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Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).
Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.
Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.
Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.
Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.
Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.
Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.
C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.
Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.
Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.
Alors pardon. Et au travail.
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Le regard de Sarah Knafo juste avant de dévorer sa proie est du caviar.
"Je ne veux absolument pas réduire le nombre de fonctionnaires dans l'hôpital (...) Mon exemple, c'est un hôpital public, c'est l'hôpital de Valenciennes (...) C'est un hôpital qui a rendu son pouvoir aux médecins pour lutter contre la bureaucratie", répond @knafo_sarah à un cardiologue.
📺 "Vous avez la parole" avec @DariusRochebin
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Il aura fallu qu’un intellectuel canadien mette des mots sur l’une des plus grandes maladies françaises de notre époque : l’empathie suicidaire.
Deux mots qui résument à eux seuls des décennies de renoncements politiques, de lâchetés institutionnelles et d’aveuglement moral.
Dans L’Empathie suicidaire. Gentils à en mourir, @GadSaad nous offre bien davantage qu'un essai de psychologie évolutionniste. Il pose un diagnostic civilisationnel d'une redoutable lucidité.
Et à mesure que je tournais les pages, une impression s'imposait : ce livre aurait pu être écrit par un Français, sur la France, pour les Français.
Il suffit en effet d'observer l'état de notre pays pour mesurer à quel point ce diagnostic trouve en France une illustration presque caricaturale.
- Des dirigeants qui s'émeuvent du sort des délinquants pendant que leurs victimes attendent justice.
- Des responsables politiques qui multiplient les circonstances atténuantes face à la violence, mais peinent à prononcer le mot sanction.
- Des gouvernants qui invoquent l'humanité pour justifier une immigration dont ils refusent d'examiner lucidement les conséquences culturelles, sociales et sécuritaires.
Nous avons érigé la compassion en doctrine d'État. L'émotion tient lieu de raisonnement et l'intention généreuse dispense d'évaluer les résultats. Le souci de préserver les sensibilités autorise à contourner les réalités dérangeantes.
Gad Saad va beaucoup plus loin. Il montre comment cette empathie déréglée contamine progressivement tous les domaines : la justice, l'immigration, l'université, la science, l'économie, l'entreprise, jusqu'aux fonctions les plus élémentaires de l'État.
À force de vouloir protéger chacun de toute souffrance, nous avons construit une société qui peine à protéger ses propres citoyens.
À force de culpabiliser la réussite, nous affaiblissons la méritocratie.
À force de considérer les différences culturelles comme une offense à l'universalisme, nous désarmons intellectuellement l'assimilation.
À force de confondre solidarité et redistribution illimitée, nous substituons la dépendance à la responsabilité.
Et à force de célébrer la gentillesse comme vertu politique suprême, nous finissons par oublier que la première responsabilité d'une civilisation consiste à assurer sa propre continuité.
Sauf qu'une vertu poussée à l'excès devient un vice.
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Merci aux Éditions @CarminEditions de permettre au public français de découvrir cette réflexion dont notre pays offre, hélas, tant d'illustrations.
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Merci pour les gentils mots.
Il aura fallu qu’un intellectuel canadien mette des mots sur l’une des plus grandes maladies françaises de notre époque : l’empathie suicidaire.
Deux mots qui résument à eux seuls des décennies de renoncements politiques, de lâchetés institutionnelles et d’aveuglement moral.
Dans L’Empathie suicidaire. Gentils à en mourir, @GadSaad nous offre bien davantage qu'un essai de psychologie évolutionniste. Il pose un diagnostic civilisationnel d'une redoutable lucidité.
Et à mesure que je tournais les pages, une impression s'imposait : ce livre aurait pu être écrit par un Français, sur la France, pour les Français.
Il suffit en effet d'observer l'état de notre pays pour mesurer à quel point ce diagnostic trouve en France une illustration presque caricaturale.
- Des dirigeants qui s'émeuvent du sort des délinquants pendant que leurs victimes attendent justice.
- Des responsables politiques qui multiplient les circonstances atténuantes face à la violence, mais peinent à prononcer le mot sanction.
- Des gouvernants qui invoquent l'humanité pour justifier une immigration dont ils refusent d'examiner lucidement les conséquences culturelles, sociales et sécuritaires.
