The New Society

Inspired by the ideas of deregulated and technologically advanced freedom cities advocated by Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, among others, Donald Trump proposed during his 2023 presidential campaign that 10 such cities be created on federally owned lands.

In the western states and Alaska, for example, large areas are federally owned and administered by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service. It would be easy to start here.

Such cities could become hubs of industry and technological progress, comparable to the ambitious projects of earlier times such as the transcontinental railroad of the 1860s and the great interstate highway system of the 1950s.

"These Freedom Cities will reopen the American Frontier, rekindle the American imagination and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people - all hardworking families - a second chance at home ownership and indeed the American Dream," Trump declared, calling it a quantum leap.

When the quantum leap is still waiting to be set in motion, it is because the Trump administration is currently fully occupied with the alternative to the domestic deregulated freedom cities. Namely, deregulated freedom zones created abroad and controlled by American investors.

In other words, an incipient realization of Yarvin's dream of breaking up the nation-states into small self-governing territories, owned and controlled by capitalist corporations, and Andreessen's dream of splitting up the states and doubling, tripling, or quadrupling their numbers.

It is therefore no coincidence that these six proposals are at the top of the list of the most spectacular and shocking proposals that Trump has made in the first two months of his presidency.

1. American takeover of Canada.
2. American takeover of the Gaza Strip.
3. American takeover of the Panama Canal.
4. American takeover of Greenland.
5. American takeover of the Ukrainian mineral wealth.
6. American takeover of the Ukrainian nuclear power plants and the Ukrainian energy sector.

The intention is not to occupy the areas with soldiers, one would prefer to avoid that, but after the takeover to hand them over to American companies who, in the spirit of the times, can manage and develop them using advanced American innovation and technology.

We're talking about modern business, not old fashioned conquest, no, no.

How it should be approached in Canada's case may not be immediately easy to see, but if Canada becomes the USA's 51st state, a lot of deregulation will naturally follow, which the large groups will be able to exploit.

In the case of Gaza, however, it is easy enough. When the United States has assumed an "ownership position", as Trump calls it, and the Palestinian population has been moved to Egypt, Jordan, Sudan or Somalia, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, himself a construction magnate, has already published plans ready.

Once the area has been developed (once the mines, ruins and corpses have been removed), a consortium will transform the Gaza Strip into an eastern Mediterranean riviera with marinas, luxury hotels and gambling casinos.

The Panama Canal is also easy enough. Here, a consortium of the American investment group Blackrock has already bought the ports of Balboa and Cristobal at each end of the canal for 23 billion dollars, and when the entire canal becomes an American "ownership position", the consortium will have a free hand and will no longer have to worry about demands and regulations from the Panamanian state and legislators.

Whether Greenland with its mineral glories, uranium, gold and oil will be easy to take over, has yet to be demonstrated. But if the now strict environmental regulations are lifted, then the mining consortia Amaroq Minerals, Critical Metals and Greenland Resources probably already know very well where to dig and drill profitably.

That the Americans take the annexation of Greenland seriously is shown not only by Don Junior's recent charm drive with the distribution of MAGA hats and 100-dollar bills in Nuuk and the subsequent muscle offensive with Mr. and Mrs Vance's arrival at Thule accompanied by the Security Adviser and the Minister of Energy.

But the choice of the USA's new ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, also shows the seriousness. Not only has Howery, whom both himself and Trump have entrusted to the social media, been chosen with a particular view to the diplomatic negotiations on the takeover of Greenland. He is also a co-founder of and former CFO of Thiel's and Elon Musk's PayPal a prominent member of the PayPal mafia!

Sending Howery as a negotiator is like sending Tom Hagen; even the Danes must understand that Trump means business. If not, Mette Frederiksen can expect a horse's head in bed.

The takeover of the Ukrainian glories started as a deterrence agenda from President Zelensky. Since the main rare earth mines were right on the front line, the Ukrainian president cunningly suggested to President Trump that the Americans take them over, which would stop the Russian advance.

Good idea, Trump said, we'll take all your minerals, come to Washington and sign the paper. And that's probably how it ends, albeit after a lot of screaming and yelling.

But that did not prevent Zelenskiy from repeating the fad. Since Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizjzja NP, was right on the front line, well, almost on the Russian side, he suggested to President Trump that the Americans take over the nuclear power plant, which would stop the Russian advance.

Good idea, Trump said, "American ownership of those power plants will be the best protection of the infrastructure," and the U.S. can be "very helpful in running those power plants with its power and utility expertise," so we'll just take all your nuclear power plants and your power supply.
However, Zelenskiy has protested, so expect more screaming and yelling before it can be implemented.

In other words, Ukraine is ready to be split up, and thus ready to become the area that Google founder Larry Page wanted set aside for capitalist experimentation.



The task has actually been underway since Zelenskij met with BlackRock's owner, Larry Fink, in 2022 and hired the asset management giant to provide reconstruction capital to Ukraine. At the same time, Ukraine's giant debt was restructured through a large billion loan from the investment bank Rothschild & Co, which is financially intertwined with BlackRock. Ukraine's creditors, including BlackRock, had demanded quick installments on their loans, and with the loan from Rothschild, Ukraine could now meet the previous investors' demands through the transfer of ownership shares to privatized public companies and other resources.

In order to make itself attractive to investors, as Zelenskij said, a so-called shock therapy was carried out at the same time, removing restrictive regulations and reducing worker protections and workers' rights.

