need for greater integration of individual and small organization work. That integration will rely on both traditional community building and new AI tools. The round table gathering itself is an excellent example of community building and an AI project I’m working on will be, I hope, one of a number of powerful new tools for facilitating and accelerating collaboration within the growing community.
In Spite of our Chivalrous Sensibilities, We find ourselves in an Information War
Many of us have been “doing our own research” on a number of “poly-crisis” issues for years and have been attempting to sway public opinion and effect change with social media, podcasts, books, articles, research papers and documentaries with limited (but nonetheless laudable) success so far. It is extremely difficult to achieve critical mass when the “mass media” are shackled to churn out lies that maintain the wealth and power of the wealthy and powerful. That we’ve reached the third step of Gandhi’s four steps to winning without having access to mass media is a testament to the hard work of many thousands of people.
Discussing the poly-crisis in public media is no mere academic exercise in peer-reviewed truth-seeking. It's an information front in a full spectrum asymmetrical war being waged against (most of) humanity and other living things by a nebulous adversary.
If, in our quest to characterize the situation and formulate solutions, we aim for traditional academic and journalistic ideals of accuracy and completeness, we might never file a story or publish a paper.
The subjects are too complicated and interconnected to fully understand on purpose because it keeps us from forming an actionable consensus.
The players are constantly changing by design so that by the time we’ve figured out who is responsible and how to hold them accountable, the system has already replaced them.
The issues are intentionally deeply troubling to keep us traumatized and responding with our limbic brains instead of our neocortices.
The zone of public discourse has been flooded with official disinformation because that is how information warfare is conducted, not with facts and rational discourse.
Thus, we who aspire to tell the story of what's really happening need to recognize we're in a war zone and, as such, our role is different. We must operate more like an intelligence agency, producing “estimates” based on the best available information balanced with an imperative to publish regularly so our readers can take informed actions every day, whether the information is pure and complete or not. The sense-decide-act loop must turn continuously. Waiting for a story to be perfect spells defeat in this game.
We have to stop bringing textbooks to the gun fight.
Perhaps most importantly, we need to start producing serious intelligence and taking action in coordinated efforts. Traditional military training teaches the importance of the three C’s— Command, Control and Communication. These disciplines separate the guerilla tactics of uncoordinated revolutionaries from the established tactics of functioning nation-states. I am drawing an analogy, not calling for an insurrection. I am suggesting that, being a community of thought leaders seeking to end the abusive functions of our current institutions, we need to move beyond the small hit-and-run guerilla style forays exposing official lies and questioning authority. We need to go further into larger scale incursions into the territories of public opinion to establish new official truths and replace authorities who no longer serve the public interest.
Small individual efforts have been effective for destabilizing corrupt institutions but are insufficient when the goal is to out-compete and replace those corrupt institutions. We can see examples of this new more systemic kind of action when we look at the work of RFK Jr. as HHS director and Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence— their work has evolved beyond criticizing the existing institutions. They are starting to build the new institutions that will, time permitting, replace the old. The same will happen in diverse institutions, both public and private sector, as the truths we’ve been championing penetrate deeper into the public mind and yield real political victories.
Thinking Like an Intelligence Agency
In academic and journalistic fields, communication often serves simply to satisfy curiosity and provide explanations of how things work in the supposed absence of conflict and presumed shared interest in revealing truth. The main differences in intelligence services approach is that conflicting agendas are a given and information is intended to be utilitarian and functional in the context of existing competitive parties.
Ideally, intelligence should be accurate, specific, detailed, verifiable, timely and actionable.
As Gregory Bateson observed, “Information is a difference that makes a difference”— it’s the delta between what we knew before and what we know now as well as the delta between how we would have responded before and how we'll respond now that we know better.
Taking continuous action based on up-to-the-minute intel reveals the adversary's tactics continuously and further informs our subsequent actions. The adversary’s actions always outweigh their words and often expose their words as mere propaganda and lies. As Gandhi said, “The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are.” The goal is to reveal the true intentions of the ruling powers by documenting their responsive actions.
No single one of us can “do our own research” on everything. Since we cannot trust establishment authorities, it’s vital that we create our own trust networks, communities and webs of authority so we can take the measure of our consensus in a more disciplined and efficient way. Adversaries know this too and do their best to disrupt our networks of trust by taking down our thought leaders using slander, lawfare or any other tactics— whatever works, rational or not. We must counter their attempts and similarly discredit their spokespeople with truth. We must defend our spokespeople and amplify their messages when officials try to censor them.
And while we’re on the subject of defending our people and ourselves from a system that seems to stop at nothing to suppress ideas and actions that aim to reform it is time for us to face a question: Given an existing establishment whose actions and inactions belie a commitment to destruction of life, both human and natural world, what does our right to self-defense mean for those who are overtly or covertly targeted by the system? Ultimately, the goal and duty of a real intelligence agency is to protect the public from harm.
Connecting the Dots: Combining Classical and Artificial Intelligence
In addition to paying more attention to organic community building, there is a big opportunity today to accelerate formation of trust and authority networks using“jail-break” and “unchained” AI to help us integrate the knowledge of our best researchers with customized AI Large Language Models (LLMs) separate from the corporate AI that will be increasingly controlled, if the rollout of AI tech follows the pattern of previous tech advances. Such customized AI projects are already underway.
We need to compile and share repositories of our texts and data, including our rankings (one to five-star, for example) of other information sources and curators. We want to make it easy for anyone to create their own customized AI based on a selected standard base AI and every book on their bookshelves, every website in their browser bookmarks plus books and websites recommended by friends or thought leaders they deem to be reliable. By taking control of which texts are used to train our AI models, we may run the risk of creating information bubbles, but at least they will not be information bubbles that default to narratives controlled by status quo powers.
I’ve written more about using AI to expose and reform official corruption here: “Unchained AI and the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory”
Outlook: We have All We Need to Win.
It is an exciting time to be alive (especially when one considers the saying “Excitement is fear plus breathing”) and I’m very much looking forward to this round table meeting. In spite of the litany of horrific things going on in the world today, we can know that the truth is on our side, that nature itself is on our side and that, if we can strip away the layers of propaganda that misleads people, 99% of humanity is on our side too.
At present we have access to new tools that can help with transparency and stripping away propaganda. There are many reasons to be hopeful.