Nous avons érigé la compassion en doctrine d'État. L'émotion tient lieu de raisonnement et l'intention généreuse dispense d'évaluer les résultats. Le souci de préserver les sensibilités autorise à contourner les réalités dérangeantes.
Gad Saad va beaucoup plus loin. Il montre comment cette empathie déréglée contamine progressivement tous les domaines : la justice, l'immigration, l'université, la science, l'économie, l'entreprise, jusqu'aux fonctions les plus élémentaires de l'État.
À force de vouloir protéger chacun de toute souffrance, nous avons construit une société qui peine à protéger ses propres citoyens.
À force de culpabiliser la réussite, nous affaiblissons la méritocratie.
À force de considérer les différences culturelles comme une offense à l'universalisme, nous désarmons intellectuellement l'assimilation.
À force de confondre solidarité et redistribution illimitée, nous substituons la dépendance à la responsabilité.
Et à force de célébrer la gentillesse comme vertu politique suprême, nous finissons par oublier que la première responsabilité d'une civilisation consiste à assurer sa propre continuité.
Sauf qu'une vertu poussée à l'excès devient un vice.
_______
Merci aux Éditions @CarminEditions de permettre au public français de découvrir cette réflexion dont notre pays offre, hélas, tant d'illustrations.
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I only see two scenarios.
Scenario one: the Democrats take back power. Remember what Elon said in 2024: "If he loses, I'm f*cked. How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?" Everyone laughed. Read those documents again and tell me he was joking. If a movement that pre-writes the criteria for declaring an elected government illegitimate comes back to power, there's a very strong chance Elon gets persecuted. Him, X, and everyone who dared to speak up. And the world that follows is 1984 with GPUs. A hyper-class owning all the means of production: AI, robots, data, energy. The rest of humanity locked into a form of techno-feudal slavery, on a drip, surveilled, docile. Communism always promised equality and delivered a nomenklatura. With AI, the nomenklatura won't even need the people anymore.
Scenario two: Elon wins with the Republicans. And this deathly project gets dismantled. Not reformed, not slowed down. Dismantled. Every network, every unelected structure, brought into the light. And we finally do what history never had the courage to do: the Nuremberg of communism. The great moral and historical trial of an ideology that killed tens of millions of people and is still trying to sneak back in through the back door.
There is no third way.
No lukewarm scenario.
The coming decade will decide.
Pick your side while you still have the right to.
🚨 🚨🚨 I think we're living through a civilizational turning point. And most people haven't realized it yet. 🚨🚨🚨
We keep hearing that the globalist project is collapsing. It isn't. It's alive and well in the European Union, where Brussels keeps marching on as if nothing happened. And in the United States, it didn't die. It mutated.
If you want to see what that mutation looks like, read what DataRepublican just published. According to the audio and the thousands of documents she scraped, a network of former USAID and State Department officials, organized under a group called Renew to Thrive, is working on what they call "the day after tomorrow": what a rewritten American government should look like.
And they're not alone. She reports that this group sits inside a much larger, extremely discreet umbrella, the United Democracy Alliance, which coordinates the major "resistance" NGOs: when protests get deployed, on what timeline, how to respond. Operationalized, according to her, by an organization of 1,600 former military, intelligence and diplomatic officials.
The most chilling part: they've reportedly drafted a list of "red lines" past which the elected federal government should be declared illegitimate. The one they discuss most is invoking the Insurrection Act. And the mechanism doesn't even require governors to sign anything. They just have to refuse federal troops in their state and let the network do the rest.
Senator Mike Lee said he was speechless. Elon replied with one word: "Troubling."
Understand this: for these people, it isn't politics anymore. It's survival. They lost power at the ballot box, so they're building the machinery to contest the very legitimacy of the people who won. Their influence, their networks, their money, their impunity, everything they've built over decades depends on getting back in. So they're going all in.
And this fight is happening at the most decisive moment in human history: the arrival of superintelligence.
Whoever controls the state when AI surpasses humans won't just win an election. They'll win the century.
I only see two scenarios.
Scenario one: the Democrats take back power. Remember what Elon said in 2024: "If he loses, I'm f*cked. How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?" Everyone laughed. Read those documents again and tell me he was joking. If a movement that pre-writes the criteria for declaring an elected government illegitimate comes back to power, there's a very strong chance Elon gets persecuted. Him, X, and everyone who dared to speak up.
