If you want new economic ideas, talk with ordinary citizen. Talk with poor people. Listen to the dispossessed and disenfranchised. They have heaps of great ideas if anyone would bother to listen. Robert Kennedy, when he was running for President in 1968, went and sat on the front porch with poor people who lived in Appalachia and listened to their concerns. No politician (nor academic for that matter) has had the courage to do that since. The deep state murders leaders who listen to the people. But that's what we need -- to listen to the experiences of the dispossessed and to permanently dismantle the deep state.
I agree with you generally, but you don't go far enough. The problem didn't begin with "technocrats." Technocrats are the natural result of democracy without faith in God. The leaders support democracy but know their will is the will of the people. That usurpation was always possible, but at least earlier in our country's history, Christianity was a check on what rulers could do. Now the politicians believe they have nobody to answer to but themselves. "Without God, all things are permitted." Dostoyevsky(?) Atheism leads to liberalism leads to totalitarianism.
I wish, hope and pray that parents would research what is being injected into their children as much as they research what type of stroller to purchase/what books to buy/what diapers are best/which preschool is best. Researching these things gets you labeled "a smart parent/consumer" whereas researching what is IN vaccines given to your children beginning on DAY 1, earns you the label "conspiracy theorist".
Academic studies are generally worthless. So are universities. So are the so-called 'think tanks' run by elites. The Real World is where the rubber meets the road. Get out of the lab, and into the street. Learn through the school of hard knocks. Make the world your laboratory.
My wish would be that people would wake up to their own power and stop handing it over to institutions that enslave them. Once we regain our collective power, creative solutions to all these problems would just flow and then the future wouldn’t look so grim.
To sum up your article - Beware any 'public health' technocrats claiming they have your best interests at heart. They are no smarter than your average trucker and considerably less humane. I know who I'd prefer to have a beer with.
In answer to the question that you posed, If I had one wish for the world that I knew would be awarded currently it would be that the WEF be declared an international terrorist organisation, with any involvement, with no statute of limitations, with this group grounds for prosecution for treason.
An ACTUAL recognition of the rights of mankind (as opposed to "persons" = corporations and animate STATE property) - within the limits of human scale. Bill Gates (and the rest of us) can own private property, that is truly private - but not the state of Montana, or all of the world's arable farmland. You can maintain absolute right to ownership over your own house and car without arbitrary regulations, interference and perpetual taxation... But you don't get to claim those rights for all of the properties being bought up by a Blackrock, Blackstone, the Vanguard group, etc.. You want to own a fleet of vehicles, you're clearly within the realm of commerce, and subject to regulation by the States, or Congress... But the rest of us (the people) need to have our common law rights recognized and honored.
Competition and merit - opposed by the already wealthy who want gatekeeping to maintain power. The issue isn’t their money (wealth grows). It’s their power.
We can do several things to help. Incremental progress which will have immediate results and is more successful than “revolutions” which tend to be destructive.
1 - Tax university endowments and limit private foundations to 15 years. Rich people are allowed to grow wealth via foundations which are really just used for private equity and weird social experiments that fail.
2 - Competition - school choice, less bureaucracy, limit the size and influence of any institution, limit the size of government, loosen financial regulations to
3 - A return the some sort of backed money and a balanced budget. Government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The highest taxed states have some of the worst inequality, low literacy, and lowest graduation rates. When government gets more power and influence they will always serve the already wealthy
4 - lower taxes which frees up capital to promote wide innovation and opportunity
5 - eliminate the requirement to use any liability free product. Period.
6 - outlaw social credit scores based on medical choices, investment preferences
7 - encourage innovations by getting rid of Obama’s patent crushing courts that allow big business to legally steal innovations
8 - improve anti trust. Break up any financial institution that controls more than 5% of US capital, or processes more than 5% of transactions. Or has market capital greater than 2% of the exchange on which its listed (break up black rock, the big banks, big tech, big pharma).
9 - change public board rules to eliminate cronyism and reduce proxy voting
10 - give every American $10,000 for healthcare to split between health insurance and HSA accounts they control. Only require catastrophic insurance. Get government out of directing actual care.
technocrats are using technology to to promote the science of social engineering, where they intend to engineer society and the people in society for their own, proprietary economic interest. And this is not really what America bargained for.
The United Nations has been the torchbearer for technocracy since it’s inception. Sounds so glorious. Unless you’ve read Frankenstein.
Feb 20, 2022·edited Feb 20, 2022Liked by Toby Rogers
"What we desperately need is a revolution to smash the technocracy into dust."
