brainwash the citizens and there's actually a utility to it, it's not all bad, then you have to say to yourself what are they brainwashing us with?

Well at the moment they're brainwashing us with wokeness because they could make it go away. They could make it go away if the CIA or whoever. Here's a phrase that I saw in an article by Jacob Siegel writing for Tablet, and it's called "A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: 13 Ways of Looking at Disinformation." The problem is in our current situation the intelligence entities of the United States have formed working relationships with social media and the news. Now the way they approach it is that they're going to help the news and help social media remove disinformation. So who says no to that?

You go to the news, you say hey we know what's true and what isn't. Wouldn't you like to report true news? What's the news going to say? Of course, of course. Tell us what's true. They might check it but at least they'd want to know what's true. So if you have an entity that is selling itself as the correctors of disinformation they really are in control of your information. You've given them control of your minds because you've decided that some entity can tell you what's true and not true. And believe me they don't know. They don't know. They're just going to tell you a version that they think is to their best interest.

So we have a situation where our media is completely, and here's the phrase I want to read from Jacob Siegel because he said it so well. He said the American press, once the guardian of democracy, was hollowed out to the point that it could be worn like a hand puppet by the U.S. security agencies and party operatives. The media is so hollowed out it could be worn as a hand puppet by the CIA, U.S. security agencies, and party operatives. Perfect. First of all it's great writing because it's visual. Secondly it just captures the entire situation.

Yeah, so we're so addicted to watching the news that we think is real even when we know it's not real we act like it is. I do that every day. I know the news isn't real and I still act like it is, and I can't break myself of the habit. I tell myself well you know I'm working on this assumption or you know it's real until it changes. You know I tell myself ridiculous things. But what I should tell myself is none of it's real because it's not. The facts might be real but the narrative in which it is presented is always artificial.

So I do believe in pausing AI but how in the world do we get AI to be free from the same things that corrupted our media, which is intelligence agencies? How do you keep intelligence agencies from owning AI? Can you? I don't think it's possible because they have more power and they're better at it.

See here, I think this is my speculation. The way intelligence agencies can co-opt social media managers and news people is that when the CIA or somebody like the FBI, somebody official, comes in and meets with you and they say hey let us be partners and let us help you, the first thing you might think is oh I've got a partner, a free partner. Maybe it's free, maybe it's not, but I've got this partner. Like they'll help me. But the trouble is intelligence agencies are never your partner. They're always your boss. They're always your boss. They're never your partner. They might come in as your partner but try to do something they don't want. See how that goes, right?

And some of it is ego. Imagine you're the CEO of whatever news entity and the CIA asked for a meeting. What does that do to your brain? You're in charge and the CIA has to meet with you because it's important to national security and you're important. Yes you're important to national security and you know we really think you're great and we'd like to work with you to help you because you're so important. We'd like to help you be even more effective. And by the way we can tell you some stuff that you wouldn't have known otherwise. Do you like some insider stuff? Would you like to tell your family that you meet with the CIA? Yeah you would. Sounds kind of sexy doesn't it? Makes you look kind of powerful. You'll like it. Let's be partners.

So I don't think they need to force anybody to do anything. I think they just have to associate with them and then people start doing what they want somewhat automatically. Somewhat automatically.

All right, given that the news is not reliable I would like to propose a way of dealing with the news. This is how to deal with the news when you don't believe it's necessarily reliable. I'll call it the working assumption model. The working assumption. Now a working assumption doesn't mean you believe it. It means that the evidence suggests something's true and unless something disproves it, that's your working assumption.

Let me give you some examples. There's no evidence that the Mexican cartels have corrupted the government of the United States in a big way, right? Would you agree? There's no evidence that I'm aware of that the government of the United States is already corrupted by the cartels. I've never seen any evidence of that. However, given what we see, which is a complete lack of interest in dealing with the cartels effectively, my working assumption is that the government is already compromised. I don't know this is true but everything I see supports that working assumption.

So if I said it's true, well then I would be lying because I don't know that it's true. But if I say the most practical working assumption is that the government has already been corrupted, what would you do? How would you act differently? I'll tell you how I would act differently. I would arm up because we might reach a point where these citizens have to get rid of the cartel and the only way that's going to happen is with superior firepower. If the government is out of the game that doesn't mean the game's over. The game isn't over because the government decided to sit it out. Now the game is on and you better arm yourself because the cartels have already wiped out the black gangs. Did you know that?

This is Peter Zeihan's provocative idea. He says that the reason that the murder rate dropped is because the cartels murdered the murderers, the gangs. They just murdered the murderers and took over their business. Have you ever wondered why you don't hear much about the Crips and the Bloods lately? They're dead. Not all of them obviously, but apparently their power has been diminished and completely gutted by the cartels.

Now the cartels are more dangerous in one way even though they murder less, believe it or not. That when the cartel completely owns a place the murder rate goes down. It's only when they don't have control that the murder rate is high. When the murder rate goes down that's when you should worry the most, because that means the cartel already has control.

So working assumption is that our government is already compromised by the cartels. I wo