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In this essay, I explore the rise of Palantir, Peter Thiel's techno-authoritarian worldview, and the emerging fusion of AI surveillance, militarism, techno-feudalism, and reactionary politics in America. Drawing on thinkers like Byung-Chul Han, Eva Illouz, and Catherine Liu, I examine how modern subjectivity itself has been reshaped by neoliberalism, social media, therapeutic culture, and algorithmic control — and why collective resistance to authoritarian power feels so fragmented and muted today. Is this simply a temporary backlash against progressive culture… or are we watching the birth of a permanent techno-fascist order?

#Famine #OilCrisis #StraitOfHormuz #GlobalCollapse #Geopolitics #EnergyCrisis #Trump #WorldWar3 #EconomicCollapse #FoodShortage #DieselShortage #IranWar #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #SystemsCollapse #PeakOil #SupplyChain #Apocalypse #VideoEssay #LateCapitalism

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Please share the full video essay @LiminalNewsPod on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/nt333tOV0RE?si=VpcCGmWWicR1MMPT

I explore the rise of Palantir, Peter Thiel's techno-authoritarian worldview, and the emerging fusion of AI surveillance, militarism, techno-feudalism, and reactionary politics in America. Drawing on thinkers like Byung-Chul Han, Eva Illouz, and Catherine Liu, I examine how modern subjectivity itself has been reshaped by neoliberalism, social media, therapeutic culture, and algorithmic control — and why collective resistance to authoritarian power feels so fragmented and muted today. Is this simply a temporary backlash against progressive culture… or are we watching the birth of a permanent techno-fascist order?

#Palantir #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #TechnoFascism #AI #SurveillanceState #Authoritarianism #Trump #LateCapitalism #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #TechnologicalRepublic #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalControl #ByungChulHan #Technofeudalism #Neoliberalism #Geopolitics #IranWar #PalantirTechnologies

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What if Elon Musk is possessed?

This video essay examines the unsettling, dissociated facial expressions Musk made during his stint as Trump's chief buddy at the White House and Mar-a-Lago — and what they reveal about a crisis the materialist worldview can't explain.

When Musk fed USAID into "the wood chipper," Bill Gates told the Financial Times: "the picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one." Musk was unmoved. He had already gone on Joe Rogan to declare that "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" — borrowing the Canadian marketing professor Gad Saad's notion of "suicidal empathy."

This video is adapted from my Substack essays:
https://substack.com/@danielpinchbeck/p-195875588 Part One
https://substack.com/home/post/p-195999100 Part Two

Drawing on the cultural philosopher William Irwin Thompson, the analytic idealist Bernardo Kastrup, the sociologist Peter Berger, and the 2022 and 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics — which together overturn the materialist paradigm at its foundations — this essay asks whether what we are seeing is what older traditions accurately called demonic possession, and what it means for understanding our techno-fascist moment.

In an age where the boundary between the physical and the psychic is dissolving, where ketamine-besotted billionaires play god with our economy and our information environment, are we witnessing what Thompson warned of three decades ago: a screeching breach through which the demonic re-enters the world?

#ElonMusk #DemonicPossession #Psychedelics #Consciousness #AI #TechCulture #SimulationTheory #Spirituality #Philosophy #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #Occult #QuantumPhysics #BurningMan #Transhumanism #TechBillionaires #EpistemicCrisis #NewAge #PsychedelicRenaissance #FutureOfConsciousness

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