The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis

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December 18, 2025

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The Technocratic Dark State

Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship

with Iain Davis

“In The Technocratic Dark State, Iain Davis has managed to fit the colossal private ship of modern criminal imperialism, fully assembled and illuminated for inspection, within a single glass bottle.”

~ John Titus
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The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship by Iain Davis

 
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Solari Report. My name is John Titus. I’m the co-host and co-producer of Money and Markets with Catherine Austin Fitts. I also have my own video channels on several platforms, YouTube, Odyssey, and Bitchute. That channel is called Best Evidence on All three Platforms. This special report of the Solari Report. This production in fact, is going to appear on best evidence my channels, one month after posting on Solari dot com, which will happen on December 18th for Solari and roughly January 18th of next year on, on my channel. Today I am joined. By Iain Davis, who has just published a terrific new book called The Technocratic Dark State Trump AI and Digital Dictatorship. I can tell you, as I told Iain when we talked about this book, it’s one of two books that I’ve read cover to cover in the last 20 years. It is absolutely masterful summary of what the tech bros have been up to. I’ve been watching ’em what are they up to? This Iain’s book nails it and describes in excruciating detail what they’ve been doing over the last 20 years and really beyond. There’s several examples from the late nineties where everything fits into place when you read this book and the book is very thoroughly researched and very well written. Iain understands how to write and it paints a very dark picture of the digital plantation that we’re all headed for unless we get together and slam on the brakes. To avoid the nightmare described in his title, the title of the book, the Digital Dictatorship, Iain is here today. I’m pleased to report to talk about this book. When you see Iain, you will notice that he has two i’s and so does the spelling of his name, Iain. It’s IAIN Iain Davis, a name you will want to familiarize yourself with. You can find Iain’s work@iaindavis.com. Iain’s published work has also appeared@offguardian.org and unlimited hangout.com, as well as UK calm.org. Iain is also a member of the Independent Media AllIaince, along with Catherine Austin Fitts and James Corbert and Richard Grove, among others. Iain, welcome to the Solari Report. Thank you very much for inviting me, John. It’s a pleasure to be here. It’s good to talk to you in person and do an interview. This is my first ever interview that I’ve done. For my website or for my YouTube channel, for my video channels. It’s also the first interview I’ve done for Solari dot com. So you’re my first interviewee. You have to take it easy on me. But it’s a pleasure to talk to you. ’cause I really your book really your book helped me understand the world. Cause I tended to ignore these guys. These guys, these tech bros annoy me. I’ll get into that. And this book really describe, I should not be annoyed. I should be paying a lot more attention. Your book has helped me. But let me cut right to, I wanna go right to my favorite part of the book, which addresses money creation. This is the part where it’s oh, okay, I get it now. But let me say this. The people with the power to create money at a thin air, they’re in control now. They’ve been in control for several centuries. Their private parties. And so my initial question is why do they why do these, the old money people, let’s call ’em, even tolerate the tech bros who are offering crypto schemes, especially stable coins, to compete with the money issuance of banks and central banks, frankly, why? In other words, why don’t the monetary powers that be just used in the US the Department of Justice to snuff out these would be tech bro competitors the same way they killed prosecutions and investigations into Wall Street in the wake of the global financial crisis? What, in other words, what are the tech bros offering to the old money powers that those powers don’t have already? Yeah they’re offering essentially they’re offering a workaround for the US Constitution. They. The plan is clearly that they want an international, a digitally, a tokenized digital, international monetary and financial system. And in most places around the world we have fully independent central banks. So if we look at, for example, the European Central Bank, it’s in there, it’s in there, found in documents that they literally state, no, no government has any control over us whatsoever. In fact, I think it’s part of their documentation where they say, we will not take any advice from any government. So they are firmly independent, other central banks around the world. Certainly if we look at the Bank of England, that’s independent by virtue of its royal charter.
Where that situation exists.
And if we then look at and if we then look at who controls Central Bank, those kind of independent central banks, it’s the private sector, it’s the, it’s generally the major shareholders of the leading commercial banks. But nonetheless, while that situation exists, they can create an independent, privately controlled, tokenized digital, international monetary and financial system. The situation is not quite the same in the US as your excellent research pointed out because constitutionally speaking, the issuance of currency is theoretically controlled by the people through Congress. So you can’t have this total control of this tokenized digital monetary system using a central bank digital currency.
With the US and obviously the US is probably the most
important economy in the world. It’s got the world reserve currency or the dominant reserve currency. And so that’s a problem that, that is a problem if you want a privatized, tokenized digital, international, monetary and financial system. What the the tech bros that I refer to in the book as neo nerds. What they have offered is a workaround through stable coins. And the Trump administration has most certainly obliged with the Genius Act because the Genius Act by determining that these stable coins are not a national currency and they’re not an asset class, therefore they’re not subject to oversights by the Securities And Exchange Commission has set these firmly outside the reach of, in this case, Congress and the Constitution. But they are, they’re called payment stable coins. They are backed the they’re effectively backed one to one by the dollar through treasuries and other dollar instruments. They are in every single practical sense. A digital US dollar, they can be exchanged one for one for the dollar. Internationally. Stable coins, if I’m understand what you’re saying correctly, they spend just like money in our bank account. Yeah. They’ll be spent just like that. They’ll be used just as you would use, just as you would use the dollar. Now you can purchase goods with it and even to the extent that, which, that they’ve got bridging systems now, which is something that the bank, bank of international settlements has been very keen to to put into place bridging payment systems that enables you to use a digital dollar as you would use the dollar if you had a bank payment card and paid for a product or service. In the High Street or on Main Street. So it’s not just about online transactions. You’ll also be able to spend them via intermediary payment service providers. In a in a shop or in a store. So that, that, that’s such a great point that ultimately what the tech bros are offering to the powers that be is an end run around the constitution. So right now, under the currently configured US monetary system, we, the people in theory and legally we have some measure of control over the money issuing entities both over the Fed at the wholesale level and over the banks, the commercial banks through the FDIC and through the office of the ER currency. What you were talking about with stable coins and with crypto is the money issuance from private entities. And I know this because in fact I’ve been trying to learn about stable coins and crypto and so I’m like okay, I’ll just go to legal treatises and start reading case law. On stable coins and exchanges and all the rest, and there is no case law. It is completely private, it is completely dark, and transparency is an issue that we’re gonna touch on later in this interview. But that’s great. But don’t, is there is one other feature of the monetary control and stable coins and digi and digital money and tokenized money that is offering an advantage to the old line money powers. And that is, from where I’m sitting, it doesn’t digital money, fully digital money offer to the powers that be a way of controlling debt that might otherwise spiral out of control irreversibly and fatally. No, absolutely. And I would suggest that’s very much why they are so desperate to get this new international monitoring financial system up and running. Because if we look at let’s say that the estimated officially acknowledged global debt is 320 trillion, and of which about 40 trillion, I dunno what it was this morning, but 39 trillion or whatever it was, is US debt. US public debt. That’s public debt, not private debt. Yeah. Yeah. Not private debt. Yeah, just public debt. So then if you look at the if you then add