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Filmmaker Alex Gibney

When asked about Alex Gibney’s in-progress documentary on himself, Elon Musk replied, “It’s a hit piece.”  Gibney’s reaction to that was, “How would you know?”

The answer is more than apparent on this blog.  Musk has done more than any other person to date to dismantle the burgeoning Censorship/Propaganda Industrial Complex. The very industry Gibney sucks the hind tit of for a living. Look no further than what Gibney did to Julian Assange and Wikileaks when they were at the forefront of restoring transparency and accountability to Big Brother.

When Wikileaks founder Assange exposed the sinister side of American empire in 2010, the national security state came unglued. Perhaps no one more accurately represented the security state (also known as IC “intelligence community”) at that time than Michael Hayden. Between 1998 and 2009 he had served on the three top spy positions on the planet, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Director of the CIA and as the 1st Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. Under his guidance the national security state was formed, including the passage of the Patriot Act and its systematic stripping of our civil rights. Incidentally, he remains atop the Big Brother console to this day as head of the Atlantic Council’s Censorship/Propaganda Industrial Complex. 

Who did Hayden and company call upon when Assange and Wikileaks were awakening the world to the atrocities of the unbridled security state/IC? The documentarian who would give the head of the security state the platform from which to justify the horrendous conduct revealed by Wikileaks, while also viciously assassinating the character of Assange. The same guy who did principal Big Brother propaganda work for the COVID-19 roll out: Alex Gibney. 

Nothing more graphically represented the importance of the 2010 Wikileaks disclosures than the following video. It captures US military personnel gunning down several innocent civilians, including a Reuter’s news agency employee a rescue worker and his two children. See,

The nation was shocked. And Gibney gave it his all to get the masses to cool their jets with his documentary “We Steal Secrets.”  He featured Michael Hayden himself to tell us how to view this very leaked film. Haydn said he could understand how such abuses of imperial power bothers some people but not someone in the know like himself: “You’ve got this scene, some are evidently troubled by the scene – frankly, I’m not.”  Gibney then invites Hayden to explain how Assange put so many more lives at risk than were wiped out in the video, that there really is nothing to see here folks. Clearly, Gibney wholeheartedly agrees with his master as he fails to even once push back on the single person most responsible for the conduct Wikileaks exposed. 

And as is Gibney’s wont (see Big Brother Storyteller), he is so anxious to be the first to get the deep state’s spin released he doesn’t bother to examine any harm that Hayden alleges Assange’s releases will certainly do. In the final analysis, no one ever produced a single sliver of evidence that a single hair on a single head was harmed as a result of Wikileaks’ exposes. To the contrary one could easily imagine tens of thousands of lives being saved by the disclosures, by having its intended reform effect on the offenders. 

Thus self-blinded, Gibney sets out to destroy the reputation of Assange. He strings together a chorus of clips from his favorite politicians toeing the CIA/NSA/Hayden line literally calling for Assange to be hung to death or assassinated. 

The film largely consists of Gibney belittling and condemning Assange as a sociopath who might well be entitled to such treatment. In doing so, he also does a number on Chelsea (aka Bradley) Manning who was the military whistleblower who forwarded the leaked material to Wikileaks for publication. Gibney is a proud woke mind virus carrier. Nonetheless, he hypocritically devotes a great deal of time trying to smear Manning with his struggle over gender identity. Gibney ruthlessly paints Manning – a genuine American hero on the order of Daniel Ellsberg – as a psychotic sexual deviant. Gibney does so in order to create the invented picture that Assange took advantage of Manning and set him up to take the rap for the leak while hogging all the glory to himself.  In doing so, Gibney kills two Ellsbergs with one stone.

Through outright sleaze and cheesy propaganda techniques Gibney invents the narrative that Assange baited Manning into releasing the material to Wikileaks. In reality, the New York Times and the Washington Post (the “liberal” fronts for Empire fuckery) turned down approaches from Manning before he turned to Wikileaks. Yet, Gibney’s expert use of the dark arts makes it appear as though if not for Assange’s fraudulent preying upon a weak, perverted mind, Manning never would be in the deep trouble he was by then in (in solitary confinement awaiting trial for Treason and worse before a US military tribunal).  

