Dougal Rushkoff – The Guardian Sept 4, 2022
As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. The people most interested in hiring me for my opinions about technology are usually less concerned with building tools that help people live better lives in the present than they are in identifying the Next Big Thing through which to dominate them in the future. I don’t usually respond to their inquiries. Why help these guys ruin what’s left of the internet, much less civilisation?
Still, sometimes a combination of morbid curiosity and cold hard cash is enough to get me on a stage in front of the tech elite, where I try to talk some sense into them about how their businesses are affecting our lives out here in the real world. That’s how I found myself accepting an invitation to address a group mysteriously described as “ultra-wealthy stakeholders”, out in the middle of the desert.
A limo was waiting for me at the airport. As the sun began to dip over the horizon, I realised I had been in the car for three hours. What sort of wealthy hedge-fund types would drive this far from the airport for a conference? Then I saw it. On a parallel path next to the highway, as if racing against us, a small jet was coming in for a landing on a private airfield. Of course.
The next morning, two men in matching Patagonia fleeces came for me in a golf cart and conveyed me through rocks and underbrush to a meeting hall. They left me to drink coffee and prepare in what I figured was serving as my green room. But instead of me being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, my audience was brought in to me. They sat around the table and introduced themselves: five super-wealthy guys – yes, all men – from the upper echelon of the tech investing and hedge-fund world. At least two of them were billionaires. After a bit of small talk, I realised they had no interest in the speech I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come to ask questions.
They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.
This was probably the wealthiest, most powerful group I had ever encountered. Yet here they were, asking a Marxist media theorist for advice on where and how to configure their doomsday bunkers. That’s when it hit me: at least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology.
Taking their cue from Tesla founder Elon Musk colonising Mars, Palantir’s Peter Thiel reversing the ageing process, or artificial intelligence developers Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether. Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us.
These people once showered the world with madly optimistic business plans for how technology might benefit human society. Now they’ve reduced technological progress to a video game that one of them wins by finding the escape hatch. Will it be Jeff Bezos migrating to space, Thiel to his New Zealand compound, or Mark Zuckerberg to his virtual metaverse? And these catastrophising billionaires are the presumptive winners of the digital economy – the supposed champions of the survival-of-the-fittest business landscape that’s fuelling most of this speculation to begin with
What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.
Yet this Silicon Valley escapism – let’s call it The Mindset – encourages its adherents to believe that the winners can somehow leave the rest of us behind.
Never before have our society’s most powerful players assumed that the primary impact of their own conquests would be to render the world itself unliveable for everyone else. Nor have they ever before had the technologies through which to programme their sensibilities into the very fabric of our society. The landscape is alive with algorithms and intelligences actively encouraging these selfish and isolationist outlooks. Those sociopathic enough to embrace them are rewarded with cash and control over the rest of us. It’s a self-reinforcing feedback loop. This is new.
Amplified by digital technologies and the unprecedented wealth disparity they afford, The Mindset allows for the easy externalisation of harm to others, and inspires a corresponding longing for transcendence and separation from the people and places that have been abused.
Instead of just lording over us for ever, however, the billionaires at the top of these virtual pyramids actively seek the endgame. In fact, like the plot of a Marvel blockbuster, the very structure of The Mindset requires an endgame. Everything must resolve to a one or a zero, a winner or loser, the saved or the damned. Actual, imminent catastrophes from the climate emergency to mass migrations support the mythology, offering these would-be superheroes the opportunity to play out the finale in their own lifetimes. For The Mindset also includes a faith-based Silicon Valley certainty that they can develop a technology that will somehow break the laws of physics, economics and morality to offer them something even better than a way of saving the world: a means of escape from the apocalypse of their own making.
By the time I boarded my return flight to New York, my mind was reeling with the implications of The Mindset. What were its main tenets? Who were its true believers? What, if anything, could we do to resist it? Before I had even landed, I posted an article about my strange encounter – to surprising effect.