Among the companies that were rewarded with shares was Danish Rockwool, which had earned itself through a donation of DKK 280 million. DKK to the Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. However, other Danish construction companies have also signed up for the task, the government has allocated DKK 1 billion in loan guarantees, and a very special chapter is the Danish investments in the Ukrainian arms industry. With deep involvement from Danish arms companies, politicians and officials, these investments are so much at the forefront that in the EU there is talk of "the Danish model."

And if you thought that Zelensky was just a war president with an abuse and a demanding Churchill role, you have been horribly mistaken.

In any case, I was surprised when I suddenly heard Zelenskij mentioned in a video with Salim Ismail, former head of Yahoo's farm of promising signature geeks and rich after selling a few startups to Google. Ismail is a specialist in the decentralization that "distributes decision-making power, resources and control away from a central authority to a more distributed network." Yessir!

Ismail is also the head of OpenEXo, a community that brings together "leaders in exponential thinking" and "focuses on the acceleration of exponential growth and transformation through the use of disruptive technologies and innovative methods," and here he says that Zelenskij has been a member for years. Yes, not only that, Ismail says that the two are in regular contact, because Zelensky is a pioneer in the field.

Not without pride, Ismail adds that it is because Zelensky has been working on decentralization for years that Ukraine has withstood the effects of the Russian bombings and missile attacks with surprising success.

So now we know that Zelensky – in addition to what else he is – is also an innovative, exponential and disruptive thinker in full accordance with the most advanced thoughts of the time, and we also understand why Ukraine is a good place to start for the great decentralization experiment.

Trump is a new Hitler, it has been said again and again. Even JD Vance has made the claim earlier in his career. Wasn't the storming of Congress perhaps a fascist coup attempt by Trump's stormtroopers similar to Hitler's coup attempt in Munich in 1923? And when during Trump's inauguration tribute in the Capital One Arena you could see Elon Musk unleashing on the stage, the accusation of fascism naturally got extra wind in the sails.

Whether it is fascism, you have to decide for yourself, the term is broad, but here is what I think. We begin with a historical refresher.

If we go back to the original, Mussolini's fascism from the 1920s, Israel is the closest thing that resembles it today. Racist with an ethnic superhuman ideology, nationalist and expansionist, militaristic with an extreme readiness for violence and a fanatical mission, a powerful and authoritarian leader and massive popular support for the suppression of the tribal enemy. Yes, indeed Israel's genocidal and UN-condemned campaign of conquest in Palestine brings to mind most of all Mussolini's League of Nations-condemned genocidal campaign in Ethiopia.

In the case of Israel, the fascist genealogy is also in place. From the right-wing Reform Zionism and the Likud party, which has been in power in Israel for three decades, a straight line goes back to the Polish Menachim Begin terrorist organization Irgun in the 1930s and from there to the militant Jewish youth organization Betar founded in Riga in the 1920s by the uncompromising Jewish activist and writer Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Betar trained with Mussolini's black shirts in Italy and dressed himself in black shirts.

Of course, Hitler's Nazism also qualifies completely as fascism. It is possible that there is a small group of crazy Nazi revanchists among the now many supporters of German Alternative für Deutschland. But if you want the real thing, you have to go to Ukraine today, where the neo-Nazi, revanchist and violence-ready grandchildren of the fighters in Hitler's SS-Galicia today march with torches in honor of the genocidal Stepan Bandera and with Nazi insignia and tattoos make up the steel in Kiev's elite units Asov and Kraken.

No, no, the vast majority of Ukrainians are obviously not fascists. They are exactly like us. But it doesn't take that many fascists before they take up a lot of space.

In 1932, a fascist party based on the Italian model, the Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista, was founded in Portugal, albeit with blue shirts. In 1933, this national-syndicalist movement seized power in the country. But it was still too socially challenging, so the following year the dictator Antonio Salazar dissolved the movement in favor of the National Union, an anti-socialist, conservative and corporatist party. The syndicalist Portuguese fascism was thus transformed in a flash into an anti-socialist, conservative and bourgeois military dictatorship, and is THAT now the same as fascism?



Something similar happened in General Franco's Spain after the victory of the military dictatorship over the left-wing government in 1939. The dictator did retain the useful fascist Phalanx, but it was put in tight harness in an authoritarian, conservative-Catholic and middle-class regime that kept left-wing 'troublemakers' down with a heavy hand, long prison terms and worse.

In Greece in 1967, the colonels overthrew the left-wing government in a coup and installed an anti-socialist and conservative military dictatorship. The same thing happened in 1973 in Chile with General Pinochet at the helm. As far as I know, there were no fascist movements behind these coups, as there had been in Italy and Portugal, but broad sections of the citizenry in both countries – and the Americans, of course – welcomed the coups, and the new regimes followed up their victory with killing and terror, imprisonment and torture of political opponents for such long periods that we were not afraid to speak of fascism at the time.

Not even if, as in Portugal, it was primarily an anti-socialist and conservative bourgeois dictatorship, and after all we have had many of them, from Mannerheim's Finland to Piłsudski's Poland, Horthy's Hungary, King Boris III's Bulgaria to Antonescu's Romania.

So here's the problem. If you call all authoritarian, conservative and anti-socialist regimes that do not shy away from censorship and police violence fascist, the term loses its specific meaning and quickly becomes just a slur used against right-wing regimes.

If we compare today's USA with the historical models from the last section, I think it is completely out of the blue to label the American working population and middle class as fascist or just proto-fascist.

Even though ordinary Americans can often be both nationalist, right-wing, religious and racist. You don't become a fascist either simply because you are condemned by Antifa.

