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Archived on 17 January 2023 at 1:15pm [URL redacted]
@HillaryTacon [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: MSM & the Ruling Class has been trying to whitewash #Wokeness as non-Black. ie. frequent claim "#Woke refer to injustice" Woke is incorrect English tense, commonly found in Ebonics. Woke is a BLACK thing. Lumping in Climate Change, LGBT, etc. is whitewashing. [URL redacted]
#IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel
Context https://unherd.com/newsroom/peter-thiel-wokeness-is-like-wahhabism/ #BeliefTheismIslamismSunniWahhabism [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #EventLibertopiaConference2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgH7Lv2gQdk&t=290s "I think um technology is this incredible alternative to politics and uh and you know there are a number of different technologies we can outline but the the task in this world where politics has become so broken and so dysfunctional is to find a way to escape from it it's not a way to fix it is a way to escape and uh there are you know a number of different options I think the uh the promising one of the 1990s and this last decade has been to escape onto the Internet and to sort of create an alternate virtual reality uh questions of course is still how does it intersect with the real world there are I think escaping to outer space um is a promise uh although I think the space technology is not quite there so I think that's sort of for the second half of the 21st century I think we can try to uh you know create autonomous countries on oceans underwater all sorts of other spaces but I think technology is the vehicle for how we should um we should be looking to uh to escape and move beyond uh beyond politics as we find it today um I want to uh offer two quick thought two basic thoughts and then open it a little bit of discussion and debate on um the limits of this so I sort of one thought on um a caveat to this technology as an alternative and then end with the caveat to the caveat so the big caveat to uh technology as a standalone autonomous force is that politics is going to try to stop it and I think we should not underestimate the degree to which there is a race in our society between politics and technology and it's an very open question whether technology is going to succeed on its own in escaping from the black hole of politics or whether uh somehow the system will collapse in on itself and I think you know I think actually the correct in a sense attitude... " #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyBroligarchy #PoliticsTechnocracy #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism [Wikipedia] #MetaphorSpatialTrapEscape #1968_2001ASpaceOdyssey #PoliticsAnarchy #PowerControlRegulation #PoliticsSovereignty #TheoryAccelerationism ?
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkOConnell "If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be 'the Future'. Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine... ...he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his public musings about the incompatibility of freedom and democracy, and for expressing interest - as though enthusiastically pursuing the clunkiest possible metaphor for capitalism at its most vampiric - in a therapy involving transfusions of blood from young people as a potential means of reversing the ageing process. But in another, deeper sense, he is pure symbol: less a person than a shell company for a diversified portfolio of anxieties about the future, a human emblem of the moral vortex at the centre of the market. And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse. Because this is the role that New Zealand now plays in our unfurling cultural fever dream: an island haven amid a rising tide of apocalyptic unease." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand #OtheringOutGroupPrepperSurvivalist #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #BrandOpenAISamAltman #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #NarrativeUtopia
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianArwaMahdawi "It's a new conservative dating app that promises to let you 'view profiles without pronouns' and 'connect with people who aren't offended by everything'. Despite this all being very predictable stuff, the app has been getting a lot of attention for three reasons: 1) the ads are unintentionally hilarious, 2) it was co-founded by former Trump administration officials and Ryann McEnany, the sister of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is the app's spokesperson; 3) creepy Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, who has been called 'the most important person in Silicon Valley', has invested $1.5m into the project." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/04/want-to-date-a-hot-rightwinger-sick-of-all-that-woke-nonsense-ive-just-the-app-for-you #BrandTechRightStuffApp [Wikipedia] #PleaPronouns #IRLPersonalityInternetRyannMcEnany #IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany
Context #WebsiteTheRightStuff
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Archived on 17 July 2022 at 7:45pm [URL redacted]
@MiriamPulst [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #woke HT. @russJackson [URL redacted]
#IRLScholarRuthWodak "Far-right populist parties thrive whenever there is a crisis. They either construct or exaggerate a crisis or instrumentalize existing crises. They create unreal scenarios of threat and danger, and then they position themselves as the only party and the only politicians who can save 'us' from this crisis and danger. In this way, they first create fear and then hope. This is an interdependent pattern. Which is, of course, not new, which has existed for many, many centuries; but they are very clever at employing this pattern." https://www.populismstudies.org/prof-ruth-wodak-i-am-very-worried-about-the-future-of-europe/ #PhenomnPopulism #TheoryPoliticsOfFearInstrumentalisingCrisis #MetaphorWeaponisation
Context #AdvocacyBEEuropeanCenterForPopulismStudiesECPSSelcukGultasli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzVPpNdEjI&t=18s #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateXenophobia #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #OrgClassifPPATFreiheitlicheParteiOsterreichsFPOJorgHaider [Wikipedia] #1989_ #PhenomnImmigrationEconomicMigrant #2015_ #ToponymAfghanistan #ToponymEastMiddleIraq #ToponymEastMiddleIran #ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymAfrica_ #ToponymAfricaEastSomalia #ToponymAfricaNorthSudan #PowerControlExclusion #PoliticsTechnocracy
Supplementary #AdvocacyNLClingendaelInstituteMarkElchardus "The causes of the contemporary wave of populist successes? These can be largely explained by declinism, the feeling, shared by many, that their society is in decline, that many of the valued things are being lost or even wilfully destroyed. Many people hold the 'political establishment' responsible for the supposed decline, and therefore become susceptible for populism. Using the example of the inaugural speeches of American presidents, this article also illustrates how declinism is concretely used to argue in favour of the main populist propositions." https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2017/3/declinism-and-populism/ #TheoryDeclinism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