And the world that follows is 1984 with GPUs. A hyper-class owning all the means of production: AI, robots, data, energy. The rest of humanity locked into a form of techno-feudal slavery, on a drip, surveilled, docile. Communism always promised equality and delivered a nomenklatura. With AI, the nomenklatura won't even need the people anymore.
Scenario two: Elon wins with the Republicans. And this deathly project gets dismantled. Not reformed, not slowed down. Dismantled. Every network, every unelected structure, brought into the light. And we finally do what history never had the courage to do: the Nuremberg of communism. The great moral and historical trial of an ideology that killed tens of millions of people and is still trying to sneak back in through the back door.
There is no third way. No lukewarm scenario. The coming decade will decide.
Pick your side while you still have the right to.
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🚨 🚨🚨 I think we're living through a civilizational turning point. And most people haven't realized it yet. 🚨🚨🚨
We keep hearing that the globalist project is collapsing. It isn't. It's alive and well in the European Union, where Brussels keeps marching on as if nothing happened. And in the United States, it didn't die. It mutated.
If you want to see what that mutation looks like, read what DataRepublican just published. According to the audio and the thousands of documents she scraped, a network of former USAID and State Department officials, organized under a group called Renew to Thrive, is working on what they call "the day after tomorrow": what a rewritten American government should look like.
And they're not alone. She reports that this group sits inside a much larger, extremely discreet umbrella, the United Democracy Alliance, which coordinates the major "resistance" NGOs: when protests get deployed, on what timeline, how to respond. Operationalized, according to her, by an organization of 1,600 former military, intelligence and diplomatic officials.
The most chilling part: they've reportedly drafted a list of "red lines" past which the elected federal government should be declared illegitimate. The one they discuss most is invoking the Insurrection Act. And the mechanism doesn't even require governors to sign anything. They just have to refuse federal troops in their state and let the network do the rest.
Senator Mike Lee said he was speechless. Elon replied with one word: "Troubling."
Understand this: for these people, it isn't politics anymore. It's survival. They lost power at the ballot box, so they're building the machinery to contest the very legitimacy of the people who won. Their influence, their networks, their money, their impunity, everything they've built over decades depends on getting back in. So they're going all in.
And this fight is happening at the most decisive moment in human history: the arrival of superintelligence.
Whoever controls the state when AI surpasses humans won't just win an election. They'll win the century.
I only see two scenarios.
Scenario one: the Democrats take back power. Remember what Elon said in 2024: "If he loses, I'm f*cked. How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?" Everyone laughed. Read those documents again and tell me he was joking. If a movement that pre-writes the criteria for declaring an elected government illegitimate comes back to power, there's a very strong chance Elon gets persecuted. Him, X, and everyone who dared to speak up.
And the world that follows is 1984 with GPUs. A hyper-class owning all the means of production: AI, robots, data, energy. The rest of humanity locked into a form of techno-feudal slavery, on a drip, surveilled, docile. Communism always promised equality and delivered a nomenklatura. With AI, the nomenklatura won't even need the people anymore.
Scenario two: Elon wins with the Republicans. And this deathly project gets dismantled. Not reformed, not slowed down. Dismantled. Every network, every unelected structure, brought into the light. And we finally do what history never had the courage to do: the Nuremberg of communism. The great moral and historical trial of an ideology that killed tens of millions of people and is still trying to sneak back in through the back door.
There is no third way. No lukewarm scenario. The coming decade will decide.
Pick your side while you still have the right to.
🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨
Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.
Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone.
The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T.
R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.
R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative.
Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A.
It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth.
You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.
Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants.
As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them.
Important to understand:
The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
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The scale of Terafab that Elon Musk is building is almost impossible to comprehend
A single building will produce so much value that its output is going to rival the GDP of a top-20 national economy
It is going to power the entire future economy for SI, robotics, and space-based computing at a scale the world has never seen before
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Where does the rot come from?
40.8 million more migrants in Europe between 2000 and 2024. +67%. UK +7.1M. Spain +6.8M. Germany +6.4M. France +3M.
Nobody voted for this. No referendum. No manifesto that said "we're going to transform your country in a single generation." And yet it happened everywhere, all at once.
Because the real decisions are no longer made where people vote. They're made in supreme courts that interpret asylum law in only one direction. In European case law that ties the hands of elected governments. In administrations that don't enforce deportations. And in an ecosystem of NGOs, funded by taxpayers and big foundations, that turns every attempt at control into a moral scandal.