And, no, the run on Congress was not a fascist coup attempt, not even a run. As the unedited videos show, this is a fabricated hoax. The protesters came to the city with food parcels, not with guns, as coup plotters would have done; even the crazy militiamen had left the guns at home. In addition, there were far too many undercover FBI agents with red MAGA hats in the vanguard of the demonstration.

Some troublemakers broke into the House of Representatives and a crooked chump in a buffalo hat sat in Nancy Pelosi's chair, sure, but the unedited videotapes from inside Congress, released after heavy pressure a long time later, show that it was all very peaceful.

Of course, it should not be hidden that there were deaths. According to my AI there were five dead. "One person was shot by Capitol Police, another died of an overdose, and three people – including an officer – died of natural causes."

What about Donald Trump himself? You have to admit that with his endless and self-absorbed tirades, brutal manner, demonstrative masculinity, dangerous impulsiveness and infinite vanity, he does not even slightly resemble Mussolini.

With Hitler, Donald Trump also shares the VOICE, which captures the hopes of an entire population group, and a creative writer would hardly have much difficulty in putting together a story where Trump, like Hitler, uses the divide and rule method to control the factions in his herd. Yes, perhaps exactly a representation where MAGA plays the role of the brown shirts and the tech people the role of SS with a corresponding expectation of a coming 'night of the long knives'.

It just doesn't ring true with Donald Trump as Hitler to my ears. He somehow lacks the German Fører's fanaticism and mission, which il Duce also had, and which true fascism requires.

This becomes more than clear if you compare the lengthy program statements in Hitler's Mein Kampf with just the first lines of Trump's autobiographical 'The Art of the Deal':

”Jeg gør det ikke for pengene. Jeg har rigeligt, meget mere end jeg nogensinde får brug for. Jeg gør det for at gøre det. Handler er min kunstform. Andre mennesker maler smukt på lærred eller skriver vidunderlig poesi. Jeg kan lide at lave handler, helst store handler. Det er sådan, jeg opnår mine kicks... Du kan ikke være kreativ eller iværksætter, hvis du har for meget struktur. Jeg foretrækker at komme på arbejde hver dag og bare se, hvad der udvikler sig.”

Jeg tror såmænd, at denne selvbeskrivelse er sand, også selv om det ikke er hele sandheden.

Som han har gjort siden barndommen med en krævende og fordømmende far, angler Trump også efter anerkendelse, og i hans verden måles ens værd på pengetankens milliarder.

Og hævn for manglende anerkendelse fra Amerikas overklasse vil han selvfølgelig også have, hvad der skaber hans næsten organiske forbindelse til MAGA.

Men man kan ikke være en ustruktureret fascist, der bare venter at se, hvad dagen vil bringe.

Næppe heller kan man være en fascistisk fredsforkæmper og krigsmodstander, som jeg virkelig tror, at Trump grundlæggende er, og som han til sine allieredes skræk allerede viste under sit første præsidentskab med sin højst uortodokse og uventede fredsrejse til Nordkorea, med hvem USA i et trekvart århundrede havde været i en uafsluttet krig.

Og nu har han så åbenbart besluttet at teste sin art of the deal ved at slutte fred med Rusland i den amerikansk-europæiske proxykrig i Ukraine, som han til NATO’s og de europæiske krigsmageres store rædsel tilmed forstår og forklarer på samme måde som professorerne Jeffrey Sachs og John Mearsheimer. Det ligner faktisk den ægte vare.

Is the last chapter's claim about Trump's basic opposition to war not belied by his undiminished will to war against Iran? For example, with the provocative assassination of Iranian General Soleimani, and most recently his airstrikes against Iran's ally Yemen, which is one of the few countries actively defending Gaza? Or the bombings of Iran that he is currently threatening if the Iranians reject his dictates?

Yes, of course you could say that. But perhaps this inconsistency just shows that Trump is contractually obligated by his donors to safeguard Israel's interests. Including the destruction of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and as an experienced businessman who has tried to be the little one before, he understands when his contract partners hold the strongest cards and the most billions.

It is thus hardly without reason that Trump - just like last time - has populated his administration with neoconservatives and Zionists. Like, for example, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has said that Israel has no choice but the complete extermination of Hamas; national security adviser Mike Waltz, who leaked the Yemen operation to a neoconservative media outlet; the ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who says that according to the Bible only Israel has a right to the Holy Land; and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, who even suggested that the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem be torn down and replaced by the Jews' third temple in order to signal to the Savior that he could now come.

Taught by the bad experiences of his first term in office with neoconservative hardcore types like John Bolton as security adviser and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, who opposed him from the outset and in turn stabbed him in the back, Trump would probably have liked to have chosen differently.

Had he had a free hand, an optimist would probably like to think that Trump would have chosen differently, and would rather have included more unconventional rebels like Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy, Junior.

But now he at least got them, and saw Elon and JD, who, according to the leak - Signalgate - were against the attack in Yemen and apparently even got into an argument with Waltz. Then you have to see how long they last; it is already rumored that Elon Musk's days in the White House are soon numbered.

But as I said in the introduction, you have to assess and decide for yourself, and as you can hear, I have decided that Trump cannot be characterized as either Hitler or a fascist.

This absolutely does NOT mean that the world need not fear Donald Trump's presidency, quite the contrary. It shows, for example, the monster tariffs of the last few days with all desirable clarity.

Trump represents a genuine upheaval in American politics of unfathomable scope and with unpredictable consequences. Also unpredictable for Trump himself. With his overly simple solutions, Trump is not the sorcerer, he is the sorcerer's apprentice, if you know your Disney. Whether the situation is chaotic or just turbulent, I should not be able to decide, but nothing seems impossible anymore.