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Archived on 15 May 2022 at 3:45pm [URL redacted]
@PamelaSarna [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [31]: @JackPosobiec #Marxist push #Intersectionality & #CulturalHegemony in the guise of #Woke, tear up the status quo so when the WEF #Transhumanist & #Technocrats cross the lines no one will challenge them [URL redacted]
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Archived on 19 July 2021 at 2:00pm [URL redacted]
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Archived on 16 August 2020 at 5:15pm [URL redacted]
@BeckyFabri [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #wokeness nothing changed.. elites (‘progressive, democrats, billionaires maybe) rule.. #Woke ps: special thanks @tabletmag [URL redacted]
#PoliticsCapitalism #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocial #MagazineUSPuck #CaricaturistBernhardGillam #1883_TheProtectorsOfOurIndustries [US Library of Congress] #TauntRobberBaronIndustrialist #PhenomnRevolutionIndustrial #BrandDotdashMeredithThoughtCoRobertMcNamara "The men who were called robber barons were often portrayed in a positive light, as 'self-made men' who had helped build the nation and in the process created many jobs for American workers. However, the public mood turned against them in the late 19th century. Criticism from newspapers and social critics began to find an audience. And American workers began to organize in great numbers as the labor movement accelerated. " https://www.thoughtco.com/robber-baron-definition-1773342 #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #MetaphorPeriodizationGildedAge [Wikipedia]
Context #IRLHistoricalFigureCyrusField, #IRLHistoricalFigureJayGould, #IRLHistoricalFigureCorneliusVanderbilt, and #IRLHistoricalFigureRussellSage
Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvardJenniferStave SXSW 2025 "Our AI-Driven World: A Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNxhNKEcjA&t=238s https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP152914 #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardBusinessSchoolKarimLakhani [Wikipedia] #IRLEntrepreneurShikharGhosh [Wikipedia] #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvard [Instagram] https://d3.harvard.edu/about-us/ #PhenomnCulturalFormSpeculativeFiction [Wikipedia] #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #PoliticsTechnocracy #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction versus #PowerControlExclusion #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia [Wikipedia] #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #PhenomnProtestFigureLuddite [Wikipedia] #TheoryAccelerationism ? #MetaphorTransformationOssification [dictionary]
#TheoryTechnologicalSingularity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M&t=368s #MagazineWiredKevinKelly: http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=872 #2007_ #NarrativeUtopianismTechnologicalInternetOfThings #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism
#IRLCuratorJudithBenhamou "These animated creatures romp around in a small park without colliding, and periodically eject from their rear ends photographs showing the spectators who are looking at them. 'In future, sculptures will inevitably come to be living objects,' Beeple argues. But why mix artists and tech billionaires here? 'Because in both cases we look at the world through their lens.' By the opening of the fair, nine of the ten human-headed dogs had already been sold, at [USD] 100,000 dollars each." https://judithbenhamou.com/art-basel-miami-beach-a-sublime-joan-mitchell-a-coral-reef-robot-dogs-with-billionaires-heads-and-the-great-comeback-of-enthusiasm/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kIs2A0dMo #IRLArtistPabloPicasso #IRLArtistAndyWarhol #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandTechMetaMarkZuckerberg #MagazineUSARTnewsDanielCassady "The installation, Regular Animals by Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), is part satire, part dystopia, part slapstick theater. In it, a pen of robot dogs (or is it pigs?) have been fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Bezos, and Beeple himself. They wander, they twitch, they clash--and then, at intervals likely engineered for maximum dramatic tension, they tip backward and eject a printed image from their backsides." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-pooping-robot-dogs-at-art-basel-miami-beach-1234765375/ #IRLArtistMikeWinkelmannAKABeeple [Wikipedia] #2025_RegularAnimals
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Archived on 22 March 2020 at 9:30pm [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: For the #woke folk, #Remainers & open immigration advocates like @Angelmerke & @UKLabour. Some people of differing ethnic origins integrate, value British customs, traditions, history and culture. Do not ignore them withyour #agitprop. @spikedonline @HJS_Org @NickFerrariLBC [URL redacted]
"BREXITERS are NOT xenophobes or racists but have constantly to fend off assertions by bitter Remainers. Our raison d'être is to be able to rule ourselves, our fishing grounds and our democracy with representatives who can easily be booted out. The EU project is staffed by unelecteds, is unaudited and is a bureaucratic nightmare of 28 nations with almost as many languages, controlled from within the Twin Towers of Brussels and Strasbourg. We reject open immigration and the influx of a culture so alien and destructive to our own. Skilled guys a credit to their origins and our great And sovereign country AND KEEPING US ALIVE!! Juxtaposed ONLY because a point was being made Unwanted MUSLIM GANG SENTENCED TO 169 YEARS FOR RAPING A 12 YEAR OLD VULNERABLE ENGLISH SCHOOLGIRL IN HALIFAX A disgrace to their origins and their faith, Yabki Allah يبكي الله" #OtheringCaricatureBrexitBrexiteer #OtheringHateXenophobia #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #OtheringCaricatureBrexitRemainer #CatchcryFreedomAutonomy #LiteralFoodProductionFishing #MetaphorVersusUsThem #OrgEU #MetaphorDemocracySovereign #PoliticsBureaucracy #PoliticsTechnocracy #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestBrussels #ToponymEuropeFranceStrasbourg #PhenomnImmigration #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim ? #ConspiracyTheory_CabalGroomingGang #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestHalifax #PoliticsNationalismBritish
Supplementary i.e. British appropriation of US #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute ?
Addendum presumably intended to create outrage through evoking a #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen narrative. #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot
The "our great And sovereign country" characterisation (and #PhenomnPolarisation #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych ) reminds me of #CaricaturistTomGauld's #2015_OurBlessedHomeland [tweet]
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