Almost immediately, I began receiving inquiries from businesses catering to the billionaire prepper, all hoping I would make some introductions on their behalf to the five men I had written about. I heard from a real estate agent who specialises in disaster-proof listings, a company taking reservations for its third underground dwellings project, and a security firm offering various forms of “risk management”.
But the message that got my attention came from a former president of the American chamber of commerce in Latvia. JC Cole had witnessed the fall of the Soviet empire, as well as what it took to rebuild a working society almost from scratch. He had also served as landlord for the American and European Union embassies, and learned a whole lot about security systems and evacuation plans. “You certainly stirred up a bees’ nest,” he began his first email to me. “It’s quite accurate – the wealthy hiding in their bunkers will have a problem with their security teams… I believe you are correct with your advice to ‘treat those people really well, right now’, but also the concept may be expanded and I believe there is a better system that would give much better results.”
He felt certain that the “event” – a grey swan, or predictable catastrophe triggered by our enemies, Mother Nature, or just by accident –was inevitable. He had done a Swot analysis – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats – and concluded that preparing for calamity required us to take the very same measures as trying to prevent one. “By coincidence,” he explained, “I am setting up a series of safe haven farms in the NYC area. These are designed to best handle an ‘event’ and also benefit society as semi-organic farms. Both within three hours’ drive from the city – close enough to get there when it happens.”
Here was a prepper with security clearance, field experience and food sustainability expertise. He believed the best way to cope with the impending disaster was to change the way we treat one another, the economy, and the planet right now – while also developing a network of secret, totally self-sufficient residential farm communities for millionaires, guarded by Navy Seals armed to the teeth.
JC is currently developing two farms as part of his safe haven project. Farm one, outside Princeton, is his show model and “works well as long as the thin blue line is working”. The second one, somewhere in the Poconos, has to remain a secret. “The fewer people who know the locations, the better,” he explained, along with a link to the Twilight Zone episode in which panicked neighbours break into a family’s bomb shelter during a nuclear scare. “The primary value of safe haven is operational security, nicknamed OpSec by the military. If/when the supply chain breaks, the people will have no food delivered. Covid-19 gave us the wake-up call as people started fighting over toilet paper. When it comes to a shortage of food it will be vicious. That is why those intelligent enough to invest have to be stealthy.”
JC invited me down to New Jersey to see the real thing. “Wear boots,” he said. “The ground is still wet.” Then he asked: “Do you shoot?”
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The farm itself was serving as an equestrian centre and tactical training facility in addition to raising goats and chickens. JC showed me how to hold and shoot a Glock at a series of outdoor targets shaped like bad guys, while he grumbled about the way Senator Dianne Feinstein had limited the number of rounds one could legally fit in a magazine for the handgun. JC knew his stuff. I asked him about various combat scenarios. “The only way to protect your family is with a group,” he said. That was really the whole point of his project – to gather a team capable of sheltering in place for a year or more, while also defending itself from those who hadn’t prepared. JC was also hoping to train young farmers in sustainable agriculture, and to secure at least one doctor and dentist for each location.
On the way back to the main building, JC showed me the “layered security” protocols he had learned designing embassy properties: a fence, “no trespassing” signs, guard dogs, surveillance cameras … all meant to discourage violent confrontation. He paused for a minute as he stared down the drive. “Honestly, I am less concerned about gangs with guns than the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food.” He paused, and sighed, “I don’t want to be in that moral dilemma.”
That’s why JC’s real passion wasn’t just to build a few isolated, militarised retreat facilities for millionaires, but to prototype locally owned sustainable farms that can be modelled by others and ultimately help restore regional food security in America. The “just-in-time” delivery system preferred by agricultural conglomerates renders most of the nation vulnerable to a crisis as minor as a power outage or transportation shutdown. Meanwhile, the centralisation of the agricultural industry has left most farms utterly dependent on the same long supply chains as urban consumers. “Most egg farmers can’t even raise chickens,” JC explained as he showed me his henhouses. “They buy chicks. I’ve got roosters.”
