8 February 2025 — Notes form the Circus
[Creepy stuff and if true, frightening! WB]
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America
As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government. Inside the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial intelligence systems. Civil servants who raise legal objections are being removed. Government databases are being migrated to private servers. Decision-making power is being transferred from elected officials and career bureaucrats to algorithms controlled by a small network of Silicon Valley elites. This isn’t a spontaneous coup—it’s the culmination of a dangerous ideology that has been meticulously developed since the 2008 financial crisis, one that sees democracy itself as obsolete technology ready to be “disrupted.” To understand how we reached this critical moment, and why it threatens the very foundation of democratic governance, we need to trace the evolution of an idea: that democracy is not just inefficient, but fundamentally incompatible with technological progress.
Katsukawa Shunshō (Japan), Japanese Women Reading and Writing, c. 1776.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L ) and US President Donald Trump at their last meeting, Osaka, Japan, 28–29 June 2019 
The New Dark Age 