The same techniques used to assassinate Manning’s character are applied by Gibney in pursuing Assange as prey.  He ruthlessly explores Assange’s private sex life and goes to great length to indict and convict him for the alleged crime of intentionally breaking his condom during sex with more than willing partners (perhaps even sexual predators pursuing Assange). If you are wondering how that might constitute a prosecutable crime, Gibney’s invents the speculation that it would be a crime if Assange happened to knowingly be carrying around the AIDS virus. While the entire premise of Gibney’s prosecution (justification for the Swedish government pursuing Assange) hinged on that one invented possibility, Gibney (and no one else in the 14 years since) never presented a scintilla of evidence such was the actual case. Yet, through master use of the dark arts of cinematographic deception Gibney presents the picture of an AIDs ravaged madman travelling the world seeking to kill through sex.  

With those false premises established, Gibney then virtually lobbies for the criminal punishment of Julian Assange.  He accuses Assange of paranoia for suggesting that the U.S. government has Assange in its sights for the same treatment they were meting out to Chelsea Manning.  Gibney appears to want Assange to take the punishment Manning is taking; all the while calling Assange paranoid for sensing that is exactly the intent of Gibney and his deep state sponsors. 

The utter falsity of Gibney’s “paranoia” claims were more than proven over the next several years as the US ruthlessly pursued Assange through extradition (while its CIA director called for Assange’s assassination).  Completely contrary to the entire premise of Gibney’s invented outrage, Assange would wind up spending more time in confinement than Manning did (without ever being convicted of a single crime). Of course, Gibney helped accomplish this feat by virtue of other state-controlled media parroting Gibney’s deep-state smear for years. 

There is a pattern of Gibney’s over-anxious, impatient attack-dog work on behalf of the deep state.  He did the very same thing concerning the COVID-19 pandemic panic (see Big Brother Storyteller).  A rush to release the definitive government/big pharma COVID 19 narrative, followed by several years of the truth unfolding proving all his major premises to be wrong. He did the same with the Scientologists, tirelessly using his ‘documentary’ on them to lobby for removal of their IRS tax exemption, only for time to tell his invented premises for such draconian measures were fabrications. I have described before the fraud perpetuated and promoted by Larry Wright and Alex Gibney on that subject. (see blog posts between June 6 2017 through June 19 2017 and from July 16 2017 and August 8 2017).

As we shall later see, Gibney did the same with the Russia Hoax. The technique is, when chaos hits be the first to create a “documentary” to “prove” the deep state’s propaganda lines. Make the big lies look like truth through overboard dramatization in the guise of documentary film making. Use the ‘fact’ of the documentary to take designated targets down hard. While the facts begin to arise demonstrating the falsity of your work, dive into the next deep state crisis and rinse and repeat.

To demonstrate the 100% love, devotion and surrender nature of the deep state suck up, consider these facts. If the Manning/Assange leak were as expansive and potentially destructive as Gibney’s film claims, and Gibney is the flag-waving patriot he purports to be, then why did Gibney not investigate how two allegedly mentally ill, sex deviants managed to put the entire free world at risk all on their little lonesomes? That is, how could such alleged supermen as Michael Hayden be capable of such incompetent, treasonous insecurity?  That, Gibney does not investigate. Instead, he only covers deep-state ass. Again, he turns to his master Hayden to explain away the pesky matter of how on earth such a massive breach could occur. Hayden blames reforms imposed in response to the deep state’s colossal incompetence (at best) demonstrated during the events leading to 911. 

Hayden:

“After 9/11 we were accused of not being willing to share information rapidly and facilely enough and we’ve pushed that very far forward. In terms of our focus the default option in a practical sense has been to share it, rather than caging in information and making it more difficult to flow.”

In other words, “any attempt to point out an error on the Intelligence Community will be met with glue meeting rubber. That is, your catching us out on a mistake will result in you being guilty of our next crime.”

Remarkably, not only does Gibney not push back on such haughty arrogance, he lets Hayden shore up alleged CIA infallibility with this:

“When they catch us making a mistake, we admit it. When they have a valid point—even when it’s buried deep below a heap of not-so-valid points—we try to pull it out, brush it off, and address it.”

With that Gibney enters the Orwellian ranks, “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.”

State-controlled media would of course cloyingly go along for the ride as per usual.