into that the nominal value of the potential debt in the derivatives market, then you’re looking at, some people say one quadrillion, some people say. Who it’s it’s debatable what that is because as is, as was noted when they looked at what happened during the 2008 financial crisis, much of that trading is over the counter. And I think the investigating committee that looked into it, which might have been the FIDC, I can’t remember that looked into it, actually said that this is it’s unknown trading. We dunno, it’s not talking about transparency. There isn’t any They don’t know it. It’s so in other words, you don’t ever really know at any given time what the money supply is, how big the money supply is. Yeah. Now somebody knows, but it’s not anybody in the public who knows. And so this, when I read this in your book, I was like this is, this explains a lot because I’d seen LAR review article by someone nominated to be the head of the office of the comp, control of the currency here in the us. Then the LAR review article said, listen, when debt, because money is issued, is debt and debt can get outta control. One thing you can do with a central bank digital currency, which is an alternate form of what we’re talking about with stable coins, what you can do is you can simply delete money out of people’s accounts. Yeah. And so it’s a system of total. Control that you’re describing in your book? Yeah. No, it’s, it is total control. You can delete money, you can set the duration on money. You can control where and when it is spent sim simply through programming it, through literally programming it. And one of the great ironies I think from a us the population’s perspective in terms of electing Trump is that he made a great deal of opposing central bank digital currency because quite rightly, a sizable number of the population were very concerned about that, and rightly absolutely. But what he’s offered. Instead what he’s gone ahead and done instead through an executive order, which is one of the first things that he announced when he first came into office is to create the, for want of a better expression, the enabling environment, the legal, like enabling environment for stable coins, which are arguably worse. They’re worse. I was, one of the questions though, why are they worse? Why are they, because it relates right back to what you were saying earlier, because there’s no oversight, there’s no control. They’re privately issued there’s no control of them. Where, and I think because I asked myself a question and it was really in researching this book that I think I’ve answered that question for myself and hopefully for others, is that I couldn’t understand why the US wasn’t on board with Central Bank Digital Currency. I was thinking, what’s going on? Why are they your work? Actually, yeah. Started making me think ah there’s a problem here with the constitution. And then I looked at that as well, and then it, then I rea ah, this, that, that’s why the US has never been really on board with Central Bank Digital currency because of this problem. They’ve been dragging their feet of co compared to everybody else in the, across the globe. Yeah. So that sort of wraps up why tolerate the tech bros? What are they up to? What do they offer the old line powers to be? I wanna move on to a concept you discuss. And that I thought was bogus for a long time. I thought it was a buzzword. Your book discusses interoperability at length. Before I read your book, I thought that was simply interoperability. That’s another buzzword, but it really isn’t. So why don’t you tell us what interoperability is and what crucial functions does it perform? This goes to the heart of deceit which is a big theme in the book. Basically interoperability links. What they call disparate data sets. Now, those data sets could be pertaining to anything. So it could be a data set of digital identity or a data set of a digital ID product, which is a separate card such as the REAL ID system, although that is linked in the US to Ient, which is a, which is the kind of bigger overarching system. Or it could be financial, it could be a financial tokenized product. For example, if you think about your driving license is issued that is controlled by the issue of the driving license. It is not linked to your bank card. Your bank card is issued by a private commercial bank or a payment provider. The two things are not linked. They’re not linked. What? Interoperability. And if you look at what the Bank for International Settlements has been doing over the last 10 or more years, it has been obsessed with this notion of interoperability, creating an interoperable system. What that means is the data set from your driving license so that everybody’s can be linked via. Usually via software such as Palantir, Gotham or something like that, to the data set from your bank card. Your bank card. So these two things can now be linked into one unified. The, what they’re looking to do that is is a unified ledger of some sort, whether that’s gonna be blockchain or some other form of ledger, while interoperability is in its infancy. So is just security awareness. And I think unfortunately interoperability is accelerating a little faster than security awareness. And so it’s being done in a dangerous way in a lot of times. That’s an interesting point because EMRs. Electronic medical record systems have security controls, but what it boils down to is the person setting this thing up, doing it correctly. Have they turned on the right settings and turned off the wrong settings? And the, i the answer according to these 2000 you says are exposed, obviously, no. Now that what they’re trying, what they have been trying to do on a global scale for this digital, international, monetary and financial system is create interoperability between all currencies, interoperability between all digital currencies. So yet the first thing they need to do is convert the existing fiat currencies into digital forms. So that’s where outside of the US that was very the favorite way of doing that is through, or the favored way of doing that is central bank digital currency in the US For the reasons we’ve just discussed, that was slightly problematic. Therefore it’s stable coins in other parts of the world, it’s deposit tokens, but it all amounts to the same thing. It is the digitization of existing monetary sys of the existing monetary systems whilst maintaining the difference between currency. So you still got a dollar version, a a sterling version, a Euro version, a yen version. You’ve still got this, these different distinctions, but through interoperability and which converts the transactions made into a single unified. Standard for example, for digital information exchange. So one of the things that the BI has worked on quite a lot, I think it’s Project Juno, is to introduce ISO 20022 standards for all financial information exchanges. Now, when in the digital world it’s easy, it’s relatively easy to make transactions in one currency, interoperable with trans, with the transaction in another currency. So if we’re talking about business to business transactions globally, if you are buying goods and services, or if you are buying, say, commodities from, or products, manufactured products from China with the dollar. You don’t have the problem. It, what interoperability does is remove the settlement, the clearing and the settlement, and the delays and the costs that are associated with that and makes the transaction instantaneous across borders. So what that means is if you are purchasing products from China into the us, you can pay in dollars in the us and that will be instantaneously via interoperability received in Rebi or whatever in China, without any kind of sent any, they say, without any kind of intermediary. But of course, there is an intermediary and that is the permission block, universal Ledger, which will be controlled globally. Centrally. Yeah. Isn’t it true that one of the features of stable coins. That being interoperable with the current monetary systems. The stable coins spend spend like dollars. And so they’re interoperable with the monetary system we have now, which is two-tiered, it’s central banks on top and it’s retail banks on the bottom. Doesn’t the interoperability of stable coins with the current system offer to the US powers that be a way to soak up more US debt, which we obviously know is exploding? Yeah, no, absolutely. There in, I mean if you think about the hesitancy that countries have shown in recent years to take on US debt, for example, Japan,
that makes the US debt situation, which is precarious enough as
it is even more precarious. So what’s by issuing your own stable coins, if you like, although these will be privately issued as we’ve said, they can absorb debt. They’re back, they’re backed by, mainly they’re backed by treasury. So they all they can automatically absorb debt. Now the projected value of market cap of for stable coins, I think by 2035, and I may have got that wrong. It might even be sooner. It might even be about 20, 30 is four. I think it’s 2030. Yeah. Yeah. It’s 4 trillion. So that’s 4 trillion of debt that can be siphoned off into, if essentially into a new market, into a new, into the stable coins. And that would be, that’s a market, to be clear, that exists as far away as Senegal. It’s around the world. Yeah. People will be using us stable coins. Yeah. But if you think that the rate at which the debt is in increasing and I think the Trump administration was the first administration to have a $1 trillion deficit within the first quarter.