Yes, should it finally be - impulsive, stupid, vain and impressionable as he is - it would also not be impossible that Trump, if he got into the right hands, could also play the role of Leader, just as Zelensky in the right hands learned to play the role of Churchill.


In that case, it is also not completely impossible that Donald Trump, as the Führer of the time, can divide and rule by promising each of his factions what they most want:

For the neoconservatives - a continued and in principle unending war with the Russians, at least until Russia collapses and allows itself to be split up.
To the tech billionaires - a full and unfettered blast of robot and AI development and the division of the US and the world into small privately owned enclaves where large corporations can reign freely with unfettered use of Silicon Valley's latest technologies.

To the MAGA people - a stop to all the scientific elite's nonsense about global warming, which gives headaches and is offensive to ordinary people, who can see with their own eyes that it is still cold in winter.

That it should succeed is not impossible either. Which will be a disaster for little Denmark, as the results will inevitably reach us and also affect us and our future, as the tariffs are now doing.

But that does not prevent the war-happy patriots in the Social Democrats, the anarcho-capitalist confirmands in the Liberal Alliance, and the dear village crazies in the Danish Democrats already rejoicing. Sigh!

Of course, the fact that Trump is not Hitler and the MAGA people, most of whom are not fascist brownshirts, does not rule out that the Silicon Valley gang and the PayPal mafia could play the role of the SS in Trump's neo-Wagnerian reality show. It could well appear that the tech billionaires have so far won power in the state.

If this is the case, it is fortunate that, like Trump, they are anti-war. Elon Musk thus argued for the restoration of relations with Russia long before he became the president's go-to man, criticizing the proxy war for its high human toll. After he has moved in as a handyman in the White House, he has also come up several times to argue with the neoconservative warmongers in Trump's new administration, who insist on war with Iran.

Perhaps the difference between the parties is that Elon Musk and his South African friends in the PayPal mafia, Peter Theil and David Sacks, are not, like the leading American neoconservatives, the children of immigrants from the former Russian Tsarist Empire, and therefore do not have family traumas to avenge and horses to jump in Ukraine and Russia.

But with a white childhood in the racist apartheid rule of South Africa, can't they have a horse to jump in the now democratic Republic of South Africa?

Well, maybe they could. In any case, Musk has led a fierce campaign on his media X against the South African government, which he accuses of "genocide" against the white farmers.

The white farmers, a small minority of 18 percent, now only own 72 percent of the private agricultural land, and therefore naturally fear that the very moderate land reforms that South Africa adopted in 2024 will make further inroads into their ancient wealth.

If the reforms come to fruition. Elon Musk has got Trump on board, and as one of his first presidential actions in 2025, Trump has stopped all US aid to South Africa in response to the land reforms.

Here, of course, we can't help but remember from chapter 5 that Elon's beloved grandfather was accused of being a Nazi in Canada and became a hardcore apartheid supporter when he moved to South Africa.

Just as the neoconservatives as children have heard Grandma's bedtime story over and over again about the pogroms in Kishinev and the flight from Kiev, little Elon may have heard Grandpa's bedtime story about the black terrorists in the Communist ANC, against whom the brave Nazi Eugène Terre'Blanche on horseback with a sling and a gun took up the fight together with his Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging with its real Nazi ideology, real swastika and real Nazi salute.

In fact, the struggle was at its height when Elon left South Africa as a 17-year-old in 1989, and as recently as just 10 years ago, the Afrikaner resistance movement still had 5,000 members who healed when they met for communal singing, beer and sausage.

Psychologists say that childhood experiences stick and help color a person's future, which could explain Musk's vendetta against the ANC government. It would also explain why Musk threw himself into the German election campaign on the side of the right-wing AFD with usual energy and much to everyone's surprise. Furthermore, it could explain why he also supported the right-wing English Reform UK and why he started a social media campaign against English Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom he accused of "two-tier policing".

Note: Here Musk is talking about selective law enforcement, where the right-wing opposition is treated completely differently by the police and courts than the liberals in power. As for example, when Christine Lagarde, now head of the European Central Bank, convicted of corruption, is acquitted, while Marie le Pen, right-wing leader and likely winner of the next presidential election in France, gets four years in prison and five years of exclusion from politics for a Morten Messerschmidt offense in the EU Parliament.

But now psychologists say as much. Perhaps childhood plays a role, but more likely Elon Musk's harsh attack on South Africa is because the government would not enter into a contract with Musk's Starlink for internet in South Africa. Or at least not on Musk's terms of freedom from government regulation and control. So it is probably just a matter of a tough negotiation according to Trump's manual.

And when Trump himself gave his support so willingly, it is of course primarily due to the fact that South Africa is one of the 5 countries that founded BRICS, which now poses a challenge to the US's dollar-based world domination. Since it is also the weakest and most vulnerable of the five countries, Trump has decided to launch his declared counterattack against the BRICS right here.

The fact that Elon Musk went into the field for the right-wing German and British parties does not have to be due to the legacy of a white childhood in Apartheid South Africa either. It may simply be due to the gullible man's love for the truth. It is, as you know, one of the great paradoxes of our time, which JD Vance has also commented on, that the nationalist right-wing lies far less about important things like war and peace than the so-called progressive and democratic wing, which lies almost constantly.

And just to get THIS straight, Elon Musk did NOT heal on stage during Trump's inauguration tribute at Capital One Arena. Musk simply illustrated with his quick arm movement the launch to Mars that his spaceship will soon be able to make, thanks to the victory of Donald Trump. Since the journey to Mars is Elon Musk's childhood dream and basic life motive, he naturally had to burst into unrestrained joy and excitement. I don't understand how not everyone could see it.