And that of course buried any dissent to Gibney’s propaganda work.  But, at the time of its release many credible sources expressed outrage at Gibney’s servile cowardice. 

The Nation had the following to say of “We Steal Secrets”:

“Unfortunately, just as today’s debate is already being diluted by focusing on Snowden’s psychology and motives, We Steal Secrets gets sidetracked by character issues… The debate that the film has stirred up consists mainly of an exchange of invective between Gibney and Assange, in which Gibney and his allies compare the WikiLeaks creator to a cult leader, while Assange and his allies accuse the director of mounting a smear campaign that benefits the US government. The upshot is that we have gotten neither the film nor the debate we need.”

Award winning researcher and journalist Alexa O’Brien wrote:

“What was Gibney relying on for his costly ‘string of pearls’ reportage, beyond his hackneyed entourage of unexamined glory-boats, bearing witness on the silver screen to their privileged punditry—that is, talking about themselves amongst themselves for their own benefit– certainly not the public’s—or future generations?”

“Gibney’s exercise discovers nothing, and reveals nothing. His tabloid motion graphic is a regurgitation of stock footage, unsubstantiated innuendo, and unexamined allegation.”

“What Gibney has done here is not art; it is a cheap trick.”

And veteran war correspondent Chris Hedges wrote the following:

“Alex Gibney’s new film, “We Steal Secrets,” is about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. It dutifully peddles the state’s contention that WikiLeaks is not a legitimate publisher and that Bradley Manning, who allegedly passed half a million classified Pentagon and State Department documents to WikiLeaks, is not a legitimate whistle-blower. It interprets acts of conscience and heroism by Assange and Manning as misguided or criminal. It holds up the powerful—who are responsible for the plethora of war crimes Manning and Assange exposed–as, by comparison, trustworthy and reasonable.”

“The film at many points is a trashy exercise in tabloid journalism. Gibney panders to popular culture’s taste for cheap pop psychology and obsession with sex, salacious gossip and trivia.”

Finally, Hedges recognizes the illness underlying the propaganda techniques employed:

“The vast structural sin Assange and Manning fought is ignored. The primacy of personal piety over justice is the inversion of morality. It is the sickness of our age.”

Remarkably, on this rare occasion when Gibney was held to account for his demonstration of the sickness of our age he petulantly defended his tabloid appetites. Unfortunately for him he protested too much and as much as admitted to the truth of what the Nation, O’Brien and Hedges pointed out:

“Just because someone tries to right a wrong or just because somebody tries to hold powerful people to account, it doesn’t mean that person is above the law.” – Alex Gibney

Under that ‘rationale’, Gibney is free to pursue whistleblowers into their prison cells and beyond.  

Given how Gibney approached whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, what are the odds he’ll take a deep dive into Elon Musk’s sex life?  One thing is certain, Gibney will make the gullible afraid of Mr. Musk, very afraid. 

I have seen up close and personal how deftly Gibney wields the art of cinematography to create realities that do no exist, and to dramatize them to the point of creating revulsion and terror in viewers. For a short lesson on Gibney’s trickery, see what he did to the Scientologists; creating a “guttural, deep emotional fear and terror of something that does not exist”, Going Clear Movie.

Censorship and Propaganda Authorities

Censorship Mind Control as currently practiced by the organs of the Neo Liberal Order is essentially a three-step operation. First, effectively censor dissident voices. Second, if censorship alone cannot silence effective voices then smear them to the point where no one will listen to what they say. Third, which is often run concurrent with 2 and 3, roll out the elite’s chosen narratives as related by authoritative figures; incessantly and everywhere at once. The narrative roll out is all important as it contains the untruths Big Brother wishes to implant in our minds. The “authority” in “authoritative figures” as narrators comes at the privilege of the elite of the Neo Liberal Order; judged by his/her willingness and ability to relay what he or she is told to say and write, and decidedly not by merit. 