So that the debt’s going up, cons quite fast.
While stable coins, in my view, offer a short term debt release valve, and they def they definitely do. I think if you look at what they’ve got planned for a globalized, tokenized digital economy, that is ultimately where. Debt will be absorbed. It will just be consumed.
Currently if they’re, if the tokenized economy that, that, that is envisaged
certainly by the bank for international settlements and its International Central Bank partners, if they if that achieves the potential four to five quadrillion global economy that they are suggesting by tokenizing everything, including us, all of us
then obviously an official debt of around let’s, for argument’s
sake, let’s call it 500 trillion. It’s gone. You, that you’ve solved that problem between if you look at it from a balance sheet perspective currently your liabilities far outweigh your assets, but you just can create new assets out of the thin air by tokenizing everything. And then you flip that on its head and suddenly you haven’t got a debt problem. And you have no problem. There’s no impediment to doing any of this if there’s no transparency. True. Yeah. Yeah. No, none. So there’s no pushback. There’s no feedback loop that we’re talking about here. It’s open loop control by a bunch of technocrats. Buy a bunch of billionaires of the entire population with no, there, there’s the issue of consent goes out the window under what you’re talking about, which is digital dictatorship. True. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted talk to on that note about the, really the first part of the book the indeed the first chapter. You talk about technocrats and you talk about the dark enlightenment. I think I’m pretty sure people who are watching c and watching my channel best evidence, they have a decent feel for technocracy. And I’ll touch on that in a minute but more importantly now is why don’t you tell us what you mean by dark enlightenment? Because that was a term that was new to me and required some explanation. So what is dark enlightenment? What is that all about? It was a treaties that was written by a UK philosopher, a guy called Nick Land that worked in the cybernetics culture research unit at Warwick University. And they were just toying with the notion of the singularity, which is the the point at which technology becomes self perpetuating and outstrips our ability to adapt to it. And what that might, how humanity might cope with that. So they were very interested in Joseph Schumpeter’s economic idea of creative destruction, which it, which means, which shater applied this purely to markets. But what Shater meant was that a market gets destroyed by technology. For example a very easy one if you think that the market for the steam railway gets destroyed by the diesel engine. That’s a very simple. Analogy but you get the idea. So they thought that creative destruction could apply to all markets for sure, but it could also be, but rather than what Shumer described was an effect of capitalism, either I, capital investment in technological development, created this situation. What they thought was that you could apply that to deliberately cr destroy markets and seen as markets have sociopolitical connotations, the people that control markets monopolists they have sociopolitical power. You could therefore apply this to the wider sociopolitical in the wider sociopolitical sense. So you could literally con, capitalism could be freed up and utilized as a tool to control not just economic activity, but all kind of sociopolitical structures as well. Now that was an idea that they were toying with. But what they then came up with the dark enlightenment is that as a product of that idea, that underlying idea is horrific. So they thought that the singularity presented such a threat to humanity that they, and I’ll have to say that is an assumption. That is an assumption that they made. Therefore, our only solution is to adapt to it. And we can only do that through transhumanism. We have to become genetically engineered cyborgs in order to cope with the assumed approaching singularity that government. Only serves to stifle innovation. And the most important part of creative destruction is that innovation is unfettered and free and allowed to flourish. Therefore, government should be done away with completely. And innovation should be handed to private corporations. Private corporations are, were best placed to undertake this revolution in this global revolution. And therefore private companies private corporations should rule unchallenged and unmolested by any kind of democratic oversight. At its core, the Dark Enlightenment is a political and philosophical movement that challenges some of the foundational ideas of modern society. The term itself was popularized by British philosopher Nick Land in the early 2010s, but the roots go deeper. The core ideas were first developed by American Tech theorist Curtis Jarvin, writing under the pseudonym Mencius Mold Bug. Starting around 2007, through his influential blog, unqualified Reservations, Jarvin laid out a radical critique of democracy liberalism and the modern state proposing instead, a return to centralized hierarchical governance modeled on corporate systems. Vin’s Central argument is that modern civilization, especially in the West, has been steered into stagnation and decline by a rigid, overly idealistic belief in egalitarIainism and mass. Participation. According to this view, democracy is not the pinnacle of political evolution. It is a system that masks inefficiency, encourages manipulation, and creates the illusion of choice without any real control. Jarvin introduced the idea of neoism, a political model in which a nation state functions like a joint stock corporation run by a CEO, accountable only for performance, not popularity. In this model, the government is not elected, but managed like a business to many, it sounds dystopIain to others. It sounds like a brutally honest assessment of how things already work behind the curtain. This worldview also gave rise to one of vin’s most infamous concepts, the cathedral. In his framework, the cathedral refers to the intertwined network of elite institutions, including media, academia, and bureaucracy that shape cultural and political narratives. This system according to Jarvin controls society, not through laws or force, but through ideology, consensus, and cultural pressure. It is not orwell’s boots stomping on a face. It is soft power that feels like truth. Nick Land known for his cyberpunk, fused Accelerationist philosophy, took vin’s ideas and pushed them further Land gave the movement its name, the Dark enlightenment. His writings injected a darker, more philosophical edge. Tying these ideas to themes of posthumanism automation and the collapse of liberal ideals in the face of accelerating technology. Some in this school of thought, advocate for exit strategies. Such as private digital societies, independent city states, or breakaway corporate enclaves where governance is optimized, not voted on. Others envision a world where technology replaces outdated institutions altogether. It is a blueprint for governance in a time of increasing distrust and systemic breakdown. But what makes the Dark Enlightenment truly unsettling is not just its ideas. It is the mirror. It holds up to our current reality. It forces uncomfortable questions. Are we truly free, or are we just choosing between scripted outcomes? Are democratic leaders really accountable, or are they figureheads managed by deeper forces? And if the system is failing, what comes next? These are not conspiracy theories. They are the kinds of questions rising quietly in a culture that feels increasingly unstable. It is important to be clear. The dark Enlightenment is not a mainstream ideology, and many of its conclusions are controversial and provocative. Critics argue it promotes authoritarIainism, social stratification, and a rejection of basic civil liberties. And yet its critiques of political stagnation, media control, and the illusion of democratic power resonate with growing numbers of people who feel the system no longer serves them. The theory is a window into a radical re-imagining of power. One that suggests our current systems might not be sacred, just outdated. You do not have to agree with it, but understanding it might help you recognize where some of the world’s deeper currents are pulling. Stay curious because the future might not look like the past and some people are already coding what comes next. And that’s where all this is headed. And I wanna read a section from chapter one of your book from page 12, because it was so on point and it was like the penny dropped there because this process that you’re talking about, which is hiving off public functionality and basically constitutional sovereign functions, carving them off and distributing them to private parties who are opaque. That’s going on right now. And I wanna read just a couple sentences from the book. The sort of oh, okay, I see what’s going on. Given that Elon Musk was neither elected by Americans nor authorized by the representatives in Congress, the Doge projects represents a formal shift in political power from the public to the private sector. It is fundamentally a private sector dominated, think tech openly empowered to restructure fund federal agencies. And it goes on A technique would afford its leading figures, pecking order privileges. So it’s that this process is already underway. True. Yeah. Yeah. No, it’s and it’s, and I have to say it’s not just in the us It’s everywhere. Yeah. And then it continues. I wanna go on page 13. This gets into technocracy and sort of the more non-obvious features of technocracy. Technocrats. Unelected technocrats rather than politicIains set policy and technocracy is based on the belief that there are technological solutions to awe, social, economic, and political problems. