Van Harvey

Say something nice about the UK.

Yes, I am the new Ayatollah.

What is the American version of Godzilla? And you can’t say AOC.

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Justice for the Gays of Hormuz

Not only will Iranians die of thirst because of the destruction of the heavy water plant, they will die of hunger from the destruction of yellowcake

Los Angeles County sees largest population decline in the U.S. The Gavin Newsom Effect continues.

In the architecture of human civilization, there has been a long campaign of subjugation and power consolidation over many generations and even eras. The move away from a foundation of Ontology (the study of being, or what a thing inherently is) and toward a constructed projection of Will (the assertion of what we want a thing to become - including, or especially, ourselves!). Across every sector (politics, religion and technology) the same two-step tactic repeats: Step 1 - Sever from Reality (Voluntarism): Truth becomes interpretation, meaning becomes fluid and nature becomes irrelevant (at best) and rejected (at worst). This liquefies the old order. Step 2 - Reground in Choice (Voluntaryism): Once reality is gone, order is rebuilt on constructs of ‘consent’. Obligation becomes optional and legitimacy is reduced to a contract or a ‘transactional consent’. To the unformed mind, driven only by desire and autonomous will, this feels like liberation; freedom, flexibility and empowerment. In reality, it is disintegration. When nothing is fixed and nothing binds unless chosen, the individual is left without a shared, knowable reality to stand upon. You are ‘free’ in this appetite driven Regime only as long as you remain a compliant participant in the system. With ‘truth’ reduced to will-driven interpretation there is no objective floor, no protection against power. Moral law becomes expressive (a way to signal identity) rather than binding regardless of identity and belief. The internal shift of the will toward ‘curated reality’ provides the psychological groundwork for an external shift in how we participate in society through technology and markets - and crucially - how we are incentivized (or penalized) for doing so. Voluntaryism provides the mask; you are told your participation is ‘optional’ because you clicked ‘I agree’. However, The System operates on Voluntarism; The Operators continuously redefine the rules, update policies and restrict access based on their own will, not in accord with and what is binding on all, for They are ‘above & beyond’. ‘They’ now occupy that which transcended and has been rejected by the Consumer Mindset at large. The stakes of this Consumer Mindset are still unrecognized and unacknowledged by most - which ‘They’ continue to fully exploit while that ignorance and wilful blindness persists. Voluntarism and voluntaryism sound very similar - understand their distinction, their symbiosis and their manifestation skin suiting all Politics, movements within Faith, Economic Theories & all Ideologies. Remember that what the American Founders established was prior to all of that, not the product of any of it.

Let’s have a look at McChrystal, The Trust Foundation, and the Architecture of Managed Consent— what happens when COIN doctrine comes home — and why that question matters in a constitutional republic. General Stanley McChrystal — architect of JSOC’s “Team of Teams” model, the same decentralized targeting framework that dismantled insurgent networks in Iraq and Afghanistan — is listed as a strategic advisor to The Trust Foundation. This is on their own website. Not inference. Not pattern-matching. Their own language. The Trust Foundation frames its mission around what it calls a “trust crisis” in American civil society — rebuilding social cohesion through catalytic community and networks of networks. That vocabulary should be immediately recognizable to anyone who has studied McChrystal’s doctrine. In Team of Teams, he argued that defeating a decentralized adversary required mirroring that adversary’s structure — shared consciousness, trust-not-control, distributed execution within a unified command intent. The language is nearly identical. The question is: who holds the command intent now? This Isn’t Theoretical — We Have a Test Case: Before asking where McChrystal’s frameworks are headed, it’s worth examining where they’ve already been — domestically. In 2020, McChrystal was linked to Defeat Disinfo, a Democratic-aligned political action committee that deployed AI-driven network analysis — built on open-source technology incubated with DARPA funding originally designed to counter ISIS propaganda — against the sitting President of the United States and his supporters . As Unconstrained Analytics documented, the system used artificial intelligence to map Trump’s statements to social media discussion groups and the individuals participating in them. In intelligence parlance, that’s a collection effort. Except the targets weren’t al-Baghdadi’s networks. They were American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights within a constitutional republic . The mechanism Defeat Disinfo used was the F3EAD cycle — Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, Disseminate — the same targeting architecture McChrystal refined hunting terrorists in Mesopotamia . The “finish” in this context wasn’t kinetic. It was narrative: identify the most resonant counter-messages, then pay influencers to “intervene” in the President’s official communications by boosting them across a network of 3.4 million accounts . That’s not fact-checking. That’s information warfare dressed in the language of civic health. The Trust Foundation’s Role Co-founder Jordan Hall — formerly Jordan Greenhall — is the primary architect of Game B, a post-institutional framework for what he calls “collective intelligence” and “cultural evolution.” The Santa Fe Institute, which received funding from Jeffrey Epstein, has served as a hub for the complexity-science thinking that undergirds Game B’s theoretical framework. I am not asserting Hall had any knowledge of or direct relationship with Epstein — I am noting the intellectual ecosystem in which these ideas were incubated and who financed access to it. Precision matters here, because imprecision is the tool of the people we’re examining. What is documentable is the framework itself: Game B does not propose restoring the constitutional structures that made ordered liberty possible. It proposes evolving beyond them — guided cultural emergence, new sensemaking infrastructure, collective intelligence that supersedes what Hall regards as the brittle, “legacy” institutional forms. In a constitutional republic, where sovereignty derives from the consent of individual citizens operating under rule of law, that framing isn’t reform. It’s replacement. The Synthesis to Watch (IMO) Here is where the architecture becomes visible. McChrystal’s Group has spent years marketing “Team of Teams” principles to corporations, NGOs, and now civic institutions. The Trust Foundation applies those principles to the specific problem of post-COVID, cont👇🏻