JC is no hippy environmentalist but his business model is based in the same communitarian spirit I tried to convey to the billionaires: the way to keep the hungry hordes from storming the gates is by getting them food security now. So for $3m, investors not only get a maximum security compound in which to ride out the coming plague, solar storm, or electric grid collapse. They also get a stake in a potentially profitable network of local farm franchises that could reduce the probability of a catastrophic event in the first place. His business would do its best to ensure there are as few hungry children at the gate as possible when the time comes to lock down.
So far, JC Cole has been unable to convince anyone to invest in American Heritage Farms. That doesn’t mean no one is investing in such schemes. It’s just that the ones that attract more attention and cash don’t generally have these cooperative components. They’re more for people who want to go it alone. Most billionaire preppers don’t want to have to learn to get along with a community of farmers or, worse, spend their winnings funding a national food resilience programme. The mindset that requires safe havens is less concerned with preventing moral dilemmas than simply keeping them out of sight.
A shelter under construction by the Rising S company in Texas. Click to enlarge
Many of those seriously seeking a safe haven simply hire one of several prepper construction companies to bury a prefab steel-lined bunker somewhere on one of their existing properties. Rising S Company in Texas builds and installs bunkers and tornado shelters for as little as $40,000 for an 8ft by 12ft emergency hideout all the way up to the $8.3m luxury series “Aristocrat”, complete with pool and bowling lane. The enterprise originally catered to families seeking temporary storm shelters, before it went into the long-term apocalypse business. The company logo, complete with three crucifixes, suggests their services are geared more toward Christian evangelist preppers in red-state America than billionaire tech bros playing out sci-fi scenarios.
There’s something much more whimsical about the facilities in which most of the billionaires – or, more accurately, aspiring billionaires – actually invest. A company called Vivos is selling luxury underground apartments in converted cold war munitions storage facilities, missile silos, and other fortified locations around the world. Like miniature Club Med resorts, they offer private suites for individuals or families, and larger common areas with pools, games, movies and dining. Ultra-elite shelters such as the Oppidum in the Czech Republic claim to cater to the billionaire class, and pay more attention to the long-term psychological health of residents. They provide imitation of natural light, such as a pool with a simulated sunlit garden area, a wine vault, and other amenities to make the wealthy feel at home.
On closer analysis, however, the probability of a fortified bunker actually protecting its occupants from the reality of, well, reality, is very slim. For one, the closed ecosystems of underground facilities are preposterously brittle. For example, an indoor, sealed hydroponic garden is vulnerable to contamination. Vertical farms with moisture sensors and computer-controlled irrigation systems look great in business plans and on the rooftops of Bay Area startups; when a palette of topsoil or a row of crops goes wrong, it can simply be pulled and replaced. The hermetically sealed apocalypse “grow room” doesn’t allow for such do-overs.
Just the known unknowns are enough to dash any reasonable hope of survival. But this doesn’t seem to stop wealthy preppers from trying. The New York Times reported that real estate agents specialising in private islands were overwhelmed with inquiries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Prospective clients were even asking about whether there was enough land to do some agriculture in addition to installing a helicopter landing pad. But while a private island may be a good place to wait out a temporary plague, turning it into a self-sufficient, defensible ocean fortress is harder than it sounds. Small islands are utterly dependent on air and sea deliveries for basic staples. Solar panels and water filtration equipment need to be replaced and serviced at regular intervals. The billionaires who reside in such locales are more, not less, dependent on complex supply chains than those of us embedded in industrial civilisation.
Surely the billionaires who brought me out for advice on their exit strategies were aware of these limitations. Could it have all been some sort of game? Five men sitting around a poker table, each wagering his escape plan was best?
But if they were in it just for fun, they wouldn’t have called for me. They would have flown out the author of a zombie apocalypse comic book. If they wanted to test their bunker plans, they’d have hired a security expert from Blackwater or the Pentagon. They seemed to want something more. Their language went far beyond questions of disaster preparedness and verged on politics and philosophy: words such as individuality, sovereignty, governance and autonomy.