For example, the effective author and spokesman for the roll out of the Greatest Hoax of the 21st Century (see Jacob Siegel’s Invasion of the Fact Checkers) was former FBI agent  Clint Watts. That he deserves that sobriquet is not my opinion. It is that of perhaps the most powerful figure in today’s entire Global Intelligence (IC) network, former CIA and NSA head and current director of Censorship Industrial Complex Operations at the Atlantic Council, Michael Hayden.  Watts was the first ‘credentialed’ public promoter of the Russia scare – the crude, but effective return to 1950’ish McCarthyist Red Scare days. Fear all that is “them” (read Russian) as it secretly permeates our precious bodily fluids. Watts was the chosen narrator of the propaganda narrative that we must shut our ears and eyes to any information designated as ‘Russian”.  Of course, the ugly trick was to label anything and everything that didn’t fit the Neo Liberal Order’s dozens of propaganda narratives as “Russian”. Absurd as it was, roughly fifty percent of the U.S. population went along for the ride. The once “progressive” wings of the Mainstream Media (MSM), CNBC/CNN, became literally obsessed with this mind-programming complex front man Watts.  He appeared out of nowhere as the authority on all Russian Hoax matter and was omnipresent in all major government-compliant mainstream media.

What qualified Watts for this job?  Was it that he was part of the failed and discredited pre-911 U.S. government anti-terror apparatus?  Was it his several years of cashing in on the Security Industrial Complex cottage industry that arose after 911 in spite of the fact it was the result of the pre-911 failures of the likes of Watts?  Nothing in his overt, officially listed background would seem to qualify him as a CIA storyteller, least of all on the matter of “Russian Misinformation.” And yet, having been exposed as a rank peddler of the Russia Hoax, Watts just keeps skipping from one high paying propagandist gig after another. Here is the latest, from a recent piece by William A. Jacobson (Founder of the Equal Protection Project) in the NY Post:

In another bad omen, Clint Watts, the FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor who founded the Hamilton 68 dashboard, has been hired by Microsoft to run their disinformation unit during the upcoming election.

If Hamilton 68 isn’t ringing any bells, it was the left-wing think tank notorious for accusing legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots. It pushed the false narrative of massive Russian influence that was heavily relied upon by many mainstream media outlets and possibly even swayed the 2020 election.

And now this same guy is in charge of monitoring disinformation for Microsoft during the next election. What possibly could go wrong? Everything. 

With Google Jigsaw in firm Censorship Industrial Complex control, (see Mike Benz’ Google Jigsaw’s Plan to Vaccinate Your Mind) most traditional channels of communication have been seized by Big Brother leading up to election day 2024.

So, how does a backbencher security hack become an omnipresent front man for the Censorship Industrial complex? While his official biography doesn’t give a clue, his own words do.  According to him, Watts’ “mentor” in the storytelling craft is the man who wrote the official record of the alleged events leading up to 911. Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower covered up so well for the CIA/FBI Pre-911 negligence (or treason?) that according to Watts the head of the FBI (Robert Muller, who was appointed to mop up the severe FBI/CIA post 911 PR damage) instructed supervisors like Watts to “make sure everyone gets one of these books.”  And Watts eagerly complied, saying he bought “boxes” of the book and distributed them to “all my colleagues.”

Think about it – the largest law enforcement/intelligence agency in the world needs an ‘outside’ author to school its members on the most colossal failure of any government agency in world history?  Why?  Perhaps because the primary, glaring criticism of Wright’s book was his justification of the CIA’s withholding of critical intelligence from the FBI (and the FBI’s own serial fumbles) that clearly prevented law enforcement from foiling the well pre-broadcast 911 catastrophe? Wright’s authoritative answer to why the problems was that the CIA and FBI were overworked and underpaid. As we shall see, Wright is an expert at personalizing societal catastrophes, and elevating villains to hero status in order sell rotten New Liberal Order false narratives.

In either event, the cloying cult member like adoration a head of a major counter terrorism department directs toward a ‘citizen’ author is remarkable. That Counter Terrorism head, Watts, reminisced during a 2022 podcast that he “had the great fortune of being his (Wright’s) driver between airports and auditoriums” during his book promotional tour; and this is where his mentor schooled him on becoming a professional storyteller. Said Watts, Wright “provided much needed guidance to me.” 

Coincidentally, during that same podcast Watts and Wright neatly lay the groundwork justification for the CIA and FBI to turn their outward facing powers inward toward American Citizens.  While Middle Eastern terrorists pour over our Southern Border in unprecedented numbers, Wright and Watts seem to concur that intelligence and law enforcement ought instead be going after Trump supporters. According to Watts, it “is a sure thing” that domestic terrorists have “biological weapons…very much on their minds.”  