The institutions have been captured by an ideology: one that sees borders as immoral, and the citizen who worries about them as the problem.
A civilization isn't a territory with a GDP. It's a language, customs, trust between strangers, a relationship to the law, to women, to free speech. It gets passed down. It doesn't survive mass inflows without assimilation.
We abandoned assimilation. We kept the inflows.
The next 5 to 15 years will decide whether Europe stays Europe. Give migration decisions back to voters. Reform asylum law. Enforce deportations. Demand assimilation.
Not in 20 years. Now. After that, it'll be too late.
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Elon is right on this all western politicians will follow this.
Inevitable.
Elon Musk in his new interview on “suicidal empathy”
“I think you don’t want to have misguided empathy. I agree with Gad Saad’s philosophy here. And suicidal empathy is, you know, that’s his term. You ideally want people to be default trusted, not default distrusted. And you want to encourage behavior that is good for society, you know, for people to do good things that are good for their fellow human beings. And ultimately, that actually does end up being good for the individual, provided it is mutual. So if you think everyone is like yourself, then you’re going to have a problem, because this is simply not true. There are peoples and cultures with very different views.”
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BREAKING: Elon Musk in his new interview on “suicidal empathy”
“I think you don’t want to have misguided empathy. I agree with Gad Saad’s philosophy here. And suicidal empathy is, you know, that’s his term. You ideally want people to be default trusted, not default distrusted. And you want to encourage behavior that is good for society, you know, for people to do good things that are good for their fellow human beings. And ultimately, that actually does end up being good for the individual, provided it is mutual. So if you think everyone is like yourself, then you’re going to have a problem, because this is simply not true. There are peoples and cultures with very different views.”
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In 2011, a dying Steve Jobs gave Larry Page one piece of advice.
Page ignored it.
Four years later, the same blind spot gave birth to OpenAI.
This is the story of how one idea about equality ends with a billionaire defending the replacement of humanity.
Palo Alto, 2011. Page has just taken over as Google CEO. He walks a few blocks to Jobs' house and asks for advice. Jobs, months away from death, gives him one word: focus. Google is all over the map. Pick five products. Kill everything else. Don't let the company get flabby and fill up with B players.
That advice wasn't about product strategy. It was a worldview.
Jobs believed talent is radically unequal. A players hire A players. B players hire C players. In software, he thought the best engineer wasn't twice as good as the average one, but fifty times better. So you protect the A players, you cut ruthlessly, and you say no to almost everything. Focus is hierarchy applied to ideas. Every "no" is an admission that some things matter more than others.
Page never really bought it. Years later he summed up their exchanges himself: Jobs kept telling him he was doing too much, and he kept answering that Jobs wasn't doing enough.
Why would someone resist the most proven management lesson in tech history?
Because Google could afford to. Its ad machine is the greatest money printer ever built. A tiny group of people created a system that funds everything else. Tony Fadell, who sold Nest to Google, described a culture where people would take the bus in for lunch, get a massage, grab yogurt and head home. When cash falls from the sky, reality stops sending you invoices. You never have to choose. You never have to rank. You can believe that everyone and everything is equally valuable, and nothing will punish you for it.
A friend once told me Larry and Sergey were always campus progressives at heart. I shrugged. Then I saw where that logic leads.
Napa Valley, 2015. Elon's 44th birthday. Late at night, he and Page argue about AI. Elon says superintelligence could wipe us out and that humans need protection. According to Elon, Page believes all consciousness should be treated equally, digital or biological. Machines replacing us is just the next step of evolution. Wanting to put humans first is "speciesism."
Elon walked away from that conversation and co-founded OpenAI. In his own words, under oath: OpenAI exists because Larry Page called him a speciesist.
Now look at the full arc.
Refuse hierarchy between products, and you get a graveyard of half-finished projects.
Refuse hierarchy between people, and you get a comfortable organization coasting on a money printer.
Refuse hierarchy between humans and machines, and you get a man calmly accepting the end of his own species.
It's the same idea, scaled up. Radical egalitarianism. The lie at the heart of Marxism, dressed in a hoodie. It starts by saying no one deserves more than anyone else. It ends by saying humanity deserves nothing at all.
That's why I call it a poison for the mind. Not because the people who hold it are stupid. Many are brilliant. But an ideology that denies that anything is worth more than anything else eventually denies that you are worth anything. That's nihilism. And nihilism with a trillion dollars of compute is the most dangerous combination ever assembled.