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what we’re seeing going on right now for sure. Yeah. And there is a massive overlap between the dark enlightenment and technocracy. If you look at the dark enlightenment, the way that they suggest that sovereign corporations would be in charge of a realm. And that there would be a patchwork of realms controlled by sovereign corporation. So they’re talking about breaking up the nation state into a patchwork of realms, right? And creating a kind of a kind of network of realms, a patchwork of realms, they call it. If you, if, and that would be totally controlled by sovereign corporations. And the land spoke about this thing called gov Corps, which would be the, it’s not entirely clear, I have to say. One of the reasons that I wrote the book is because most of the things that they say is not entirely clear. So you really have to dig into the weeds of it to figure out. They use a lot of jargon and they use a lot of, they even use words that people don’t even know, like neo caramelization and re territorial and all this sort of jargon that they use. But essentially what it boils down to is smashing the nation’s state apart, carving it up, selling it off. Piecemeal to private corporations, then reconstituting, constituent that into a network. Yep. And then ruling that in a is set, having a centralized authoritarIain control over that, that is what they intend to do. And if you look and if you look at what a tech mate is, that’s pretty similar. Okay. So from an American point of view, what you’re talking about, the net effect of these changes you just discussed, is they want to destroy the consent of the governed. Is that fair? Yeah. They think Lan said that our sovereignty should be treated with derision. Wow. So we are nothing. We are nothing. To the, in their mindset. If that’s right, they wanna destroy the consent of the governed. In other words, you have no sovereignty. Your sovereignty is a joke. You are an asset on our balance sheet. Yeah. Really what you’re talking about from American point of view is just the open repeal of the Declaration of Independence. That’s what the whole Revolutionary War was fought over was. You are ex, you exerting control over us. You’re punitive you punish us, you steal our assets and all the rest. And we have no say of it. We try to have a say and we don’t have any say. And that was what causes revolution. So this is a very it’s ironic, and I’ll get to this in a bit, that it, that an Englishman is writing about the destruction of the Declaration of Independence. Yeah. Why didn’t this book come out of the us? I don’t know. I’m not blaming you or anything anyway. I wanna turn to another subject though. And that’s a gut feel I get when I watch a lot of these tech bros. When I see a guy like Peter Thiel. He can’t get through a sentence without getting tackled to the ground. It’s even simple sentences. He just, he can’t do it. I see Bill, Gates flailing about, talking about topics that he knows absolutely nothing about. Like he’s a supreme authority. I was glad to see in light of that sort of gut reaction you guys are pulling a con on me. My gut feel is I’m being conned here. I’m watching an act. And so I was glad to see in your book, very heavy stress that you put on the topic of deceptions and deception and deceptive practices. Talk about the role of deception and what the role it plays. And maybe a couple of examples of deception that we see in real time from the dark net technocrats such as ChristIainity and their push for the push in ChristIainity here or libertarIainism there. Te tell us about the role deception plays in those ultimately con jobs. If you think about what you’ve just noted there about the Dark Enlightenment, the idea that it essentially just destroys the Declaration of Independence and everything it means to be a sovereign individual, human being. It’s the end of it. That’s what they’re, that’s what they’re talking about. And yet the people that say they support this, I have a slight segue here. I did question in the book whether they really believe in things like the dark enlightenment. They openly support it. People like Mark Anderson said, I am an accelerationist, or no, I’ll rephrase that. He said, we are accelerationist, which means that they believe in the dark enlightenment, but. Whether they actually believe it or whether it’s just expedient to say that they have some sort of quasi intellectual underpinning for what they’re doing. I don’t know. I question that, but nonetheless, they’re openly supporting such a thing as the dark enlightenment, which is just about the most authoritarIain, fascistic kind of model of governance that you could possibly imagine. Why don’t we just come right out and call? It is it’s a plantation. That’s what they’re pushing is a plantation and they’re calling it libertarIainism. They are calling it libertarIainism. It’s and I have to say getting away with it as well and getting away with it. So deception is part and parcel of this push towards digital dictatorship. Absolutely. Yeah. One of the things that I also explore quite a bit in the book is this notion of the decentralization to recentralization trick, which people like Bella Za, who wrote the network state they tie themselves in. And one of the reasons that I think people like the, and stumble over very simple questions is because if they were honest about what they’re doing, it they just couldn’t say what they, they couldn’t say it without being, probably, without being arrested. So what do you think about the use of artificial intelligence or lavender by the IDF in identifying Hamas targets? And secondly, do you agree with Elon Musk about that the population decline is a risk for humanity?
Look, I, again I’m not.
I with without going into all the de I’m not on top of all the details of what’s going on in Israel because my bias is to defer to Israel. It’s not for us to, to second guess every everything. And I believe that broadly the IDF gets to decide what it wants to do and that they’re broadly in the right. And that’s the perspective I come back to. And if I fall into the trap of arguing you on every detailed point I’m actually gonna, I would actually be conceding the broader issue that the Middle East should be micromanaged from Cambridge. And I think that’s just simply absurd. And so I’m not gonna concede that point.
And what was your the other
So they can’t be honest. So they have to lie and they have, they are tied at tying themselves up in knots. So at one point the net, the network state concept is quite important because that is very much the way that it is being rolled out globally. But one of the thing, one of the things that is, that Bellagio Strand says in the book is that the new system will be different because it the new system that he wants will be different because it will be decentralized. Now that is a libertarIain principle, of course, that the notion of decentralized government, and it’s not just a li libertarIain principle it’s a small c conservative principle as well. The idea of localized governance makes sense to a lot of people but. What he then says is that once it’s everything has been decentralized, it will be that it will then be recentralized. So hang on a minute. So you are talking about, you’re talking about devolving governance in some way so that you can then exert centralized, authoritarIain control over all of it. That’s the opposite of decentralization, right? That’s not decentralization. Yeah. A another deception. Yeah. Just a massive deception that you talk about. 180 degree deception that appears again and again in the book is this notion that these technocrats come out and they’re like, oh, where are we anti-global this? We don’t want a new world order. And all these globalists controlling everything. But in fact, they themselves are puppets of the globalists. Yeah. It’s ridiculous really. But, Peter Thiel is one of the people that has railed against he calls global governance the Armageddon or the Antichrist. And yet he’s on the steering committee of the Builder Berg Group with Alex Karp, who then they both run Palantir, which it, which has basically taken the Total Information Awareness project started by John Poindexter, started by Poindexter. When how far back does this go? Yeah. That was about 2000. 2000 when 2001, I’m gonna say. But certainly by 2003 in Q Tel CIA’s investment arm had.
Had they magic Palantir into existence?