That’s because it wasn’t their actual bunker strategies I had been brought out to evaluate so much as the philosophy and mathematics they were using to justify their commitment to escape. They were working out what I’ve come to call the insulation equation: could they earn enough money to insulate themselves from the reality they were creating by earning money in this way? Was there any valid justification for striving to be so successful that they could simply leave the rest of us behind –apocalypse or not?
Or was this really their intention all along? Maybe the apocalypse is less something they’re trying to escape than an excuse to realise The Mindset’s true goal: to rise above mere mortals and execute the ultimate exit strategy.
- This is an edited extract from Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff, published by Scribe (£20). To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply
The UK Rothschilds have fled the country their personal plane was seen packing for a long haul abroad
the did this in w w 2
churchill was part of this and had germany invaded
which was NEVER part of hitlers plan
Churchill had a lauxury underground hideout bunker built in the canadian rockies
this is now a base for examination of crashed UFOs
Their problem is that they think what is now “normal” will continue to be “normal” but this is an incorrect assessment. The Earth is evolving and humans must evolve in accordance with the planet.
Those rich men are blinded by what has been “normal” in the past, but that is not the future. The future is higher in volcanic gases to begin with. The rich men should have been grateful for what they had, but as they were never satisfied they will now pay the price.
Think of this as an excellent business if you’re young and have any construction experience at all.
In the 1950s it was bomb shelters, now it’s underground hideaways with the full rack of frozen/freeze dried food and all the comforts of home.
Can’t be difficult… and you can charge a fortune!
Life is too short to spend precious moments of it reading guff from the MSM.
In my humble opinion there will not be any catastrophic systems collapse. If there were there would be world wide anarchy and chaos. And what are the top dogs most fixated on? Control of course but you cannot control chaos. Ergo…
No, I predict ( drum roll here LOL ) that the system will be kept afloat BUT everything will simply get more and more expensive and certain things will become unavailable thus making life harder and harder for us plebs.
If there is prepping to be done it should be done with that in mind. So fellow truthers let’s get busy 🙂
I gave up about one third through.
Money as we know, will mean nothing after the SHTF.
All these billionaires will die, with 98/99% of the thicko sheeple.
Most of their bunkers are in the wrong locations, just a the US built deep mountain tunnels, they won’t save anyone.
Some sheeple will survive, provided that the micronova is similar to previous events.
I was watching a Suspicious Observers video a few weeks ago, and it was an update of where its best to be. They covered everywhere, accept Russia and China. Now was this through political fear, or do these countries do well?
My guess is that they do well, because Russia is huge, it will suffer less deluge. China is largely protected by island groups, so less deluge.
The US is in a bad situation, just as Western Europe is. And remember, Norway was once, for a short period, on the new equator.
So thicko sheeple tech nerds ask thicko clueless Guardian hack for advice.
Go back to the Carrington event. This was a so, so CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) in the 1890s. Telegraph cables cought fire. Today, we have a much weaker magnetic field, so a Carrington level event would fry all out tech. Maybe just part of the planet would be affected, but maybe all the planet. A big CME will send us back to the stone age, and a micronova is literally the ‘great reset, where nearly all surface life is wiped out. And to set this in context, the natural state of this planet is very, very cold. Maybe this is what Trump was referring to when some stupid presstitute asked him a global warming question, & Trump said, “believe me, its going to get colder’, or something like that.
The elites know what’s coming, they just need to keep pulling the wool over the thicko sheeple’s eyes long enough to keep the show on the road.
If this account is true, I’m amazed Roshkoff is still alive.
Just like the fantasy of living in space and on other planets, this is all fiction, and for the same reasons. You’ll run out of food, water and air. And if nuclear bombs fall you’ll be irradiated, just like in space. Just like living on other planets, when you supposedly emerge from your tomb, you’ll be the only living thing, and nothing can live in isolation because that’s not how creation works. The main thing to notice from all this is that the people who control you are more willing to spend the money they steal from you on a pedo hole than on helping the starving and destitute, and so they are just like you.