And now that we're talking about space travel, I might just have to say that I have been taught by good FB friends that the documentary about the Nazis on the back of the Moon, which scared me in the first chapter, is not a documentary after all but a fictional sci-fi feature film, Iron Sky, from 2012.

It's Finnish, so considering Finland's winning song in the European Melody Grand Prix in 2006, maybe I should have guessed myself.
So there are no Nazis on the Moon. And it won't be on Mars either when Elon Musk and his spaceship land. Of course it ruins the title of the series here, but, never mind, the truth is more important.

Well, of course it's obvious that I've got a soft spot for Elon. But for writers to have a soft spot for their main character is no more unusual than for the phenomenon to have a name. Psychologists call it transference.

But transference or not, anyone who has seen Elon's childish enthusiasm unfold over and over again will be able to realize that Elon is a good person and cannot be a Nazi. For example, like the other day when Elon danced around Wisconsin with a big cheese as a hat. No Nazi would dance around in public with a large cheese as a hat.

Or, for example, in the video where Elon excitedly tells a group of young cap boys that, thanks to Silicon Valley, they will soon live in a world of inexhaustible wealth for everyone, where everyone will be able to have everything they could possibly want. And the video leaves not the slightest doubt that Elon himself is completely convinced of this dream of paradise.

For those who know their literature, it brings back memories of Pallet Alone in the World in the candy store. Elon is first and foremost a child, a prodigy, yes, but first and foremost a child. Here I quite agree with Elon's daughter, Vivian, when she says that her father is a child in the guise of a man.

But the Hitler Youth were children too, weren't they?

Yes, yes, but I stand my ground. Elon is a good and gullible child and not a Nazi, basta!
But the tech billionaires can't all be good kids, can they?

No, they probably can't.

During my admittedly rather incomplete search, I've actually only come across one PayPal mafia extolling the virtues of war. He also talks about fascism and is also worth including for that reason. It's going to be a bit long, but never mind, we'll just cut it in the middle. First a description.

Eric Weinstein, since 2013 CEO of the venture capital firm Thiel Capital, founded by Peter Thiel, is educated in mathematics and economics and has a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Harvard. He must therefore of course be extremely intelligent.

How intelligent is evident from Weinstein's physico-mathematical theory of 'Geometric Unity', which aims to unite the two basic physical theories, the general theory of relativity and the standard model of particle physics based on quantum mechanics, and in the process offer a new explanation for dark energy and dark matter.

According to Weinstein, this can be done by embedding the four-dimensional spacetime in a 14-dimensional structure, which he calls "observable" because it can be understood as an "observational universe," where the extra dimensions arise naturally through mathematical expansions of the four dimensions we know from general relativity.

Yes, of course the suspicion must arise. And it is not denied when Weinstein is also strongly concerned with the subject of 'neurodiversity and the challenges of the education system', where he talks about how schools fail the highly gifted and neurodiverse children, and where he has used as an example the lack of teacher understanding that he himself and his son have suffered from. Yes, Eric is of course one of our signature geeks.

However, the incomprehension and lack of understanding that Eric encountered at school continued when he presented his mathematical theory to the physicists in a lecture at Oxford University in 2013. Rejected by the physics community, he therefore chose instead to use his mathematical skills as CEO of Thiel Capital, because, as he said, "if we can model the universe with mathematics, why can't we model our financial systems with the same rigor?"

So that investment business and money-making would not become too boring for the restless man, Weinstein also decided to jump out as an "independent thinker" and become a podcaster and a very itinerant and engaged speaker.

You can find lots of videos with Eric Weinstein on YouTube, also several by Lex Fridman, (my AI recommends episode #134, where Lex and Eric discuss topics such as genius, madness, and Weinstein's 'Geometric Unity'). But I've only had the courage to watch a single video, The Great Nap, which is also quite interesting.

Weinstein's Great Lur refers to post-war Europe, which has enjoyed 80 long years of peace. But peace is unfortunately also associated with "emasculation, castration and devitalization," he says.

Weinstein here works the trance wave into his leaping lecture, but we can't get it all here.
"Violence is not a bad thing because, among other things, it leads to creativity," says Weinstein, adding: "Radical creativity, innovation and vitality are inseparable from violence, radical creativity is an extreme act of violence." And to prove his point, Weinstein quotes Harry Lime from The Third Man:

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had war, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did it produce? The cow!"

Worse is that the peace has not only stopped the neutered Europeans, it has also allowed a supranational elite (the globalists, the WEF, the Davos people, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, you know) to trap the hobbits in a bureaucratic network of joint solutions, which Weinstein calls The Whole of Society approach. Such as collective programs for public health, sustainable development and defence. This has led to a kind of collective conformity, where individuals are kept down and the most transformative ideas are never allowed to flourish. Weinstein has also given it a name: Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC).

Weinstein describes how this conformity is instilled imperceptibly to the hobbits. It is promoted through unidirectional narratives in the media, growing censorship and increasing surveillance through social media and the Internet, so that there is someone behind the curtain who knows more about us than we do. Where everything is controlled from the top by an authoritarian machine independent of democracy, and where everyone, without knowing it, is reduced to pawns in the hybrid war of the elite, in which the woke culture war is an important part. Weinstein calls it soft fascism.

Soft fascism is a new variant, and if you want to expand the term, it actually makes good sense when you think about the growing centralization, bureaucratization and top management in the EU. Where the European Community (EC) was tightened into the European Union (EU) and where the not elected but selected Commission of Commissioners has assumed more and more power and no longer tolerates deviations from the shared narratives of diversity and inclusion, Russia and Israel.

