By Wayne Allensworth
Whatever one thinks about the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel, prudence suggests keeping an open mind about what transpired. Perhaps Cole Thomas Allen, a man frustrated by Trump’s Epstein connections, planned and carried out the unlikely attack alone. In his manifesto, after all, he described Trump as a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor”, among other things.
The manifesto he sent to his family shortly before the attack is not “anti-Christian” as some reports maintained. The would-be assassin referred to his Christian beliefs. But plenty of commentators, left and right, have questions about the incident. And recall that former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, who resigned in protest over the Iran war, has stated that he and others at the Department of Homeland Security wanted a thorough investigation of the assassination attempts on Trump at Butler, Pennsylvania, and Trump’s golf course in Palm Beach, Florida, but the FBI and the DHS leadership quashed them. Why? Kent has hinted at the possibility of a dark conspiracy in this latest assassination attempt as well. I don’t think the only options are a hoax or an undetected “lone wolf” attempt in any of those cases. Sometimes, powerful people with evil intent just let things happen to capitalize on them. Characteristically for Trump — but completely off the wall for anyone else — he used the attack at the Hilton to stump for the necessity, citing security concerns, of completing his White House ballroom.
The powers-that-be in this country are prone to lies, fabrications,“false flags,” and manipulation of the populace. And Trump might be pleased he has another distraction from the Epstein Files and the growing global crisis thanks to his Zionist-inspired war.
Looking at that war more deeply, one can see that it is partly aimed at securing a techno-totalitarian hold on the country — rule by a Technopriesthood administering a totalitarian surveillance state that codes and traces our every move.
I wrote earlier that the war’s oligarch supporters envisioned the conflict, on the one hand, as securing the expansion of Greater Israel and Israel’s dominance in the Middle East, and, on the other, as an attack on BRICS, the chief rival to Washington-based globalism’s hegemony. What’s more, the high-tech totalitarians in Silicon Valley have plans for us in a post-war world, in which AI and deindustrialization will leave much of the population as a vast post-modern proletariat. Their transhumanist, digital gulag will track us, poke us, prod us, “vaccinate” us, enumerate us, and control us via digital currency and computer tracking of our whereabouts and activities. We will live in a comprehensive surveillance state. At any time, we could be blocked from our bank accounts, from securing a job or from travelling outside the techno-gulag’s “smart cities.”
We are well on the road to that dismal state of affairs. Here’s an entry-level tidbit that should chill us all to the bone: Representative Thomas Massie (R-K) has pledged to fight a bill that would install a computer-monitored kill switch on all automobiles. The ostensible reason is to prevent drunk driving fatalities, but the effect will be another step on the road to full monitoring and control of Americans’ mobility. It would be, as Massie says, an Orwellian limitation on the free mobility of Americans. As with all such steps, it comes wrapped in language about security and safety.
Elon Musk has not been shy about telling us what the future holds for us. I pray enough people can read between the lines to envision just what a nightmare Musk’s projected future would be. In an April 16 X post, The Grand Panjandrum of Tech World told us not to worry about losing our jobs to AI and robotics:
“Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI,” wrote Musk. Oh, and don’t worry about inflation in a virtual economy with fiat money “printed” by the Federal Reserve: “AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.”
Ponder that for a moment. Undoubtedly, a cut rate Internet connection is in there somewhere, so we can build our own Matrix fantasy worlds. It’s a future of aimless, mind-numbing complacency, only increasing the alienation of an already atomized population, one that has experienced “deaths of despair” in a world without any framework to lend meaning and purpose to our lives. As far as monitoring us — all for our own good, to be sure — recall that Musk likes the idea of implanting micro-chips in our skulls.
CIA and Israel connected Palantir, digitized Antichrist Peter Thiel’s techno-behemoth that is providing the powers-that-be with the architecture of a surveillance state, has come out in the open, announcing the role it sees for a techno-oligarchy in guiding our future from on high as a supra-governmental fount of wisdom. A 22-point program summarizes Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic. Karp’s manifesto declares that for the United States to prevail in the new century, “soft power” requires “hard power,” and that hard power will be built on software meant to, unsurprisingly, enhance a highly militarized version of “national security.” The program further envisions universal national service, downplays the role of government bureaucracy (in favor, apparently, of a technocracy), asks for “more grace” and “forgiveness” for those in public life — Epstein-linked Thiel and Trump, most likely — pledges a new “deterrence” doctrine based on AI, and states that “no other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values” more than the United States. If we didn’t get his earlier point about “grace,” Karp again tells us that “ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service.”
Taken at face value, some of Karp’s points seem reasonable. Not all cultures are created equal, and that there is a certain intolerance of religious belief in our society, for instance. Karp rightly says that managerial bureaucrats should not be our “priests.” But what Karp and Thiel seem to have in mind is a technocratic priesthood that would oversee us all, one engaged in a bizarre digital twilight struggle with all that is not “progressive,” in the sense of technologically controlled and advanced. Whatever is “conservative” in their scary version of sci-fi neoconservatism, like opposing “woke” quotas, seems to be drenched in a frightening Nietzschean vision of a Superman class. Militarism of an AI computerized sort is pushed at every turn by the new techno-priesthood. At times, the techno-totalitarians have embraced “libertarian” ideas, meaning, I take it, not to restrict or impede the genius from his vision.
The technopriests don’t seem to care much for representative democracy. Granted, mass democracy all too easily becomes an Idiocracy. But the technopriests don’t want to leave the proles unsupervised. Part of the degradation of our liberty is one of scale, of being ruled by a vast Leviathan that is too big and complex to submit to constitutional limits. But opposing limits — including one of scale — are what the technototalitarians are all about. Their AI-driven empire would dominate the world, all in the name of a messianic drive toward “progress.” Conservatives have always been skeptical about “progress,” but Americans accept it all too readily. Genuine conservativism is humble, recognizes limits, and does not see itself as a universal salvific faith. Thiel’s and Karp’s salvation is that of the Superman. Again, as with the MAGA right, the Technological Republic is not a real place, a particular people, or an organic culture. It’s an imperial idea that sees America as a platform for its future Utopia.
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb describes what she calls a right-wing Palantir version of the Davos Politburo’s “Great Reset”:
Palantir has already seen its supra-governmental model test driven in Epstein-sponsor Les Wexner’s, and Thiel-backed Vice President JD Vance’s, home state of Ohio. Whitney Webb tells us about it:
The corporate feudalism Webb describes is weirdly reminiscent of the privatized, libertarianism-on-steroids corporate state in 1975’s dystopian film Rollerball. The Corporate Executive Committee rules over a proletariat kept entertained by the violent rollerball game.
Thiel and Karp’s critics are not off entirely base in calling their nightmarish vision “technofascism.” In fact, some on the revolutionary right of the interwar period celebrated technological advances toward a militarized utopia of what scholar Jeffery Herf called “reactionary modernism.” Yet in the vision of the Palantir founders, Americans are not an ethnos or a concrete reality. They are an ideological vehicle for their plans. And it is not the state, but the corporate model that would predominate.
I have advocated removing Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. Vance is a far less impulsive and unpredictable figure, but his associations with Thiel and Silicon Valley, as well as his praise of AI and robotics, raise a question: Are we damned if we do remove Trump and damned if we don’t?
Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood. For thirty-two years, he worked as an analyst and Russia area expert in the US intelligence community.
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