Was LBJ’s Great Society “social safety net” a spiderweb from its initial conception? Elizabeth Hinton’s book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime” offers insights into the history of government welfare in the United States and an assessment that it provided the foundation for an expansive police state used to surveil and prey upon poor communities of color. As a Harvard (now Yale) professor however, Hinton neglects to offer her readers vital information necessary to contemplate an extension of these programs into a planned future of cybernetic social impact governance. I anticipate such a program is on our doorstep and will likely be rolled out under the banner of renewed democracy, bottom-up redistributive social justice, and gamified social systems leveraging tokenomics embedded in welfare allotments and venture-capital-backed UBI (Universal Basic Income).
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that in this reductive, polarized, TikTok’d, limited-attention-span world, few seem capable of engaging in intelligent discussion about a potential future where AI-managed hedge funds make millions of wagers “shorting” human capital securities. You know, liquid assets, like debt attached to low-income toddlers monitored in their Bezos-funded Montessori Headstart classrooms, watched by “machines of loving grace” on Educare’s “We Play Smart” surveillance play tables or maybe Sep Kamvar’s ceiling mounted cameras and felt slippers with embedded sensors. You know, to assess their “character,” and manage them for their planned role as child diviners (aka Platonic daimonology).
In today’s video I remind readers about the intersection of Health and Human Services (now being overseen by Mr. “Personalized Vaccinomics / Free Markets in Energy / Sacred Economics, Bitcoin” Bobby Kennedy), data-driven pay for success finance, and “accountable” “what works” government. The groundwork for the latter having been diligently prepared over the past fifteen years by Ronald Cohen’s Social Finance, George Overholser’s Third Sector Capital Partners, and the Harvard Kennedy School with support of Bloomberg Philanthropies among others.
My thought experiment is that Peter Thiel’s Palantir (an all-seeing eye set up as a social impact bond evaluator and data governance advisor) is actually administering a web3 fitness landscape intended to groom the collective unconsciousness of humanity for distributed intelligence applications utilizing psychedelic and meditative-enhanced astral projection into alternative dimensions as “self-sovereign” nodes in a global bio-hybrid computing network.
Claude Shannon’s original “computers” were the women programmers at Bell Labs. Thus, the future of “work” in a world where engineered intelligence comes to dominate white-collar knowledge work, could very well tap the working poor (United Way’s Alices) as remote viewing “computers” to walk infospace labyrinths in search of encrypted artifacts that can be found only on the other side of the looking glass.
What might it be like to live in an outside-in robot engineered by your HMO? For a glimpse into such a future listen to my follow up commentary and read aloud of Van Diamondfinger’s 2017 short story “The Domestic Front” originally published in Oxford American in which a man experiencing profound depression tries to disengage from his AI smart housing system.
Additional source material for your further consideration:
Map of Kennedy involvement in community development and the Great Society
Map of Ralph Borsodi (funded by Chauncy Stillman) and decentralist agrarian communities
Map of Food RX / DC Greens Medicaid Food Management for “Wellness”
Accenture’s involvement with pay for success finance linked to programmable smart cards via Gary Glickman.
Plans to blockchain SNAP food assistance in Illinois using game mechanics
Brilliant connecting the dots! All I can say briefly is this:
RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, ‘SMART, AI, 5G, NO CASH – ALL OF IT!
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AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos – garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!
My thoughts about everything in the world and I have no nuts and bolts solutions. Can’t say this often enough! THESE WEF MONSTERS RUNNING THE WORLD NEED TO BE DEPOPULATED OFF THE PLANET!
I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.
There is a fate worse than death – I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!
My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds! technocracy.news
I have read many analyses of the `anti poverty´ programs of the great society. They sure didn’t live up to the PR. In St Louis, they took the urban black owned businesses` land for urban redevelopment, and moved the population way out of the city to an area with no service. In SF they took over the land of black owned businesses and built things like huge arenas, that did not benefit the locals. So, the devil is always in the details.
These refreshers are helpful. I thank you
I prefer your natural human intelligence to ANYTHING associated with artificial intelligence.
Thank you, not only for your commentary but for the information attached. With time, your previous research and hard work is showing us the complete picture, if we care to see.
A sentence in that 2016 paper you linked to seems to sum up a lot of what is happening. “The Internet of Things and the blockchain technology underlying the Bitcoin architecture provide the technological requirements to realize “Finance 4.0” and “Capitalism 2.0” based on knowledge from the science of complex systems”.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.08168