Yes, but... we need a revolution that doesn't end like the Jacobins in the French revolution. Most revolutions end poorly, when the enraged mob turns on itself. The best way to smash the technocracy (in the USA) is to simply enforce the Constitution AS WRITTEN. Stop allowing the federal government to inject itself into every aspect of our lives. Sever the special ties between government and industry (subsidies, special projects, indemnity and protections, etc.). Then, allow 1,000,000 lawsuits to bloom. You'll quickly find that the technocracy will fall into line when they become impoverished if they don't. Freedom (of speech, of thought, of action, etc.) provides a strong check and balance on bad behavior.
Love your work, Toby! This may be kind of out there but could furious Wall Street money grubbing types be the new covid revolutionaries who end up blowing the lid off this Plandemic as they short Big Pharma stock? This must-see Maria Zee interview with former BlackRock employee Edward Dowd is enlightening and suggests this may be the case:
Dowd exposes how Wall Street is now shorting Moderna and Pfizer stock as it plummets (there is a media blackout on this topic, of course). Dowd argues we're in a third bubble (after the housing and dot-com bubbles) and calls it the "U.S. Government & Federal Reserve Bubble." He argues that international captured governments and central banks are imploding and that the Plandemic is a way to control and morph this economic implosion into international control via global digital vaccine passports and new forms of stealth, tyrannical international tax collection.
He cites insurance company reports, unsustainable global debt, upcoming defaults on debt, funeral industry reports, Pharma pushback, and captured agencies. Dowd anticipates that after this next few months of extremely dystopian events, he is hopeful that the people will win and we will go more local/decentralized and uncouple from global, centralized control mechanisms.
LOVE these two lines: "If one cares about the fact that the world is on the wrong track, the remedy is to set 8 billion people free, let them use their voice, get out of their way, and let them create from their own intuitive sense of wonder and purpose. The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency." YES!
Justin Trudeau is Big Pharma when he is heavily invested in Pfizer & Moderna! Of course he's sending in the storm troopers to crush the Truckers who could severely devalue his investment! Since he is a grad of Klaus Schwab's WEF young leader's group, what Schwab tells him to do he does. Gavin Newsom is in the same lock step!!!
If you want new economic ideas, talk with ordinary citizen. Talk with poor people. Listen to the dispossessed and disenfranchised. They have heaps of great ideas if anyone would bother to listen. Robert Kennedy, when he was running for President in 1968, went and sat on the front porch with poor people who lived in Appalachia and listened to their concerns. No politician (nor academic for that matter) has had the courage to do that since. The deep state murders leaders who listen to the people. But that's what we need -- to listen to the experiences of the dispossessed and to permanently dismantle the deep state.
“The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency.”
Could not agree more. Humans governed by “experts” or “technocrats” is a recipe for failure. Everywhere and always.
I agree with you generally, but you don't go far enough. The problem didn't begin with "technocrats." Technocrats are the natural result of democracy without faith in God. The leaders support democracy but know their will is the will of the people. That usurpation was always possible, but at least earlier in our country's history, Christianity was a check on what rulers could do. Now the politicians believe they have nobody to answer to but themselves. "Without God, all things are permitted." Dostoyevsky(?) Atheism leads to liberalism leads to totalitarianism.
I wish, hope and pray that parents would research what is being injected into their children as much as they research what type of stroller to purchase/what books to buy/what diapers are best/which preschool is best. Researching these things gets you labeled "a smart parent/consumer" whereas researching what is IN vaccines given to your children beginning on DAY 1, earns you the label "conspiracy theorist".
Academic studies are generally worthless. So are universities. So are the so-called 'think tanks' run by elites. The Real World is where the rubber meets the road. Get out of the lab, and into the street. Learn through the school of hard knocks. Make the world your laboratory.
My wish would be that people would wake up to their own power and stop handing it over to institutions that enslave them. Once we regain our collective power, creative solutions to all these problems would just flow and then the future wouldn’t look so grim.
To sum up your article - Beware any 'public health' technocrats claiming they have your best interests at heart. They are no smarter than your average trucker and considerably less humane. I know who I'd prefer to have a beer with.
In answer to the question that you posed, If I had one wish for the world that I knew would be awarded currently it would be that the WEF be declared an international terrorist organisation, with any involvement, with no statute of limitations, with this group grounds for prosecution for treason.