The few countries that deviated from the playbook of the Russian war or the mantra of inclusion are hit with sanctions. The few politicians who might threaten the Community in democratic elections are driven off the track with lawfare and selective prosecution. Those citizens looking for a story other than the official narrative encounter a wall of growing censorship and condemnation, which Elon Musk has called an incipient sign of fascism.

And the brave who manage to maintain their humanity and publicly stand up for the Palestinians' defense struggle risk condemnation, dismissal, fines or even prison terms.

And if this may be an exaggeration, it is not much. All the horror stories that have been heard for many years about democracy in the EU become more and more true every year.

In the West, we have lived through a historically long era of peace that has lulled us to sleep, killed vitality and innovation, emasculated us and brought physical science to a standstill, but with Donald Trump’s election victory, that era is over, says Eric Weinstein.

Babylon has fallen, he declares, quoting from Bob Dylan’s song ‘All along the Watchtower’, where two horsemen appear in the last line:
”Two riders were approaching/The wind began to howl.”

We can read the continuation in the Book of Isaiah, which is Dylan’s model. “Babylon has fallen,” declare the horsemen, whom Weinstein illustrates with a picture of JD Vance and Elon Musk on horseback.

But why are JD and Elon depicted as messengers of the message of freedom?

Well, as an explanation, Weinstein refers to a shocking meeting between officials in Joe Biden’s White House and Marc Andreessen, a tech billionaire with such a long record as an innovator, tech founder and tech investor that he has been inducted into the exclusive Internet Hall of Fame.
Andreessen himself says elsewhere, “it was one of the most alarming meetings I’ve ever been in.”

When the officials reviewed their plans for the AI ​​field, Andreessen understood that it was basically about full government control. “There will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. They said don’t even start entrepreneurial startups – there’s just no way they can succeed – there’s no way we’re going to allow that to happen.” So Weinstein’s Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) again.

This was of course shocking to the AI ​​investor, which is why long-time Democratic donor Andreessen immediately swerved to Donald Trump, who promised to give AI research a free hand.

In some way that I didn’t quite get, Weinstein extrapolates in his lecture the aforementioned restriction of AI research to apply to all of physical science. According to Weinstein, a collective consensus restricts this science to focus on a few selected theories. Only those – here, first and foremost, the theory of quantum gravity – can receive attention and awards, funding and grants, researchers and PhD students; the rest, like Weinstein’s own theory, must die in the desert in complete obscurity in accordance with DISC.

The fact that the physics community has thrown its love for quantum gravity is catastrophic, says Weinstein. It has contributed to the fact that physics has stalled since the 1970s without any Nobel Prize-worthy breakthroughs. The theory is so wrong, says Weinstein, that one can safely – and perhaps with advantage – invite Chinese and North Korean students to the United States to study physics.

But fortunately, the long historical era of peace and slumber and quantum gravity is now finally over. It ended in January 2025, says Weinstein. That is, with Trump’s inauguration, the fall of Babylon, and therefore with Vance and Musk as the horsemen of Isaiah and Dylan.

This is good, says Weinstein, but there is a price to pay. “We are back to vitality, and I am sorry to say that we will almost certainly soon be back to kinetic war. The Big Nap is now over.”

Kinetic war is of course not the best these days. Weinstein says: “In November ’52, we learned that the Earth is our womb, not our home.”
[With the test of America’s first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands, presumably, a superbomb created by the signature nerd Edward Teller, one of the brilliant “Hungarian Martians” mentioned in Chapter 7.]

We can therefore follow Weinstein when he surprisingly continues: “We can’t stay here because we have to leave. We can’t all share a single atmosphere safely.”

Weinstein then quotes again from Dylan’s song: “There must be some way out of here,” but here’s the problem.

“Right now we’re four light years from the nearest star. There’s no way to get to the speed of light or even close. We’re stranded in our solar system with only two habitable rocks that aren’t Earth [the Moon and Mars], and that’s with a lot of work.”

Weinstein does not despair, however: “If an open human future can be restored, and I believe it can, there is a way out, and that is physics. We have to go beyond Einstein, because we simply cannot get to the stars if we have a speed limit set at C [the speed of light]… Western science has to show the way.”

But that should also be possible with Trump’s election victory, the hoped-for liberation of physics from quantum gravity, and the unleashing of Silicon Valley’s innovative genius, where Elon Musk is already getting the rocket ships ready for first Mars and then the great journey of human civilization into space.

“I think the end of physics [the ruling] is almost in sight. It could bring us wonders. It could give us the ability to traverse the cosmos. This could be the best time,” says Weinstein, but also warns that there is a narrow window that we must understand how to exploit:

“We have a short period of vitality before the wars will certainly begin. If we choose to revitalize, we must use it well. And our greatest challenges lie ahead. But I think we can do it. And I think the future will be among the stars. That would be truly glorious.”

Whether Weinstein is just an intelligence that has torn up its tent pegs and is about to fly away, or he is a visionary messenger of the future, is difficult to determine for a normal Dane with half his IQ. But Weinstein ends by sharing an ethnic experience and a piece of good advice that is worth taking in any case.

“We Jews have a meal that is not really a meal. It is a survival manual. And that is the Pesach Seder,” Weinstein says, continuing:

“And I ask you this year to find, if you are not Jewish, find a Jew and get invited to a Pesach Seder. It describes how we survive. And the way we do that is that at some point you have to realize that you cannot stay here, and you have to leave, even if you feel like there is no way out. You may feel like you are pushed against the Red Sea. But if you do not know what time it is, you will certainly perish.”