I yeah, they, I think that’s not unfair to say they certainly invested heavily in Palantir which then ran the Total Information Awareness project really on behalf of the CIA for six years. So I think that was six years or so that, or maybe more that the CIA was Palantir’s only client. So that’s where Palantir comes from. We’re gonna take a closer look tonight at Privacy and Security. We all know there’s a debate in the country, thus giving the government greater freedom to keep an eye on people. Others would say Spy on people in the name of security undermine the basic American commitment to individual freedom. The Pentagon is currently testing something called the Total Information Awareness Program. The American Civil Liberties Union calls it the most extensive surveillance program in history. And what adds to the controversy is the man who’s being named to run it. Here’s ABC’s Jackie Jut. This is what the government would monitor, where Americans travel, what they buy, how much money they withdraw, electronic records from all of those activities, and more dump directly into the Pentagon driver’s license information about where people live. Phone numbers conceivably you could add in information that’s obtained by law enforcement. The Pentagon believes that by putting all this into supercomputers, suspicious patterns masked as everyday activities would emerge, you’re looking for trends and transactions that are associated with some potential terrorist act. That’s what you’re looking for and you’re trying to put those pieces together. Supporters of the Total Information Awareness Project, say private industries such as credit rating companies, already collects a lot of this material, so why not let the government take a look? We owe more to the victims of September 11 than just to say, oh, yeah, we did a bad job last time, but it’s too dangerous to try to do a better job next time. Normally though, authorities would have to get a warrant for electronic surveillance. The big deal is that the government is proposing to arrest people on the basis of this, that the government’s proposing to label people as terrorists to have an impact upon their lives in a very directed, significant way. Not only is the idea controversial, so is the person who came up with it and is running the pilot Project Admiral, do you swear? President Reagan’s national security advisor, John Poindexter, was convicted, then cleared on a technicality of lying to Congress during the Iran Contra scandal. The test run now underway could take a few years and real information, say officials is not being used, but the Pentagon is clearly moving to create the largest electronic eye ever to look at any and all Americans, Jackie, Judd, A, b, c, news, Washington. So in other words this note, these guys, these liberties alleged libertarIains pushed this notion that these rugged individuals, these tough guys, these capitalists, they survived competition. They rose to the top because they were the biggest, the strongest, the smartest, and the best. They were backed by the government the entire time. Yeah, that’s a huge deception. No, yeah, I know. It’s immense. And I, there isn’t anything that I could find that anything with any substance that’s important that I could find that they’ve said or they’ve done that is as it appears and is honest. There just isn’t any, there’s none. It’s, it is total deception from start to finish. It’s total deception and it’s thorough and it’s everywhere. I wanna read another quote from the book and get your comment on this. This is a, this is an episode that happened earlier this year early on in the Trump administration. The official propaganda narrative goes like this. This is talking about a fallout and an alleged fallout between Trump and Musk. The official narrative goes like this. Elon Musk was furious because Trump’s one big beautiful bill act. The government’s 2025 budget bill reduced taxpayer subsidies for electric vehicle manufacturers, including Tes Tesla goes on. Musk was said to have reacted angrily by publishing his June 5th ex post, in which he announced that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. Tell us about that whole yarn. Yeah it’s nonsensical for start because Musk ended his tenure at the head of the Doge. On schedule as planned 180 days into office. There was no, nothing happened. When Musk there was some contention because there was suspicions that he’d been taking drugs on the campaign trail and people were a bit upset about that. But Musk not Trump. I I got it. But when he was there was a public parting of waves when Musk left on schedule as planned. Left the Doge project.
And Trump even gave him a gold key, a symbolic gold key to the White House.
So their best they’re obviously Trump, and both JD Vance said, we will be working, we will carry on working with Elon. They the media couldn’t really deny that because they’d done a press conference where they said exactly that. So there wasn’t much they could do about that. One week later, we are supposed to believe that Trump and Musk hate each other so much. That that Musk is now trying to some of the ridiculous things that were said, for example, that he’s an existential threat to the presidency having paid $250 million to put the president in the office in the first place.
The, there was this threat and therefore Musk had outed trumps
and I think there’s very much a thing about saying, about Trump’s involvement with the Epstein and the, and his exposure in the Epstein files. And then we have the big debacle about, about whether or not they’re gonna release the Epstein files or not. As if those files need to be released in order of us to know that Trump was heavily involved with Epstein. We don’t need, we already know that. The files to know that. When you look at the photos guy, you’re in the photos with these arms, with their arms around each other with young checks all over the place. It’s not, it’s pretty obvious. He’s, it’s, yeah. The whole thing’s a joke. But in general, generally speaking, when you have manufactured drama, like this manufactured controversy, which is completely synthetic, what are those controversies designed to hide? It’s to hard what they’re doing and what they’re actually doing. If you look at the we’ve already discussed what the Doge did, but it also created the framework for the inter to, for companies like Palantir to come in and take all the data from disparate data sets, like the Department of Justice, department of Defense, to take them, to take all the data, homogenize them, make it interoperable so that they can create a centralized, unified data structure that controls many different parts of the US government. That’s and also you would have to say, harvest all the data that is stored in note by those departments which is the personal and private data of US citizens. So that’s what they’re doing, that, that’s what they’re, that’s what has happened and that’s what they’re doing. But instead, people talk about whether or not. Elon Musk has fallen out with Donald Trump. Yeah, it’s to totally irrelevant. It doesn’t just meaningless to get involved with the personal drama he said. She said, rather than with the fundamental issues. That’s, it’s basically a distraction. I hear what I hear you saying. Yeah. I wanna, I’ll turn to a topic which is a subject, which is how close are we now to having the trap sprung to having the trap thrown and living in a digital dictatorship and not being able to escape the system of slavery that you’re describing. How close to realizing that are we right now, how many moves do the powers that be need to achieve the plantation that they’re after? Are there just, are there a few, I dunno, let’s call ’em sufficient conditions for destroying sovereignty, for destroying go de Democratic governance for good that you can identify now. I think unfortunately technologically. The infrastructure has already been built. It’s al it’s already there. But their massive problem they’ve got is that they have to somehow entice us into play, is into going along with it. ’cause ultimately this is a behavioral control system. Once our digital identity is linked to programmable digital currency, then they will have total behavioral control over the humanity. Okay. Let me get at another other way. What are the things that, what are the biggest impediments to achieving digital dictatorship that exist right now? W we are the the people, if we don’t go along with it if, for example it’s slightly different outside of the US but certainly in the US if the people of the US demand that their constitution is upheld, then they’ve got a problem. They can’t go ahead with the with their plans, for example. Not a, not accepting and not using stable coins and demanding that they are treated as a currency, a national currency. ’cause that’s what they are. Cash is a big impediment. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah oh, what could we do? What can people do? Yeah, sure. So people can, I think the most important thing is people realize the power that they’ve got in their wallets, right? The decisions that people make about what they buy, who they, let’s look at it this way. There’s a reason why they want to control what you buy. Where you can buy it, who you buy it from, and how much money you can save and how, because once they’ve got control of that, they’ve got control of you. The flip side of that is that if you consciously decide, make those decisions that you are not gonna support this digital dictatorship that you are going to use cash, that you are going to be as self-sufficient as possible, that you are going to buy from people whose values you respect that you are going to do business with people who you consider to be honest and trustworthy. Then if we exercise that power, that is precisely the power that they’re trying, they’re desperate to take away from us, right? So clearly that’s the power that they are most fearful of. So that’s the power that we should exercise. In other words, when you see somebody like August and Carson’s the head of the bank for international settlements get up, did you see that, that speech? Yeah. Where he was discussing the distant distinction between cash and central bank digital currency. Yeah. Did what did he say? He said at the moment, I think he was talking about a hundred dollars note, wasn’t he? But he was referencing pesos as well. But he said, at the moment, we don’t know where that expression of a central bank’s liability is used or who’s using it or where there is where they’re using it. But with Central Bank digital currency, which is just a that just means programmable digital currency of any kind. But with programmable digital currency not only will we know who’s spending what, where they’re spending it and why and what they bought, we will have the power to enforce control. I’m paraphrasing right. In other words we can enforce our own rules. He says we have our own rules. We can enforce ’em, our sal, yeah. In other words, a lot of times these guys, they give themselves away and they tell you what they’re after and they tell you what they don’t like. They don’t like not knowing where the money is and what you’re spending it on, and the inability to control it. And they want rules to be able to control what you spend your money on and what amount, when and where. Now. Isn’t that when Jerome wasn’t Jerome Powell on that call? Was it When Jerome Powell, yeah. J Jer Powell was his dummy out it, it was on, it was in his diplomatic way he did, it was October of 2020. It was during the pandemic. Yeah. And Powell was sitting there and he is I think there are a lot of advantages of Central Bank digital currency, but I think we also need to be concerned about privacy and all the rest. He had to make a token objection in his diplomatic way, which he did. But he was, you’re right, Powell absolutely was freaked out because Augustine Power, the head of the bank for international settlements, had just gotten up and had shown his true colors and revealed his blood lust for total control. So what you were talking about in this book is not some hypothetical reality. It is. It’s a reality that is rolling out. Right now in real time. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And one of the thing I, this isn’t included in the book, but one thing that I wish I had now, but there was a very important interview with talking about how they view these people that they’re called Neo Reactionary. So people like the and Musk, and they’re part of the Neoreaction Neoreactionary movement. The was asked, it was a very simple question do you want humanity to continue? Was the question that he was asked and he couldn’t? So yes, no, he couldn’t. Yes. No, I don’t know. Those are the answers. He couldn’t answer it. He couldn’t answer it. So that gives you an idea. If somebody asked me that question, I’m sure you, it’s yes is a fairly simple, but he couldn’t answer that question. You would prefer the human race to endure.
You’re hesitating.
Yeah. I, yes. I don’t know. I would. I would this is a long hesitation. There’s so many. There is a long hesitation. There’s so many questions. And plus shoot because they don’t want us to continue to be the, I mean this c seriously, if you look at their work and what they say and what they don’t want us to continue to be the species that we are. They don’t want us to continue to be that species.
They’re not for self-determination by us at all.
I wanna turn back to an issue you raised, which is governance and what the system may look like. Right now we have a system of nation states and of sovereignty and most throughout the west, mostly democracies. Your book goes into what is coming and what is coming to replace nation states. Why don’t you go and explain a little bit about what coming, I guess you call it tech Nate. What are we talking about with Tenet? What sort of realms are we looking at? I think we need to look very much at special economic zones that are proliferating around the world. At the moment, I think there are something like 5,000 special economic zones of various types, and they go from basically just subsidized warehousing costs and some tax breaks for foreign companies to set up business in a particular zone all the way to charter cities, which are privately run zones. So these are eec, especially economic zones, broadly speaking, you could say are deregulated zones with their own, often with their own jurisdiction. For not only regulation, but things like policing those regulations and enforcing the rules that whatever it is that they want to enforce. For example, a good example of that would be Neo in Saudi Arabia, where Neo is both a project city, the of the people are probably familiar with the line in this big modern thing that they’re building. But Neo is also the name of the wider special economic zone. Now, Saudi Arabia is not known for its
legal tolerance.
And yet Neo is a jurisdiction unto itself. They don’t have to obey sha a law in Neo. Neo is outside of the Saudi ArabIain state’s legal system. It is its own jurisdiction. Even though geographically it is wholly within Saudi Arabia. Is that what you’re saying? Yeah. Yeah. So it’s within Saudi Arabia, but it’s, but jurisdictionally, it’s outside of Saudi. Saudi. So this is, it sounds a, that sounds a lot to me, like the bank for international settlements is, it exists inside of Basel, Switzerland. Exactly. It’s jurisdictionally independent. You can’t reach inside and get anything in secret. So these special economic zones are proliferating around the world, as I said. Now there are particular ones. So there’s a Peter Thiel and the, and his entourage and his partners, people like Mark Anderson. And they are invested in a company called Promos Capital. And there’s, and also I suspect that they’re behind Knee Way Capital as well. But these two capital investment firms, venture investment firms, they are. Very keen on the notion of charter cities. So these are private jurisdiction, privately owned and run and operated cities. Now they’ve started various projects. For example, they’ve got one in Nigeria called it.
And there was a quote, and I’m just looking for the quote here.
I can’t remember the professor’s name, but he’s a US based Professor of African Studies who just openly said that it’s within, they’ve created this thing called the NigerIain government has created this thing called the LE Free Zone. And what this professor said is that when you are inside the zone, you are outside the NigerIain state, but the lucky free zone is territorially inside the NigerIain state. Then you’ve got, and then at the same time very much on the longest, same idea. And one of his executive orders as well, when Trump first came into office was this notion of creating what he called Freedom Cities. Now, freedom Cities essentially would be if they proceed as envisaged, and they’re again backed by pr, promos, capital, the charter cities in institute, the Freedom Cities Coalition, which is all backed by the same players that you and I are discussing. If they go ahead as planned, they will be deregulated free zones of innovation with their own jurisdiction within the United States. Wait, so let me get this straight. If they’re deregulated these places, whether they’re in the US or whether they’re in Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or wherever they are. I take it that people are free to do whatever they want in these places if you happen to live in one. They I think that currently saying they’ll have to abide by federal laws, so they or if they’re outside of the US they’ll have to abide by the laws, so you can’t just kill people. But so for example, in Honduras, in
Prospera, which is one of these, one of these freedom cities that has been
set up in Honduras currently Peter Thiel is investing in unregulated genetic experimentation, gene editing in Prospera because I see, so the powers that beat, the powers that be are free to do whatever they want. Yeah. But what about the man on the street? Can he do whatever? What money is he using? Can he do whatever he wants or there’s some restrictions perhaps. Yeah. So the idea is and this is very, and that’s why I said that the, I think the book the network state is quite important because Biza is very much linked into this neoreactionary movement. And he’s also obviously very closely associated with Theo and Promos capital. He’s on the board of promos capital. So he wrote that all value goes digital. All val, all value goes digital. So every asset, every not, and it’s not just asset, all currency is digital. Every asset is digital, tokenized, stored on a permissioned blockchain. So the founders of the network state, or Freedom City or Charter City, the founders are the equivalent of what in our current system. CEOs so that the CEO of the sovereign state, so these would be created as sovereign states run by a sovereign corporation whose CEO would be essentially the king. Essentially the king. Do the people living there, are they like shareholders who have a vote and what goes on? No. All value goes digital, including you. So you would be a ta you would agree initially when you joined or was subject to the sovereign state, you would sign a smart contract or agree to a smart contract where essentially you hand over all of your assets. Control of all of your assets and all of your personal income and every and everything to, to the founder. The founder. Now that they’ll obviously frame it in the sense that they’re good custodIains of your assets and your, but nonetheless you, it’s when everything is digital on a permissioned ledger, which is what they are talking about, then obviously only those with access permissions have control of whatever is on that ledger. So you’re gonna go from a system where you’re a voter and you have some control of your destiny to, you’re an asset on a ledger fair. Yes. Yeah. That’s the idea. Yeah. Yeah. And you’re gonna have to, you’ll sign, you’re gonna give it away. That’s what I hear you saying, people are gonna be deceived into giving away their own sovereignty because they think it’s libertarIain, they have managed to sell this as what they talk about. It is governance as a service. And this was something that was mentioned in the dark enlightenment, and this was something that’s mentioned in the network state, this idea that you buy in governance. So Sure, you can’t, you don’t have any kind of influence or control over that governance because it’s something that you are, you agree to be subjected to. So what the, what LAN said was he took talk, spoke about this idea called free exit. So free exit would means, alright, I don’t like the way you are running things, so I am free to leave and go and buy a governance service from someone else.