Referring to Wright’s epic apologia to Anthony Fauci, Pfizer, NIH, and the Biden Administration (the book Plague Year, so chock full of since-discredited big pharma/government propaganda to warrant its own post), Watts and Wright continue to pimp government  COVID-19 myths that were long-since proven phony by the time of the 2022 podcast.

Thus, Wright laments (with Watts agreeing like a bobbing head doll) that what went wrong with the pandemic and what is most crucially wrong with America today is: “What we didn’t have was the trust we needed to have in our government institutions. We just don’t rate on that scale at all.” 

As this blog has detailed, these ‘love, devotion, and surrender’ (to Big Brother) demands were being made just as the Biden administration was unleashing the largest roll back in civil rights in American history. Wright said Americans are just plain backward as compared to “Angolans” and “Latvians” in their unwillingness to put full faith into government agencies, at the very moment those agencies were betraying Americans like never before.

Did Larry mean we should have dropped to our knees and demonstrated cultlike compliance to the NIH/Mainstream media’s anointed Mr. Science? The guy who was so infallible that to question him was to question science itself?  The guy who is now being exposed by documents as the kingpin of perhaps the most harmful and deadly fraud ever perpetrated on the American people; this guy? See, Fauci Kingpin in Massive Cover up. 

Among other things, here is what Fauci sought to cover up: Fauci Cover-up

As we shall see, that is precisely what Big Brother narrator supreme Lawrence Wright means. 

The Problem with Artificial Intelligence

First, all the recent chatter about Artificial Intelligence is primarily this: Wall Street stock pump hype. That machine churns out much of our economic “news” through mainstream media outlets such as Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others.  Since last June when the “AI is upon us” campaign began Wall Street’s biggest have profited in the trillions; all the while economic conditions have deteriorated for all working Americans. The mainstream propaganda arms have been concurrently running a campaign that anyone who complains (read 98% of Americans who are being crippled by inflation) are numbskull country bumpkins (with white supremacist leanings – even those of color) who don’t understand the daily stream of cooked, false economic statistics the Biden administration churns out.  Yes, everyone on Wall Street (including those who ‘cover’ it for the Times, Journal, Bloomberg, etc) know that those statistics are as phony as a three dollar bill without any shadow of a doubt.  They couldn’t do their job if they did not.  Their job being to justify the worst economic disaster in human history.  That is a $34,000,000,000 national debt that is increasing by a trillion dollars every one hundred days. 

So how is AI news stock pump hype? The lie is this, AI is not coming.  AI is here and has been here for decades.  It is called collection, analysis and distribution of data through algorithms.  Why America has never been dumber (and ALL available statistics says that it is) is because for the past twenty-five years it has been educated and conditioned by a data system algorithm that measures truth by quantity, that is, popularity.  Group think has ruled the day for the past two decades through implementation of an artificial intelligence that gives people the highest rated (most popular) item they inquire about.  It doesn’t take much understanding of history to recognize how morally and intellectually destructive this is. In science, governance, business, and technology (to name a few important fields) positive, important breakthroughs and advancement are always and only achieved through individual, creative thought that goes diametrically opposed to group think of the day (whether that day be 10,000 b.c. or 2024). One does not increase one’s intelligence by continually basking in self-affirming feedback.  One advances in intelligence and character by exposing oneself to a wide diversity of information, investigating and continually increasing one’s ability to rationally and morally evaluate it to solve problems.

The first major ‘leap’ in artificial intelligence – between 2008 and the present – was to add  a crippling virus to an already sick infected body.  That is, Big Tech stole all your browsing , email and text information to tailor advertising for you and pummels you with it.  This was a scandal for about 6 months a few years back. But, the constantly imposed, digital neo maniacal distraction machine rapidly diverted Americans’ attention off of doing anything about that. 

We are in the midst of the second major ‘leap’ in AI – that of the imposition of the Censorship Industrial Complex upon our minds. That is the entire subject of this blog since March of 2024.  This is the existential battle for free thought and expression we find ourselves in. 