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Since I had to look it up myself, there may be others who do not know what Weinstein is talking about here.

While Christians celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead at Easter, Jews celebrate Pesach at roughly the same time, which means "to skip over" and refers to the fact that Yahweh's 10th Egyptian plague killed all firstborn boys in Egypt, but skipped over the Jewish firstborn. The Jews had been told by their god that if they smeared the blood of a spotless lamb on the doorpost, the archangel would pass by their door on his killing spree. Such a gesture is of course a reason to celebrate, which happens at the Jewish Passover meal.

But since it was clear that Pharaoh would not be happy about having his firstborn son and crown prince killed, the mass killing was also a signal that it was time for the Jews to flee Egypt. 'Well, the Red Sea is blocking our way,' said those who were less firm in their faith, so they died. The Pesach Seder should also remind us of this.

“If you’re going to leave, don’t wait for the bread to rise,” as Weinstein says somewhere. A dearly bought diaspora experience that the Jewish community must always carry with them, he says. And useful now that the Earth has become too small or too dangerous to house humanity.

No one would suspect Marc Andreessen of flying away. Partly because he is too round, but also smiling; partly because he weighs too much as a venture capitalist and major investor in Silicon Valley with a stake in most things; and partly because he has his feet planted too firmly in the new American reality that is opening up with Donald Trump.

“He was a curious and self-taught person who taught himself BASIC programming at the age of nine in order to be able to make his own computer games,” we read.

Okay, we're in.

It's no surprise that Andreessen has such a long tech CV that we will suffice with mentioning, as examples, that he was the first to foresee that software and web services would move from local servers to the cloud and the first to offer this service from his company Loudcloud.

And then his masterpiece, of course, which earned him the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which is considered the Nobel Prize of engineering.

In the first generation of the Internet, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and HTML standards were launched so that you could communicate with the Internet, but that was only for geeks. It was therefore a leap forward when Marc Andreessen and his partner Eric Bina in the second generation of the Internet developed the first graphical browser, Mosaic, which could integrate text and graphics in the same window and thus made the Internet generally accessible and extremely popular.

“Several million people suddenly discovered that the Internet might be better than sex,” writes Wikipedia.

It is clear that Marc Andreessen’s luck was done with this.

We have met him before. He was the one who, like Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel, argued for the creation of free cities without government regulation and governed as tech corporations, and the one who predicted that the world’s states would multiply as special economic zones run by private corporations with a high degree of autonomy. It was also he who, in line with these ideas, invested in the private freedom zone Próspera on the Honduran island of Roatán with Peter Thiel and subsequently sued the Honduran government for billions for breach of contract. And he who, again with Thiel, recently revealed plans to build a freedom city in Greenland with its own nuclear reactor.

Finally, it was he who had the shocking meeting in Biden's White House that sent Marc Weinstein off on a tangent.

The meeting with Donald Trump went better when Andreessen had moved his donor millions from the Democrats to the Republicans. Because as Trump told him: "I don't know much about technology, but I don't need to, because you know a lot. You should go out and build tech companies. American tech companies should win."

Yessir!

Up until Trump's inauguration, Andreessen therefore spent, as he himself says, half of his time in Mar-el-Lago advising the future president on Silicon Valley, crypto, artificial intelligence and, not least, on who he, as a tech billionaire, would recommend for the many positions to be filled in Trump's administration.

Andreessen also acted as a special advisor for the creation of Elon Musk's DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which was supposed to clean up the bureaucracy and in the process, preferably fire as many federal employees as possible. Andreessen called himself an "unpaid volunteer" in DOGE, because even though he is not a member of the PayPal mafia, he is definitely Elon's 'pal'.

It was investor money from Andreessen's investment fund Andreessen Horowitz that made it possible for Musk to buy Twitter and rename the social media to X, and Andreessen has also bought up a large number of SpaceX shares, many of which were acquired at a particularly favorable price in a sweet deal that others could not get. But it's far too hard to explain.

All of this is, of course, just repetition and banality at this point in the series. So when we bring in Marc Andreessen, there's a special reason. He's something as rare as a tech billionaire with both a mission and a real manifesto.

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All tech billionaires are visionaries and have visions and dreams, like Elon Musk with his trip to Mars, but Marc Andreessen has more than that. He has both a creed and a mission manifesto, The Techno-Optimism Manifesto.

The manifesto can be found on the website of Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world's largest venture capital firms with over 45 billion dollars under management, also commonly known - remember we are in the world of nerds - under the name a16z. Crack the code yourself.

The manifesto is very long, 4939 words. It is also very elegantly written as one-liners bursting with lessons and quotes from the history of philosophy and the great thinkers of liberal economics, and with a logical rhythm and mesmerizing power of persuasion that draws the reader in.

You are obviously up against a lot of IQ points, and only a contrarian person who has little knowledge himself will be able to resist the suction. A confirmation student doesn't stand a chance.

If you don't trust my summary, which, although it will necessarily be long with the quotes, must of course be greatly shortened; or if you think it is biased, you can read the entire manifesto for yourself here https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto

Like Ayn Rand, Curtis Yarvin and Eric Weinstein, Andreessen starts from the first line of his manifesto by lamenting the decline of the times.

“We are lied to.

We are told that technology is taking our jobs, reducing our wages, increasing inequality, threatening our health, destroying the environment, degrading our society, corrupting our children, weakening our humanity, threatening our future, and is always on the verge of destroying everything.

We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful of technology.

We are told to be pessimistic.

The myth of Prometheus—in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator—haunts our nightmares.

We are told to reject our birthright—our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

We are told to be miserable about the future.”