Oh boy. It can take a bit of work to wrap your head around Libertarianism, since you are well versed in all that is Wokeism and Classic American Liberalism we can shorthand a bit here. 👍 1. Libertarianism comes from the same intellectual source as both the Woke Left and Woke Right…German Idealism and Cartesian Skepticism. In essence it fundamentally refutes the Creator as our author of our Natural Rights from the very basis of the properties of the Human Being (Imago Dei) for willful voluntarism or rational acts. What they call Praxeology. Rights and the moral order are human contracts not inalienable to our being. All forms of Wokeness carry this attribute. It’s way more in depth than this but at a high level you can see the intellectual lineage. Woke Left: Kant > Hegel > Marx > Marcuse > Kimberle Crenshaw Woke Right: Kant > Schmitt > Buchanan > Dugin > General Flynn Woke Libertarian: Kant > Rothbard > Hoppe > Ron Paul 2. More specifically for Libertarianism you have Mises, Hayek, Rothbard and Hoppe. While Mises and Hayek are “less problematic” they are the gateway to the more radical Rothbard and Hoppe which well cover mostly here. 3. All forms of Wokeness have an oppressor. Woke Left: Capitalists, Men, White people, normativity, ect. Woke Right: The Postwar Liberal Consensus, Egalitarianism, Progressivism, Classic American Liberalism, the Constitution, etc. Woke Libertarianism: The Nation State, the Globalist State, the United States of America, etc. This Libertarianism gets from Rothbard and Hoppe. It needs to be clearly expressed. Woke Libertarianism holds the United States of America as established in the Constitution as >illegitimate<. All efforts of a Woke Libertarian (like Dave Smith) is to delegitimize the United States. 4. Hoppe (who studied under the Marxist Habermas) is where we run into the antisemitic, racist, white nationalist component of Woke Libertarianism. Since they don’t believe in the Nation State what would replace it? Well a series of contractual communes or enclaves. This can be formulated around any premise so long as it is consented to. It can be a political commune, religious commune…or even a racial or ethnic commune. Enter the white nationalist “Libertarian”. Which of course is going to include antisemitism amongst other racist and discriminatory dispositions. But that’s not all. For Woke Libertarianism Israel and Palestine represent a Libertarian ideological proxy or allegory. Israel represents the oppressive Globalist Nation State. Palestine the religious and ethnic commune alienated by the evil Nation State. Israel of course a proxy of the even larger and more evil Globalist State of which the United States is the most powerful member. 5. Multipolarity then for Libertarianism is a means to an end. By teaming up with the Duginite Post-Liberals they work together to diminish the influence of Israel and the United States. While they have different end goals they are unified in the antisemitic, anti-United States Multipolar active measure. This doesn’t of course account for their technocratic operations to remove Natural Law as the basis of American governance and individual liberty.