An ACTUAL recognition of the rights of mankind (as opposed to "persons" = corporations and animate STATE property) - within the limits of human scale. Bill Gates (and the rest of us) can own private property, that is truly private - but not the state of Montana, or all of the world's arable farmland. You can maintain absolute right to ownership over your own house and car without arbitrary regulations, interference and perpetual taxation... But you don't get to claim those rights for all of the properties being bought up by a Blackrock, Blackstone, the Vanguard group, etc.. You want to own a fleet of vehicles, you're clearly within the realm of commerce, and subject to regulation by the States, or Congress... But the rest of us (the people) need to have our common law rights recognized and honored.
Competition and merit - opposed by the already wealthy who want gatekeeping to maintain power. The issue isn’t their money (wealth grows). It’s their power.
We can do several things to help. Incremental progress which will have immediate results and is more successful than “revolutions” which tend to be destructive.
1 - Tax university endowments and limit private foundations to 15 years. Rich people are allowed to grow wealth via foundations which are really just used for private equity and weird social experiments that fail.
2 - Competition - school choice, less bureaucracy, limit the size and influence of any institution, limit the size of government, loosen financial regulations to
3 - A return the some sort of backed money and a balanced budget. Government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The highest taxed states have some of the worst inequality, low literacy, and lowest graduation rates. When government gets more power and influence they will always serve the already wealthy
4 - lower taxes which frees up capital to promote wide innovation and opportunity
5 - eliminate the requirement to use any liability free product. Period.
6 - outlaw social credit scores based on medical choices, investment preferences
7 - encourage innovations by getting rid of Obama’s patent crushing courts that allow big business to legally steal innovations
8 - improve anti trust. Break up any financial institution that controls more than 5% of US capital, or processes more than 5% of transactions. Or has market capital greater than 2% of the exchange on which its listed (break up black rock, the big banks, big tech, big pharma).
9 - change public board rules to eliminate cronyism and reduce proxy voting
10 - give every American $10,000 for healthcare to split between health insurance and HSA accounts they control. Only require catastrophic insurance. Get government out of directing actual care.
11 - restrict non compete agreements
"What Can Replace Free Markets? Groups Pledge $41 Million to Find Out."
With a headline like that, you know that every statement which follows is going to be complete BS.
On what planet does this writer think that "free markets" are in fact operating? Certainly not on planet earth.
technocrats are using technology to to promote the science of social engineering, where they intend to engineer society and the people in society for their own, proprietary economic interest. And this is not really what America bargained for.
The United Nations has been the torchbearer for technocracy since it’s inception. Sounds so glorious. Unless you’ve read Frankenstein.
"What we desperately need is a revolution to smash the technocracy into dust."
Yes, but... we need a revolution that doesn't end like the Jacobins in the French revolution. Most revolutions end poorly, when the enraged mob turns on itself. The best way to smash the technocracy (in the USA) is to simply enforce the Constitution AS WRITTEN. Stop allowing the federal government to inject itself into every aspect of our lives. Sever the special ties between government and industry (subsidies, special projects, indemnity and protections, etc.). Then, allow 1,000,000 lawsuits to bloom. You'll quickly find that the technocracy will fall into line when they become impoverished if they don't. Freedom (of speech, of thought, of action, etc.) provides a strong check and balance on bad behavior.
Love your work, Toby! This may be kind of out there but could furious Wall Street money grubbing types be the new covid revolutionaries who end up blowing the lid off this Plandemic as they short Big Pharma stock? This must-see Maria Zee interview with former BlackRock employee Edward Dowd is enlightening and suggests this may be the case:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JMIhGJxNyw4e/
Dowd exposes how Wall Street is now shorting Moderna and Pfizer stock as it plummets (there is a media blackout on this topic, of course). Dowd argues we're in a third bubble (after the housing and dot-com bubbles) and calls it the "U.S. Government & Federal Reserve Bubble." He argues that international captured governments and central banks are imploding and that the Plandemic is a way to control and morph this economic implosion into international control via global digital vaccine passports and new forms of stealth, tyrannical international tax collection.
He cites insurance company reports, unsustainable global debt, upcoming defaults on debt, funeral industry reports, Pharma pushback, and captured agencies. Dowd anticipates that after this next few months of extremely dystopian events, he is hopeful that the people will win and we will go more local/decentralized and uncouple from global, centralized control mechanisms.
LOVE these two lines: "If one cares about the fact that the world is on the wrong track, the remedy is to set 8 billion people free, let them use their voice, get out of their way, and let them create from their own intuitive sense of wonder and purpose. The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency." YES!
Justin Trudeau is Big Pharma when he is heavily invested in Pfizer & Moderna! Of course he's sending in the storm troopers to crush the Truckers who could severely devalue his investment! Since he is a grad of Klaus Schwab's WEF young leader's group, what Schwab tells him to do he does. Gavin Newsom is in the same lock step!!!