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Jan 12, 2023Liked by Winston Smith

Speaking of the meta-verse and meta-theory too why not check out this new website:

http://instituteofappliedmetatheory.org

And of course there never-ever was a "free"-market.

General Smedley Butler told us so many years ago:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/War_Peace/War_A_Racket_SButler.html

And more recently so does John Perkins in his two books The Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Perkins_John/John_Perkins_page.html

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Jan 12, 2023·edited Jan 12, 2023Liked by Winston Smith

An excellent "think" piece on subject which deserves greater attention, as Western nations queue up to implement the WEF Great Reset and its transhumanist agenda.

These corporatist sociopaths are deadly serious . Unless more of us wake up to this reality, and start pushing back against their nefarious plan, the beautiful real world as we know it will never be experienced by our tech-indoctrinated children and grandchildren.

For anyone interested in appreciating the significance of the Metaverse and the gameification of our lives by tech giants in league with governments, I recommend the meticulously-researched work of Alison McDowell of Wrenchinthegears.

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Jan 12, 2023Liked by Winston Smith

They may be out of touch, but that only encourages them to treats humanity like bugs, ready for squishing. Out of touch or no, they do not have our best interest in mind, and they have amassed too much power for us to simply ignore them.

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Awesome!

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Jan 12, 2023Liked by Winston Smith

Competition is for losers <-- thusly Peter Thiel’s famous mantra goes. A monopoly is the only goal worthy of pursuit 😏

💬 allowing for the ‘undoing’ of monopolies over time

↑↑ Never happens as long as monopolies are allowed to buy out their competition. Which—again—means never. Speedboats get absorbed into freight ships, swimmingly 🤷

PS Zuck comes off as kinda fleshed-out beta version of inferior AI, residing firmly put in uncanny valley.

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Actually it has been bizarre over the last few years seeing the faces of so many of these tech guys and gov wonks and realizing they all look like they came out of the same uncanny mold. Absolutely nothing about them looks 'right' and human sense screams, "DO NOT TRUST!".(unsure of the specifics but the weird eyes and the distorted potato heads stick out to me)

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I quit all social media about 3 years ago, after reading this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37830765-ten-arguments-for-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now

I had not thought of meta forcing its platform as a learning place. God that is disturbing.

Really good piece Winston.

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