The lastest ’advancement’ in Artificial Intelligence, the intelligentsia will tell you, is that that very destructive reverse learning process described above can now go on automatic pilot and ‘teach’ itself to solve more and more problems.  The “breakthrough” that literally mints new billionaires by the week on Wall Street is that this process is expected to replace all working people.  No lie. Look at any given day on Wall Street. Many dozens of major corporation over the past year have announced mass layoffs attributable to AI.  Each announcement is accompanied by a massive pump up of the given corporations’ stock price.  In the odd event that a company announces more hiring, or even in most cases more investment in production facilities, Wall Street promptly sells its stock sending its overall ‘value’ spiraling downward.  And so the New Liberal Order (whose individual members are 90% funded by stock portfolios auto-inflation) pushes this carrot and stick propaganda routine:  Carrot, go with the flow and you will live in a paradise where no one works and everyone lives in his or her own dream world (ala The Matrix), or resist and be labelled a terrorist and die a violent, degrading death. 

The real “breakthrough” with AI is this.  The ‘greatest’ minds at Google (a CIA/Military Industrial Complex startup) and its brethren at Microsoft, Apple, and Meta have decided they can replicate those minds into an omnipotent, omnipresent autopilot.  You can see it already.

Exhibit one, Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence vehicle. During its roll out early this year, it became apparent the entire system was infected with the woke mind virus carried by its creators. Gemini was unwilling to, even incapable of, generating an image of a white historical figure. It would give you a native American Thomas Jefferson, an Asian George Washington, but not a single white man among the founding fathers. Oh, there was a spate of outrage.  Vivek Ramswamy prematurely crowed how Google was paying the “go woke, go broke” price because its stock price faltered for a couple days. Turns out, it faltered for 7 days total. That is how long it took for our neo maniacal, digital driven distraction culture to forget the flap.  3 months later and the stock is up 33% way above all time highs. It is business as usual.

Exhibit two, Microsoft’s AI vehicle “CoPilot.”   Experiment with it yourself.  First, the Edge search engine defaults to the top ten ‘trending’ news items of the day.  As testimony to paragraph 2 above on enforced group think  – 60-70% of those items are utterly pointless distraction, with little to no value to intelligent thought.  For example, for many months its number one item every day was the latest revealing breast shots of Paige Spiranac – so much for Microsoft’s  ‘anti-sexist’ woke virtue culture. It is always populated with one or more celebrity gossip items. It’s the lowest common denominator trash you can find.  What is more disconcerting is AI’s “improvement” on the remaining 30-40 percent of hard news items.  Rather than allow one to browse the news results  and determine the reason for its popularity yourself, Microsoft now insists on mansplaing* it to you.  And those condescending explanations are always preaching the Neo Liberal (read socialist/communist)  talking points interpretation.  Thus, any flap of the big spending, war mongering, morals degenerating variety is immediately and authoritatively justified as “trending” only because, racist, right wing militia oriented Q anon types are overreacting. Test it yourself. It is mind numbing. 

Only the most immoral, entitled, arrogant elite in world history benefit from this; and even then only in the short run.  The arrogant, privileged elite impose their minds upon the workings of every aspect of society through their now omnipresent digital networks; and there is no human there to suffer any of the negative consequences.  It is “artificial” intelligence – so when the rubber meets the road and this society degenerates into a Mad Max dog-eat-dog scramble for subsistence, there is no one there to hold to account, no one who can be made to have a change of heart, a realization leading to a change of course. No, it is automatic pilot and their ain’t anything anyone can do about it.  Unless, more folks start doing something about it before the rubber does meet the road. 

While Big Tech gleefully predicts an AI run world where no one works, consider this: thousands of studies have demonstrated conclusively that the end of work equals the end of life.  Happiness itself is defined as overcoming obstacles to achieve accomplishment; the very definition of work (read for example Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).  The only thing worse than a communist worker’s paradise is a Big Brother no work permitted matrix. 

*Mansplaining. Why use “mansplaining”?  Because it is the perfect demonstration of the hypocrisy of the Neo Liberal Order woke mind culture.  That culture insists on systematically degrading women by  replacing them with men pretending to be women. Military spokespeople, College athletes, the White House giving out an award for advancement of women’s rights to a man wearing a dress, and just now Cannes awarding best actress to a biological man. Meanwhile, Western fertility rates hit their lowest ever. Ever think about why?

Incidentally, Noam Chomsky on AI: