(2020-04-14) Hunt Inception

Ben Hunt: Inception. We’re going to change the world, you know … you and me.

I would no more give you an Answer than I would infect you with a virus

An Answer is not the solution. An Answer is the problem. An Answer is the disease

Giving you an Answer is what THEY do. It’s what all of the high-functioning sociopaths and political entrepreneurs who control all of the myriad of social institutions that have betrayed us do. Yes, betrayed.

First we’re going to vaccinate ourselves to their Answers, to their False Stories, so that we think for ourselves again. Without this, we will inevitably fall back into the patterns of crony capitalism and obscene financialization that got us here in the first place.

They want to infect you with an Answer. We want to innoculate you with a Process

we’re developing the science of what Isaac Asimov called “psychohistory”, how that gives us the ability to not only measure the narratives of social control that oligarchic institutions broadcast but also to design effective jamming narratives of our own, how we create a decentralized epistemic community of distributed trust and mutual support that we call the Pack, how we burn down these oligarchic institutions from below by jamming their Answers and from within by replacing the current sociopathic leadership with members of the Pack. (tribe)

Five facets of the way in which we are going to change the world together:

This is the Way

What is the Mandalorian Way? It’s their creed. It’s how they treat their kin and the treatment they expect to receive from their kin.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

The Golden Rule is all you need to know to organize a good and just society. Everything else, all of the rules and principles and books and words and laws that engulf us … ALL of it … is just commentary.

The Golden Rule is the vaccine

Westworld

The wrapper for season 3 is the story of a gigantic computer program called The System, that simulates the lives of every human being and uses that information to favor the promising humans and ignore the flawed.

We’re Doing It Wrong. I want to suggest a different way to think about markets

The market is a bonfire.

Know why they’ve spent BILLIONS of dollars on the world’s most advanced supercomputers? To calculate fire.

It’s an an actor-oriented model and system at massive scale, and I wrote about its potential market application a year and a half ago.

So I want to calculate fire, too, and it no longer costs billions to get the massive computer processing power we need to do it. But the calculation of fire I want isn’t the simulation of a nuclear explosion. The calculation of fire I want is the simulation of a narrative explosion.

Our actor-oriented behavioral model – the equivalent of the laws of atomic physics – is the Common Knowledge (CK) game. Our observational and simulation technology – the equivalent of a real or simulated bomb technology – is Natural Language Processing (NLP). Put them together and you have the Narrative Machine. There, I just told you the most powerful secret I know.

Today we can observe the way in which some narratives infect a lot of people and others don’t, the way in which narratives are born, live and die. Tomorrow we can simulate the life cycle of hypothetical narratives, and we can use that knowledge to take action in narrative-world, both to jam the autonomy-killing Answers of oligarchic systems and to promote the empathy and reciprocity-promoting Old Story of the Golden Rule. (Culture Jam)

Forgive. But Never Forget.

That’s the tagline for the Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation, the most powerful artifact of remembrance I’ve ever experienced. This is a memorial to the 200,000 French citizens who were deported to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France.

As you leave the hallway to return to the living you see the inscription: Forgive, but never forget.

My father took me there when I was 12 years old. He read the inscription to me, told me what it meant. It vaccinated me for the rest of my life. Thanks, Dad.

Forgive … full hearts. Never forget … clear eyes.

It’s not an Answer. It’s a Process.

Some will absorb this memetic vaccine through a series of tweets. Some will absorb this memetic vaccine through a blog. Some will absorb this vaccine through a movie or a TV series.

The Narrative Machine will show us what works, and for whom. And that’s where we will be. Supporting that. Amplifying that. Rewrapping that. And over time, over the next five years … ten years … twenty years … it will ALL change

The revolution will NOT be televised. The revolution will happen invisibly, within a critical mass of our individual hearts. The way all true revolutions happen.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death made me feel the same way I felt in October 2008, when the US Treasury put the full faith and credit of the United States behind the unsecured debt of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan and Bank of America, when the pleasant skin of “Yay, democracy!” was sloughed off to reveal the naked sinews of power beneath. The same way I feel now in April 2020. When Jeffrey Epstein died in that jail cell, I realized that the people in that room of violence and power and wealth will never be defeated on a single point of failure like his testimony at trial. Or like the bankruptcy of AIG. Or like the election this November.

So what do WE do? We DO unto others as we would have them do unto us. And by so doing we create a million points of failure for the system of sociopathic oligarchy. We create points of failure AT SCALE.

So here’s what you can DO on your own.

First, find your pack (tribe). Find your partners. Find the people who will treat you as an autonomous (agency) human being worthy of respect and empathy, not as a means to an end. There is no more important thing any human being can do to create a life worth living than to find their pack

Second – and here’s where all of the Answer viruses really go into high gear shutting down brains – devote yourself to a life of Making, Protecting and Teaching within and around your pack. See yourself with clear eyes through those lenses, through the DOING of Make, Protect, Teach, and watch how your world begins to change. ((2019-09-11) Hunt The Long Now Pt2 Make Protect Teach)

Free Will Is Not Free

The Golden Rule is the formal description of empathy. The Golden Rule is the only law of the Pack. The Golden Rule IS the full hearts of Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose. ((2018-10-02) Hunt Clear Eyes Full Hearts Can't Lose)

The Golden Rule is the meme that we’re going to inject in a mass-customized way straight into everyone’s veins with the Narrative Machine.