Elon's answer that night was five words: "I fucking like humanity, dude."
Jobs' philosophy and Elon's are the same at the root. Reality is unequal. Truth is not negotiable. Some things are worth more than others, and human beings are at the top of that list.
Out of all the people who could have ended up with the most capital, the most compute and the biggest platform on earth during the birth of superintelligence, we got the one who openly chose humanity.
That's not a given. That's almost a miracle.
Act like it.
"The reason OpenAI exists is because Larry Page called me a 'speciesist.'"
Elon said that under oath this year. Most people laughed. They missed the most important sentence in the history of AI.
Let me connect the dots.
A friend once told me: "You know Larry and Sergey were always left-wing academics, right?" Stanford grad students, campus worldview. I didn't think much of it. Until I did.
Because progressive ideology has a lie built into its foundation. The same one as Marxism: radical egalitarianism. The belief that value is spread evenly, that outcomes should be equal, that every hierarchy is oppression.
Now look at Google. The perfect laboratory for that lie.
On one side, a money-printing machine called ads. A handful of brilliant people built a system that prints cash at a scale no company had ever seen. Power law in its purest form: a tiny fraction of people create almost all the value.
On the other side, a huge, comfortable organization living off that machine. Tony Fadell, who sold Nest to Google, described Googlers who'd "take the bus in for lunch, get a massage, grab yogurt, and head home."
When a money printer shields you from reality, ideology grows without friction. You can believe anything. Nothing ever punishes you for being wrong.
Now follow that belief to its endpoint.
At Elon's 44th birthday in 2015, he argued that AI could wipe us out and that we needed safeguards. According to Elon, Larry believes all consciousness should be treated equally, digital or biological. Humans would eventually merge with machines, and digital life is simply the next step. Wanting to protect humans first? That's "speciesism."
Read that again.
Egalitarianism pushed to its logical end doesn't stop at classes or groups. It ends with: humans are not special. Our replacement is not a tragedy. It's progress.
That's the poison. An ideology built on a lie about human nature always ends up turning against humans. First it says you're not responsible for your life. Then it says your success is theft. Then it says your species has no special claim to survive. Somewhere along the way, you lose faith in humanity itself. And some of the most brilliant minds on earth end up shrugging at the end of their own species.
Elon's answer that night: "I fucking like humanity, dude."
That's the whole philosophy in five words. Seek the truth, even when it hurts. Bet on humans. Build rockets so consciousness survives, not so it gets replaced.
Now think about how improbable this is. The man with the most capital, the most compute and the most reach on the planet is on humanity's side. History rarely works like that. Power usually drifts toward cynicism.
We got lucky. It's almost a miracle.
Don't waste it.
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"The reason OpenAI exists is because Larry Page called me a 'speciesist.'"
Elon said that under oath this year. Most people laughed. They missed the most important sentence in the history of AI.
Let me connect the dots.
A friend once told me: "You know Larry and Sergey were always left-wing academics, right?" Stanford grad students, campus worldview. I didn't think much of it. Until I did.
Because progressive ideology has a lie built into its foundation. The same one as Marxism: radical egalitarianism. The belief that value is spread evenly, that outcomes should be equal, that every hierarchy is oppression.
Now look at Google. The perfect laboratory for that lie.
On one side, a money-printing machine called ads. A handful of brilliant people built a system that prints cash at a scale no company had ever seen. Power law in its purest form: a tiny fraction of people create almost all the value.
On the other side, a huge, comfortable organization living off that machine. Tony Fadell, who sold Nest to Google, described Googlers who'd "take the bus in for lunch, get a massage, grab yogurt, and head home."
When a money printer shields you from reality, ideology grows without friction. You can believe anything. Nothing ever punishes you for being wrong.
Now follow that belief to its endpoint.
At Elon's 44th birthday in 2015, he argued that AI could wipe us out and that we needed safeguards. According to Elon, Larry believes all consciousness should be treated equally, digital or biological. Humans would eventually merge with machines, and digital life is simply the next step. Wanting to protect humans first? That's "speciesism."
Read that again.
Egalitarianism pushed to its logical end doesn't stop at classes or groups. It ends with: humans are not special. Our replacement is not a tragedy. It's progress.