As for these billionaire ‘preppers’ having luxury underground bunkers custom built for themselves, check out this statement the Lord spoke to the prophet Ezekiel around 2500 years ago:
“Say thou thus unto them, Thus Saith the Lord God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.” Ezekiel 33:27 in the King James Version
Most rich people will not survive well unless plenty of ordinary people survive also to carry on doing the jobs the rich avoided doing themselves by paying others to do them. They eat well but other people cook the food, they have nice cars but only occasionally drive themselves, while nannies and boarding schools mostly bring up their kids. And these are the people who soon call the unemployed work-shy.
Survival to most people means living through a doom-laden event, but to the rich few just to survive the event would be only the start of a tumultuous time of labours that will try most beyond what they can take. The few who’ve had a military career should do OK, but those who went into other establishment careers like the City or law or the Church are unlikely to do well at all, even with top-grade preps.
no other society is so secure like
a tribe of same blood, race, mind .
it is impossible to fix today arteficialy
a secure functioning society like once
tribes + clans were . today all society
is mixed + feels not any obligation to
others . even a religious binding is
arteficialy ! nothing is thicker than
BLOOD !
the rich have already outcasted themself
from rest of society from the beginning .
and the poor majority never would accept
them as brothers . you RICH FOOK YOU !
@Carl Jones
It’s funny you should mention CMEs.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/475/20220902-coronal-hole-faces-earth.html
Read the Bible book of Revelation to see what is really going to happen on this earth to the people who inhabit it, including the rich men. It tells all about how the rich men will be weeping when Babylon the great falls. I won’t speculate about which institution that is, but see Chapter 18 of Revelation: Verse 11 states, “And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more.”
Rev. 16:15-17 states: “And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of HIS wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
Isaiah 2:19-21 states, “And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of HIS majesty, when HE arises to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of HIS majesty, when HE arises to shake terribly the earth.”
with the radiation leak at chernobyl all the sheep on the welsh mountains had to be killed
what is often forgotten is the large radiation cloud about any leak, means as the world revolved we all get a share
Pres kennedy wanted to send nuclear inspectors into demona in israel
so they murdered bim but as vanunnu said israel has had several very serious radiation leaks
Satanic game-theory: seek solace in socialized-self (group)…
Guaranteed to fail when the source of Armageddon reveals its true form.
There are not enough intelligently engineered materials in the substrate of your material-sequestration to afford you “protection” on a level commensurate with your financial “aloofness” from the rest of us, bitch!
Those who survive any catastrophe will find thereafter survival itself is incredibly labour intensive and time consuming. Just lugging enough water back to your location once your water supply is consumed will be a huge task. Then it has to be filtered after perhaps allowing any sediment to settle, with enough water for your whole group’s needs, so securing enough safe water will on its own seem like a mini-industry.
Once society fails and its “luxuries” taken for granted are no more, we’ll be back to the rigours of survival endured every day by our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors. It will also be a brutal time, what some refer to as WROL (without rule of law), and not all of us will want to struggle on. Many will rather give up.
It wasn’t publicised much, but prior to the pandemic, New Zealand actually banned non-citizens from buying up land – such was the demand by the rich trying to escape the collapse of the United States.
Subheading mentions ‘societal meltdown’.
Excellent. For only chaos (economic/societal meltdown/axis shift/comet hit etc) can create the conditions necessary for the overthrow of the anti-white Zionist-Communist-Christian State & elimination of the scum. This will provide the opportunity for a white fascist paramilitary force to materialize (like from Pink Floyd’s movie ‘The Wall’) & establish a new order, based upon the guidance & teachings of the Aryan Adepts from the A.A. (Army of Aiwass). And then my disciples, the world is ours.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Article wrote, “Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.”