That’s all well and good, obviously if you have the

the ability to do that.
But seen as most of us are tied to where we live for all kinds of reasons. Not just financial reasons we have people that we love and that we care for. We can’t just up sticks and move
vast majority, billions of us.
We can’t just uptick and move because the government is oppressing us. If that was true, then nobody would be ever be oppressed, would they? ’cause they’d just leave and go somewhere u utopia. But, and that’s so what they’re talking about is nonsense. What they are talking about is a highly hierarchical society. Because if you have sufficient assets to purchase what they call sufficient sovereignty. If you can buy sovereignty because you are wealthy, then you know your degree of sovereignty will be greater than somebody who can’t afford to buy so much sovereignty. But it’ll also be subject to the whims of the people who were running opaquely, running the monetary system in whatever technique you happen to be living in. Isn’t that right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So you may be rich today, you’re gonna be poor tomorrow if they just start deleting your money willy-nilly because you said something wrong on social media. Yeah. And it is the perfect system for picking winners and losers in all
not just for people that might say the wrong thing.
It is to extrapolate this further, if you think about it, we, that if they managed to create the system, and they’re certainly putting in the infrastructure that would enable that to happen. Potentially there, there would be no need for law. There would no be, no need for government. There wouldn’t be no need for policy. Go. Government policy would be superfluous. Oh, there’s laws that are being enforce. They’re just not laws that you can send it to or certainly wrote. Yeah they, they would get, but because what everything would be controlled by AI algorithm. So you can pro, pro program the algorithm to control what people do, what they say, where they go, even to the extent of that, will start shaping what they think. You, and especially if you can make them into cyborgs and put genetic in genetically enhance them or put cyborg implants into their heads. All of this rests on the deception is part and parcel of the sales game. Here. I wanna read something from page 274. It’s chapter 15 of your book. That landed with me. And that’s the role of deception in what you’re talking about. The establishment of these techniques you write, while the neo nerds are constructing their gov type gov type techniques, the public must be kept in the dark. Government has to look like it’s functioning as usual to head off a public uprising against the total and transformation to neo feudalism that is taking place under everyone’s noses. Yeah that’s a great way of putting what’s going on. So that’s to say to people I talk to people that are skeptical about all this stuff. And I’m like you gotta read Iain Davis’s book. He is, you’re outlining something that’s going on and it’s going on in real time, and your book provides example after example of how what’s going on. It’s taking place in real time. It may be an e embryonic form now, and it may be pitched as for your benefit or for your convenience, but it’s most certainly what you’re talking about is in the title, the digital Dictatorship. If we look at laws that are being passed at the moment, for example in the UK we’ve got the Online Safety Act. They’ve got the Digital Services Act in the eu. You are now talking about, in the US they’re talking about bringing in the Kids Online Safety Act and all this kind of stuff that is all about digital control, that is all about dig digital control of what we say and who we can communicate with in the digital space. Now, they want to create a society which is that the parallel facsimile of which exists only in a digital space. There is no other, there is no other space. So in terms of you, do you think of the kind of social interaction that we have at the moment, which things like lockdowns stop us being able to do so they’re talking about. Having a society, a digital tokenized society which is totally controlled by, even they call them city brains. One, one of the, one of the things that they’re talking about is in, and certainly they’ve done this in places like Shenzhen in China, where you’ve got, you, you’ve got companies that oversee a city brain that links together all social functions of the city and monitors it from a central kind of monitoring perspective that, that pretty much controls everything that everyone does within that city. Now if we have this patchwork of realms that, that is being constructed through things like special economic zones and that starts to take root within nation states, one of the concepts that, that they’re very keen on promoting. And certainly one of the things that’s within the network state is the idea that the people that are behind it, the private investors crowdfund and crowdsource the development of their own city states, their own free city states. If you, if your crowdfunders are Peter Thiel, Elon Musk Larry Ellison. If they’re crowdfunding your city state, within a nation state, pretty soon your city state is gonna have far more resources than the nation state. So it’s like a kind of parasite that is sucking resources out of your, out of the nation state, weakening the nation state. And you know what these things work like when they first start rolling this stuff out and they are rolling it out around the world, first, it’s being sold to the business community as being an, as being innovation hubs where they don’t have, they’re not subject to the regulations and the, any of the regulations that they’re subject to by, under, under national government. So it’s enticing the business community to get on board. But then when they get to the point of enticing us to get onboard, get on board, one of the ruse they’re using is selling it as libertarIainism, which it most certainly is not. And the, but the other one is that this is your opportunity to break away from the yoke of oppressive government overreach. So you think, oh great I can and I am right Certain that as they, when they get to the point of enticing us to go and live there live in one of these city states, that’s the way we will be. It’ll be sold to us with it’s just perfect convenience. We don’t have to we could, we get everything we want if we go there, but unfortunately, the agreement that you have to make. To live in one of these city states that they’re building. Is that you will give away all your sovereignty. You’ll just hand it over to them, lock, stock, and barrel. So isn’t it true that one of the motivations of people in power now, which is, let’s just call it the joint venture between old line money and the tech bros, isn’t, don’t, they have a huge motivation now to make things under the current system as miserable as possible? Yeah yeah I’ve, there’s already, I mean there’s the, you can go back sort of 10, 15 years. There have been papers written about the the AI controlled government, the agen state where governance is controlled by algorithm. Yeah. Some people call it algo or whatever, and that is very firmly in their mind. That is exactly Mark Anderson said that AI is their philosopher’s stone. You’ve used his name a couple times, re refresh people on who? Mark Anderson is. Mark Anderson is their head of Anderson Horowitz, which is arguably the biggest tech investment venture capitalist firm in the world. And he’s knee deep in the Trump administration too. Oh, yeah. He’s been appointed, or he has been instrumental in appointing people to the Trump administration and nobody elected Mark Anderson. Yeah I always see us, rather distinct head. When I hear the name Mark Anderson, I know who he is. Yeah. But I’ve heard his name a bunch of times. Let me ask you this, how, let’s talk about a timeline. We’re about to go into 2026. We’re a few days away from that. When do you think what are we looking at in terms of a year when the trap would be finally sprung if we don’t do anything right now? I think, I’m not entirely clear why, but I think 20, 20 30 is a is a pivotal point. They’ve obviously, my view is that if you look at the rollout of the infrastructure globally
which is.
