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Joanie Higgs's avatar

Thank you for this extremely well-written, sane, analysis of where things stand! I've maddeningly swayed from redpill to blackpill and back 'round again and again, depending on whose substack I've most recently read. But your sober distillation of the whole picture resonates with my best instincts. Sharing this for sure.

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Damien Murray's avatar

Hi Stephen, thankyou for writing this, I read broadly and it is a relief to find someone reflecting my thoughts at present. Your view here is actually moderate and supported by the large arguments as well as many smaller nuanced ones. I’m surprised, and a bit dismayed, that so many are finding extreme positions to spruik, it’s as though Trump simply re-establishing the US as a nation state among nation states isn’t even an option, people seem to need to apply further agendas such as transhumanism or digital gulag by different means as a definite but hidden agenda. I think he probably thinks technology is inevitable but I don’t think he’s working duplicitously behind the scenes to enact such an agenda (though undoubtedly people will screech about Ellison/AI/mrna and tell me to wake up… it’s a strange & ill-conceived development but I get the sense it’s t what it appears to be).

I get frustrated with commentators that see a mention of an WEF association or a previously held belief then extrapolate it to mean a definite link to some agenda… there is so much of this happening with the result of the charge “controlled opposition” being flung about all over the place. It’s so unhelpful!

I feel you’ve written something that has teeth yet avoids going into speculation. Thankyou!

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