Perhaps this is a quaint reminder of? The Apocalypses of Saint John (Revelation) 6:15-17 KJV – And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
They turn to everyone but the Source and Giver of life. – John 10:10 KJV, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
slave888: I’ve said quite a bit about CMEs and micronova events on here, but most aren’t bothered, because their beliefs are largely based on their personal prejudices, so when you start looking at global events in conjunction with the ultimate natural events, which are totally beyond human control, their arguments fall apart.
I think current events on Earth are in part driven by their understanding of approaching catastrophes, which could be a series of events which nobble the human race before the final kill off.
Thank you Jim Yost and Ann Blue. “Let God be true and every man a liar.”
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1:2.
To go through all of this, and if somehow you do survive, you will most certainly die another day, is insanity.. No matter who you are or what your world view may be, or how much money you have, we will all die and face the Holy God, the one to whom this world belongs, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, and we can face him only one of two ways, we can face him as our Judge or we can face him as our Redeemer.
“For this is life eternal, that they may know You, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” John 17:3.
What we all need most urgently right now is a right relationship with God. This world was never meant to go on forever. It will not improve and improve on into eternity once this battle is over. Things will only get worse and worse.
There will be a New Heaven and a New Earth. This world will perish, and those who are haters of God and His Christ, God’s beloved Son, will see eternal punishment. For Heaven’s sake and for your own sake, read the Bible!
“Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause,God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
2 Thessalonians 9-12
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God”. Matthew 6:33
“The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15.
“Behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2.
What we all should be prepping urgently for is Christ’s second coming, when He comes in judgment.
Oh no, millions of white Christian-Communist cretins won a war (WWII) so the subhuman insane Jews could rule the world & are now wondering why the world is a polluted dump overpopulated with billions of simian subhumans…lol
Follow me & I will make a new man & world upon the ruins & skulls of the old.
A.A.
So those big shots have been building lavish survival compounds and think they have most of the bases covered, yet the biggest uncertainty for those corporate jackals is, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” There’s the onion, eh? How to keep the gun-toting SEALS and SAS boys and other well-trained, heavily-armed homicidal mercenaries from just slitting the throat of Mr. Big Shot, taking over the compound, and banging the daylights out of his trophy wife? Hahahaha That shows you how callously clueless and narcissistic those corporate titan a**holes are. They can make billions, but can’t cultivate a healthy relationship.
Those money-grubbing c*nts utterly fail in having any grasp of the human factor, for which the author gave them the most viable and sensible solution, “The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now,” Well, there’s a novel idea; start treating people really well, like right away, especially those who you are going to rely on to watch your back and protect all your shit when society has a total meltdown, which could be any minute now.
“Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes…”. “The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind.” .. They rolled their eyes at the thought of building critical relationships, at paying people handsomely, a drop in the bucket compared to their wealth, now to let the guys who are going to guard them they’re valued? They think shock collars are a better idea than decency and appreciation and that locks are going to keep trained operators out of the pantry? F*cking clueless a**holes.
I hope I’m one of the guys that eats their food and bangs their trophy wife, while they sit and watch and starve with a shock collar on.
Analysis:
Rushkoff is admits that he is a “Marxist media theorist” . Therefore, he most certainly is an appendage to the entire Western disinformation network, and you have to doubt the veracity of everything he says. If he was an independent journalist (if there is such a thing anymore) he would name names. That’s right, just say who the rich and important people were that he met with. But despite the fact that only two of the five were billionaires, and if we were to accept that these people were worthy representatives of the ruling establishment, and supposedly in the know, then why would they ever go to a Marxist idealist for advice on how to survive the alleged coming crash of the planet?
In this very strange meeting (sounding more and more like something out of Rushkoff’s imagination) he allegedly said to them, “Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. ” In response he says, “they rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.” But with such a predictable response from such a fellow why would they meet with him in such off-beat circumstances unless it was to tell him something?