Andreessen also tells us, but only at the end, who the enemy is who is lying and robbing us of our natural optimism.
“We have enemies.

Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.

Our current society has been subjected to a massive demoralization campaign for six decades – against technology and against life – under various names such as ‘existential risk’, ‘sustainability’, ‘ESG’, ‘Global Goals’, ‘social responsibility’, ‘stakeholder capitalism’, ‘the precautionary principle’, ‘trust and security’, ‘tech ethics’, ‘risk management’, ‘de-growth’, ‘limits to growth’.

This demoralization campaign is based on bad ideas from the past – zombie ideas, many derived from communism, disastrous then and now – that have refused to die.

Our enemy is stagnation.

Our enemy is anti-merit, anti-ambition, anti-striving, anti-achievement, anti-greatness.”

A long list of enemies is then listed, until Andreessen pinpoints the real enemy of progress, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Last Man, who avoids all risk, passion, ambition and self-realization in favor of security and comfort. In the manifesto, Andreessen copies a long passage from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, from which we snatch a small piece:

“Alas! The time will come when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas! The time will come for the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself...

‘What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star? - asks the last man and blinks.
The earth has become small, and on it the last man jumps, who does everything small. His species is indelible like the flea; the last man alive the longest...”

“Our enemy is…THAT,” Andreessen writes emphatically. “We strive to be…Not THAT.”

The alternative to Nietzsche's Last Man is of course Nietzsche's Übermensch, who is able to overcome himself and through his willpower, intelligence and creativity can create his own meaning and his own values. The one, but strong, manages to live in freedom from the crowd and the embrace, demands and conventions of the social environment.

This is how signature nerds from childhood, for understandable reasons, want to see themselves. Misunderstood loners, held down by and victims of a bunch of less intelligent bullies.

Was Nietzsche Asperger's? We know that he was very gifted, was accepted early into an elite school, and became a professor at the university at the age of 24. We also know that he was socially impossible, isolated himself and was lonely and unhappy, overfocused intensely on specific subjects, and also had other symptoms compatible with autism syndrome. The researchers have therefore not ruled out the possibility, although the favorite explanation is probably syphilis and insanity. But they do not of course rule out each other.,

It cannot therefore be ruled out that Friedrich would have been spared much suffering if he had had a Commodore64 as a child.
But the world would also have missed a God-given writer who shook and turned the world with his shocking declaration that God was dead, and thus secured employment for thousands of university literati and philosophers.

It is therefore hardly a coincidence that Nietzsche is given such a prominent place in Andreessen's manifesto. Nor is it a coincidence that Andreessen in his manifesto designates the signature nerd's foremost characteristic, intelligence, as the driving force of the world. He writes:

"We believe that intelligence is the ultimate driving force for progress. Intelligence makes everything better. Intelligent people and intelligent societies outperform less intelligent ones on virtually every parameter that we can measure. Intelligence is humanity's birthright; we should expand it as completely and spread it as far as we possibly can."

And if human intelligence is good, artificial intelligence and artificial superintelligence are possibly even better (read for yourself), and if they can be combined, nothing is impossible. Andreessen writes:

“We believe that intelligence is in an upward spiral – first, as more smart people around the world are recruited into the technocapital machine; second, as humans form symbiotic relationships with machines for new cybernetic systems such as corporations and networks; third, as artificial intelligence increases the capabilities of our machines and ourselves. We believe that we are ready for an intelligence take-off that will expand our capabilities to unimaginable heights.”

The technocapital machine that Andreessen mentions here is the union of 1. intelligence, 2. technology, and 3. the free market, which he sees as the primary source of growth and thus the foundation for the development of civilization, a development that is limitless if not hindered by zombies and “the eternal howling of communists and Luddites.”

This is where Andreessen’s technooptimism comes into full play, but it is mostly familiar and banal neoliberal stuff. Far more interesting is the credo he includes in the manifesto:

“We believe in the love story of technology and the romance of industry. The eros that is in the car, the electric light and the skyscraper. In the microchip, the neural network, the rocket, the split atom.

We believe in adventure. To set out on the Hero’s Journey, to rebel against the status quo, to chart uncharted territory, to defeat dragons and bring the spoils home to our society. To paraphrase a manifesto from another time and place: ‘Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that does not have an aggressive character. Technology must be a violent attack on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow to man.’”

The manifesto “from another time and place,” which anticipates Eric Weinstein’s thoughts from the last chapter about a necessary connection between creativity and aggression, about technological innovation as violence, was written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinettei and first published in 1909 in the French newspaper Le Figaro.

It became the basis for Futurism, a revolutionary artistic and literary movement of the early twentieth century that celebrated the future, technology, the beauty of the speed of machines, masculinity and strength, and the modern lifestyle, and rejected outdated classical culture.

“Art can in fact be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice,” Marinetti declared, glorifying violence and war as a form of “purification” and a necessity for creating a new and modern world. The Futurist Manifesto described war as “the only purifier of the world,” and violence was seen as a way to break with the traditions of the past and make room for the innovation of the future.

Marinetti, who himself became a fascist, and other Futurists supported Mussolini’s fascism as a shortcut to their vision of a modern and dynamic Italy. And with its aesthetics and ideology integrated into fascist art and architecture, Futurism became part of the cultural propaganda that supported fascism.

It is thus interesting to see how the ends meet in Marc Andreessen's manifesto.

Although he looks like a futurist, Marc Andreessen is of course no Mussolini fascist. But perhaps in his Techno-Optimistic Manifesto we see the birth of a whole new species for our fascist zoo: Technofascism.