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 - '''Eric Weinstein''' on [[ep25|The Portal #25]] on March 7, 2020
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+''I believe that if you would review the video—where is it from, Dubai or Abu Dhabi?—of the mysterious hit on the hotel guest—you ever seen this thing?—No. Oh, it's the assassination in 2010, 10 years ago, of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, something like that, in Dubai, where I believe 26 separate individuals on multiple teams are shown converging, coming in from all over the world on false passports, pretending to be tennis players or, you know, business people or vacationers. And all of these teams have different functions. And they murder this guy in his hotel room. And the Dubai guest chief of police security officer was so angered that he put together this amazing video that says, "We can completely detail what you did. We caught you on closed circuit TV. We don't know exactly who you are, because of your disguises and your false passports. But yeah, 26 people converged to kill one." No, I don't believe you. I don't believe, after CoIntelPro, and Operation Paperclip, and Operation Mockingbird—I don't know whether I should even bring up Rex 84—to not believe in conspiracies is an idiocy.
+''First of all, when evil wants to operate at scale, it needs to make sure that people don't try to figure out evil. When evil operates at scale, from first principles, you have to realize that evil must not want it[self] investigated. The most efficient way to keep yourself from being investigated, if you are an evil institutional player who needs to do this repeatedly, is to invest in a world in which no one can afford to say the word "conspiracy". You will notice that there is a special radioactivity around the word "conspiracy". We have provable conspiracies, we have admitted to conspiracies, you have been invited to conspiracies. There is no shortage conspiracies are everywhere. Some of them are mundane. Some of them are like price fixing cartels, you know, or trade groups are, generally speaking, conspiracies. So the first thing you have to realize is that all of us are in a memetic complex where you can be taken off the chessboard by saying "conspiracy theory". Get done. It's like a one line proof: "We don't have to listen to Lex. He said he was a conspiracy theorist on this show." Okay. That is partially distorting our conversation. If you want to ask me about Jeffrey Epstein, you have to agree with me that that is a logical description of what you would have to have if you wanted to commit conspiracies, is that you have to make sure that people are dissuaded from investigating....
+''My point, there is Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing, where you look at the history of unearthed conspiracies, and just like you would with any other topic, just think about how different the rules in your mind are for conspiracy theorizing versus x theorizing where x can be anything. Right? It's like if I say to you— I can say the statement that "average weight is not the same between widely separated populations". You'd say, "Yeah", I'd say "average height is not the same between widely separated populations". You'd say "yeah", and I say, "in fact, no continuous variable that shows variation should be expected to be identical between widely separate—", "Of course, Eric", "Like IQ." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on." Right? So we have a violent reaction to specific topics. So the first thing I want to do is just to notice that "conspiracy" has that built into everyone's mind.
+''I just watched the film 1971 about my favorite conspiracy of all time, I highly recommend it. The film is titled "1971", and it's about the Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI, which was run by a student of Murray Gell Mann, a physicist, and broke into FBI offices in Pennsylvania to steal files, which allowed Freedom of Information requests that discovered a huge conspiracy. It was a conspiracy that unearthed a conspiracy inside the federal government, a double conspiracy story, which launched multiple conspiracies. I think that the problem with modern Americans is that they are so timid, that they don't even learn about the history of conspiracies that we have absolutely proven. So with that done, Jeff Epstein, in my opinion, represented somebody's construction.''
+- '''Eric Weinstein''' on [https://youtu.be/o2nG7-eXxko?t=8498 Lex Fridman #134] on Oct 29, 2020
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