All of this seems like more FUD – contrived fear, uncertainty and doubt for what is really to come very shortly. Rushkoff says, “Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us.” But notice, these are the very fake and orchestrated perils which have been created by the top-down establishment order to usher in their technocratic and totalitarian NWO, no doubt controlling these “five super-wealthy guys …. from the upper echelon of the tech investing and hedge-fund world”. We have to ask why Rushkoff pumps this nonsense? Is he also an emissary for the top-down order, a leading honcho in the network of the international socialists to assist in carrying out the next act of the official NWO narrative?
He says, “Never before have our society’s most powerful players assumed that the primary impact of their own conquests would be to render the world itself unliveable for everyone else.” Sorry, but the world has not been rendered unlivable, and not likely to be. What is happening is that we are being compressed into the top-down control grids created by the ruling establishment in order to usher in their NWO agendas and resets.
They are working on a timetable and after getting the ball rolling with things like 9/11 for the surveillance state, massive economic destabilizations to make the masses dependent on the bankster handouts, and their plandemic to end our basic rights and freedoms, they are simply not going to turn back. Clearly they do not care what we know or say. They intend to keep supressing into absolute submissions and if there is any substance to this article we can expect even worse theatrics this Fall.
If it were true that such a meeting occurred as Rushkoff describes, then the interest of such jet setters in listening to such a man, would more likely be what they could expect from the left if the ruling elites were deliberately to crash the economy with liquidity freezes and personal assets being seized by the banks. Perhaps the purpose of the meeting was also to relay through Rushkoff to the Marxist left that when the trouble begins for them to lay low and let the authorities go after the rest of us hitting the streets and rebelling.
When you think about it, the international socialists on the left are total backers of both the technocratic and autocratic NWO agendas and ends, and also of all of the deceptive means to usher them in. They are bedfellows together with the super rich and designers of the NWO with the entire Davos crowd made up of hedge fund and corporate heads and of many billionaires and multi millionaires. They are in fact the NWO and the ROU (the Rest of US) concerned about basic human rights, the integrity of the individual person, and our institutions (the middle masses) are the enemy which has to be fragmented, thinned out, and drained of its wealth and power.
So what we learn from Rushkoff, if such a strange meeting actually occurred, is that we had better batten down the hatches because either the elites are going to cancel our credit and access to money while causing even more shortages and havoc, or they are going to kick off Plandemic #2, or do both, and during the resulting unrest and danger from the various perils and contagions the elites are going to be safe in their gated enclaves and refuges around the world. As soon as you see the rats leaving the ship then you know that things are starting to become unsafe and it all about to go down.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE…actually one I have been hoping for to justify my own suspicions.
Bwahahahaha
I read an article recently re: the (((Rothschilds))) and how at one point in the 1800’s their fiat currency assets had compounded to a point that was approx. 60% of the worlds total REAL asset wealth.
These uber riche are typical of self indulgent idiots who were likely (((insiders))) who f*cked over the lower towers of the pyramid scheme….yet like Jews feel this is their righteous bounty.
This reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith who was an anti social librarian….then a nuclear war struck..and he is alone. He is overjoyed..then accidentally drops his glasses …… steps on them… breaks them..then his whole world and existence changes instananeously .
This article by the author exposes these uber riche @ssholes are very stoopid…full of hubris…and ripe for a shite-kicking.
When SHTF…these delusional clowns will be the first Soylent Green candidates, via there is a substantial number of people are not vaxxed…ergo AWAKE… and via mounting disgust render long overdue justice.
I have spent 20 years developing a stainable area, many people visit, walk all over it, and no one has ever seen it. The whole place is planted with edible plants, weeds and trees (not in rows). only a botanist would recognize the range of foods and medicines. The secret to survival is knowledge, not from the current irrelevant education system, but knowledge from the past, present and future. Survival will not be hidden in a hole in the ground or an unlimited collection of facts, rather a range of abilities that provide a complete understanding and feeling for the environment one expects to exist in.
How can you know the future? nature tells you, ants move eggs up, black cockatoos, frogs croaking, warm seawater, rain is coming.