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|content=Soapbox speech over. | |||
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As always, thanks for listening and letting me try out these ideas at scale. đ | |||
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|content=The cognitive tools for understanding any rationale behind NIH funded Gain of Function Research in China are almost certainly being withheld. | |content=The cognitive tools for understanding any rationale behind NIH funded Gain of Function Research in China are almost certainly being withheld. | ||
Look at it from the point of a true believer in the system. âWe have to not lose the bioweapon arms race & should keep our rivals close.â | Look at it from the point of a true believer in the system. âWe have to not lose the bioweapon arms race & should keep our rivals close.â | ||
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|content=âBut the public will never understand a partnership with our main rival as being safer than being frozen out of all CCP decisions. On the other hand we canât be seen as engaging in a bioweapons arms race. So we had myriad ways to evade the optics of what we were actually doing.â | |||
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|content=âThen COVID got out. Suddenly the whole world was talking about zoonotic bat respiratory Corona viruses: a subject the public had never heard of before. Our excuses & proxies for what is essentially military strategy for containment of CCP biowarfare ambitions were center stage.â | |||
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|content=âOnly we canât talk about this. And our strategy that worked well enough when no one in the public knew âGain of Functionâ, âSpike Proteinâ or âZoonoticâ terms stopped working when everyone on the planet was forced to become amateur scientists. Then we lost âLab Leak is racismâ.â | |||
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|content=âSo what do we do? Do we have an open town-hall to explain all things that are part of delicate multi decade Wash DC political insider theory like âConstructive engagementâ, âIranian Nuclear Containmentâ, âTwo State Solutionâ? Of course not. Thatâs why we have an expert class.â | |||
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|content=So we sit around with the expert class withholding all the cognitive tools âwe the peopleâ need to figure out whether we have the CORRECT public spirited Elite. Which we do not. | |||
Thus the âeliteâ get more and more resentful that we are meddling in âtheirâ strategic endeavors. Ha. | |||
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 | |content=The idea that itâs time to come clean about Epstein, Iran, the West Bank, Strategic Engagement, Nuclear Bluffing, Climate & Wealth, internal spying, Assange and Snowden, simply never occurs to a class that believes it is acting in a way that can NEVER be open to public scrutiny. | ||
Thus the âeliteâ get more and more resentful that we are meddling in âtheirâ strategic endeavors. Ha. The idea that itâs time to come clean about Epstein, Iran, the West Bank, Strategic Engagement, Nuclear Bluffing, Climate & Wealth, internal spying, Assange and Snowden, simply never occurs to a class that believes it is acting in a way that can NEVER be open to public scrutiny. | |timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021 | ||
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Start from this insider premise that is never said out loud, âThe purpose of democracy is to give the public the most minimal choice over multi-decade cryptic strategies that must be managed by insider classes, so that they can only slightly course correct from expert consensus.â | {{Tweet | ||
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The populist premise is simpler: âYou insiders seem to be incompetent at your jobs & more than competent at your extraction of wealth & obfuscation of all with which you have been entrusted. How can we force you âeliteâ to account for your non-elite malfeasance and incompetence?â | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630284099428353 | ||
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Thatâs how I see it. We have to stop talking about this in the exact terms we are handed by the very âeliteâ who donât want us talking about the real issues. We need to stop using the framings weâre handed. | |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein | ||
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|content=Start from this insider premise that is never said out loud, âThe purpose of democracy is to give the public the most minimal choice over multi-decade cryptic strategies that must be managed by insider classes, so that they can only slightly course correct from expert consensus.â | |||
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|content=The populist premise is simpler: âYou insiders seem to be incompetent at your jobs & more than competent at your extraction of wealth & obfuscation of all with which you have been entrusted. How can we force you âeliteâ to account for your non-elite malfeasance and incompetence?â | |||
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|content=Thatâs how I see it. We have to stop talking about this in the exact terms we are handed by the very âeliteâ who donât want us talking about the real issues. We need to stop using the framings weâre handed. | |||
For example, âGain of Functionâ is largely a euphemism for âweaponizedâ. | For example, âGain of Functionâ is largely a euphemism for âweaponizedâ. | ||
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Do I believe in an actual Elite that cannot share everything with the public. Yeah. Think about it; It cannot be otherwise. | }} | ||
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|content=Do I believe in an actual Elite that cannot share everything with the public. Yeah. Think about it; It cannot be otherwise. | |||
Do I believe in this *elite*? This is the Keystone Cops meets Mr Magoo. | Do I believe in this *elite*? This is the Keystone Cops meets Mr Magoo. | ||
So I am neither a populist nor a defender of the system as it is currently found. | So I am neither a populist nor a defender of the system as it is currently found. | ||
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We should join the populists in demanding answers based on pathological extractive, unethical and incompetent behavior. | }} | ||
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|content=We should join the populists in demanding answers based on pathological extractive, unethical and incompetent behavior. | |||
But you cannot âburn it all the fuck downâ, put it all on the blockchain or vote for complete transparency either. | But you cannot âburn it all the fuck downâ, put it all on the blockchain or vote for complete transparency either. | ||
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We need a well paid actual public spirited elite public servant class. | }} | ||
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|content=We need a well paid actual public spirited elite public servant class. | |||
And no one I know is willing to say this. They either defend the system as is, or want some radical revolution. | And no one I know is willing to say this. They either defend the system as is, or want some radical revolution. | ||
We need new folks in their 20s-50s. Not Fauci. Not Biden. Not Trump. Not Pelosi. Not McConnell. | We need new folks in their 20s-50s. Not Fauci. Not Biden. Not Trump. Not Pelosi. Not McConnell. | ||
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|content=If youâve been in power for a long time and are now in your 70s & 80s? It is simply time to go. Thatâs not ageism. | |||
Thatâs an IMPLICIT part of the system. Weâve never before remotely had a President & core group this out of touch, this old, and this technically over their heads. | |||
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Thatâs an IMPLICIT part of the system. Weâve never before remotely had a President & core group this out of touch, this old, and this technically over their heads. | }} | ||
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