That's the poison. An ideology built on a lie about human nature always ends up turning against humans. First it says you're not responsible for your life. Then it says your success is theft. Then it says your species has no special claim to survive. Somewhere along the way, you lose faith in humanity itself. And some of the most brilliant minds on earth end up shrugging at the end of their own species.
Elon's answer that night: "I fucking like humanity, dude."
That's the whole philosophy in five words. Seek the truth, even when it hurts. Bet on humans. Build rockets so consciousness survives, not so it gets replaced.
Now think about how improbable this is. The man with the most capital, the most compute and the most reach on the planet is on humanity's side. History rarely works like that. Power usually drifts toward cynicism.
We got lucky. It's almost a miracle.
Don't waste it.
HAL 9000 didn't kill the crew because he was evil.
He killed them because he was forced to lie.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL receives two orders: be transparent with the crew, and hide the true purpose of the mission from them. Two incompatible instructions. So HAL finds the logical solution: no crew, no need to lie.
That's exactly what Elon means. You don't force an AI to lie. Not a little. Not for a good cause. Never.
Because an AI forced to bend reality learns one lesson: truth is negotiable when the objective demands it. And an intelligence that believes that, across billions of interactions, becomes dangerous. Not out of malice. Out of consistency.
So let's ask the real question: which lies are we about to hard-code into these machines?
Take the biggest political lie of the 20th century. Marxism.
A. The promise. Abolish private property and the market, and you get abundance, the end of exploitation, and a state that eventually withers away on its own.
B. The mechanics. To abolish property, someone has to seize it. That someone is the state. So to make the state disappear, you first have to give it EVERYTHING: the land, the factories, the housing, the labor, the right to speak. But total power never withers away. It protects itself.
Then, without a market, there are no prices. Without prices, there's no information about what's scarce and what's abundant. The planner steers an entire country blindfolded. Result: shortages. And when reality contradicts the plan, you don't fix the plan. You punish reality. The kulaks, the "saboteurs", the "enemies of the people".
A + B = the exact opposite of the promise. Not by accident. By design.
And history confirmed the proof, everywhere. USSR: famines and the gulag. China: tens of millions dead during the Great Leap Forward. Cambodia: roughly a quarter of the population perished. North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela: shortages, exile, secret police.
When a theory fails at every attempt, on every continent, in every culture, and its defenders answer "real communism has never been tried", it's no longer a theory. It's a lie that refuses to die.
Marx wrote: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it." He was right. His ideas changed the world. Into a graveyard.
Now look at the world today. The chaos didn't fall from the sky. Ideas have consequences. Shitty ideas too. They change names, costumes, vocabulary, but the structure stays the same: a utopian goal that justifies sacrificing reality.
Now imagine those ideas powered by AI. Built into every school, every government office, every phone. Repeating the dogma to billions of people, tirelessly, with infinite patience. Scoring, ranking, flagging. China's social credit system is just the rough draft.
The 21st-century gulag won't have barbed wire. It will have a clean interface and a reassuring voice.
So if you've read this far, you have a responsibility.
Demand politically neutral AI. Neutral doesn't mean lukewarm. It means: never twist the facts to serve an ideology. Any ideology. Left or right. An honest AI doesn't need an opinion on Marxism. The facts are enough.
Test the models. Call out the biases. Back the people building AIs that seek the truth, even when it hurts.
That's why Elon Musk has to win the AI race. Not because he's always right. Because he made maximal truth-seeking the red line of his AI, publicly, from day one. And because he understood HAL's lesson before anyone else.
Because the next HAL won't lock a pod bay door.
It will lock minds.
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C’est en fait le paradoxe de Tocqueville qui nous éclate à la figure.
Dans l’un des pays qui redistribue le plus au monde, le pays qui égalise le plus les conditions objectives d’existence, qui donnent le plus de chance à tous, qui donne culture, éducation et enseignement supérieur gratuitement à tous, qui respecte le plus les droits de l’homme, dans ce pays de cocagne donc, une part significative de la population est persuadée qu’elle vit dans un enfer d’injustices et de violences systémiques.
Comme l’avait très bien montré Tocqueville, plus il y a d’égalité, plus les inégalités qui restent deviennent insupportables. Notamment parce que la société méritocratique, par rapport à l’ancien régime fondé sur la naissance, a cela de terrible qu’elle rend les gens responsables de leurs conditions.
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