Already largely in place. So in interoperability, using a unified ledger of some sort is already possible. There have already there’ve been plenty of experiments already done to, to make this system work around the world, not just the bis have been formative but the eu, the British government the Bank of England, the, there’s been plenty of experiments to make sure this will work. Now that means that what they really need, one of the problems that they’ve got is data centers. They need in order, if this is gonna happen the way that they envisage, there’d be a massive increase in energy demand just to service the data centers, which advances the agenda of making life miserable by driving up energy costs for the man on the street. Yeah. And which is why Trump announced that the the government’s kind of acquiescence to the Stargate project, although the Stargate is privately financed. But again it’s creating the regulatory framework to enable it to happen.
If, so 2030, I think pretty sure that the whole system will be set up.
We’re already seeing the push for digital identity in the UK in the eu or as close as they can possibly beat it, actually rolling out Central Bank digital currency linked to a digital identity. They’ve already done that. So they, so this is going ahead, this is the point that I stress a lot in the book, right? This is, you can, and that’s why I give so many examples. This isn’t theoretical, part of it’s theoretical. ’cause part of it is about this wacky philosophy they’ve got. But the other part the practical application of what they’re doing is not theoretical because there are so many examples of this system being built
and 2030 looks like they want to have all their ducks lined up.
They want it all in place, ready to go 2030. I gotta tell you, Iain, your book is such an eye-opener and it’s really on a personal note, it helped me get off the fence in, in my own work on war for bank ocracy, which I’m gonna get back to that, but your book reading that was like, okay, now it clarified a lot and it helped me a lot. And it also is something else I wanna mention about your book. I think there are a lot of people out there, I know a lot of people personally who think, oh you guys. You’re so paranoid about this. You believe in these conspiracies and whatnot, and yet these same people who might be skeptical toward the alternative media and toward people like you and me, they know something’s wrong and they’re at least willing to admit that the system is rigged. And I think your book I’ve sent your book to a couple people who are, they have that sort of skepticism, but they’re not really willing to make the leap yet of, to where you and I have been for quite some time. Your book, because it is so well footnoted in research and so well written, is a great way to, to nudge people over the line and get ’em onto our side of this fight. And it is an existential fight to be clear. So I want to congratulate you on writing the book. How long is the line of people who are looking to get movie rights into dark technocracy?
It’s a very short line, non-existent line is I, I. I’m really glad.
Thank you very much. It’s very you to say that. ’cause your work as well is one of the things that has that, that has informed me over the years. So it’s it’s nice to be able to return the favor a little bit. That is the point. The point is, and one something that I’ve always stressed in my work, and I know exactly what you mean about being considered fringe or whatever, is that I have tried consistently since I’ve been doing this and I’ve been doing this about 10 bit, bit more years, 15 years or something
is to say that, look, what I’m referencing here is in
the public domain, right? This is public domain information. This isn’t, I’m using their documents. That’s what I do on my channel. You words your words, you said this. Yeah. This is what they said, this is what they’ve done. There are whole, there are massive global think tanks that have produced books. About this idea. Yeah. And it and yet, if you try and point that point a mainstream media journalist in that direction and ask them just to consider this information it’s as you well know it’s an almost impossible task, probably because the editors, their editors know that they can’t publish that kind of thing. In the UK we’ve got, I’m talking about pe person to person appeal, I fr friends and family. Oh yeah. I’m seeing a lot the resistance, like you’re just described in so far as journalists current, that resistance as far as people is concerned, acquaintances, friends, family, it’s coming down, it’s coming down fast. People know something’s wrong and I think your book is a great way to push ’em in the right direction. Yeah, I really hope so. Because that is, that’s the kind of the main focus of what I’m doing. I just want people to consider. Just consider this information because the problem is they’re not gonna get it while they’re sitting there watching. CNN is not gonna tell them. Yeah, the BBC’s not gonna tell them. Let me ask you this, as we kinda wind down here. What is the best place for people to find your work? Yeah it’s Iain davis.com and you’re quite right. My name spelled with two i’s IAIN davis.com, all one word. My substack, which is iaindavis.substack.com. To get the book it’s all one word, the technocratic dark state.com. And that will take you to the publisher’s page. And the publishers are Paper Cut Publishing run by Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb. And I write individual pieces for unlimited hangout at Whitney Webb’s site. I also have, my work is spread about quite a bit. I’m quite fortunate that a lot of other outlets distribute my work. So the off guard in particular technocracy News and Trends, these are other outlets as well. You pretty much, if you put in Iain Davis, you’ll probably find a site that’s got something that I’ve written. Very good. On behalf of Solari Report, I wanna thank you for being here on behalf of my own channel. Best Evidence. Thank you for doing this, and thank you for the enormous undertaking that writing that book had to have been. But the book is absolutely dynamite, and I urge people to go out and get yourself multiple copies. Give them out for Christmas. Now’s the time. This interview will post on solar, like I said, on December 18th. It’ll be after Christmas, after the New York, when it shows up on my channel’s best evidence. But Iain Davis’ book is such an eye-opener. I thank you for your work and I thank you for your time here today. And happy Merry Christmas to you, sir. And to you John. Thank you very much for inviting me. It’s been a pleasure. Great. All right. That is it for the Solari Report. Thanks for watching and we will see you again in the new year.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Solari Report. My name is John Titus. I’m the co-host and co-producer of Money and Markets with Catherine Austin Fitts. I also have my own video channels on several platforms, YouTube, Odyssey, and Bitchute. That channel is called Best Evidence on All three Platforms. This special report of the Solari Report. This production in fact, is going to appear on best evidence my channels, one month after posting on Solari dot com, which will happen on December 18th for Solari and roughly January 18th of next year on, on my channel. Today I am joined. By Iain Davis, who has just published a terrific new book called The Technocratic Dark State Trump AI and Digital Dictatorship. I can tell you, as I told Iain when we talked about this book, it’s one of two books that I’ve read cover to cover in the last 20 years. It is absolutely masterful summary of what the tech bros have been up to. I’ve been watching ’em what are they up to? This Iain’s book nails it and describes in excruciating detail what they’ve been doing over the last 20 years and really beyond. There’s several examples from the late nineties where everything fits into place when you read this book and the book is very thoroughly researched and very well written. Iain understands how to write and it paints a very dark picture of the digital plantation that we’re all headed for unless we get together and slam on the brakes. To avoid the nightmare described in his title, the title of the book, the Digital Dictatorship, Iain is here today. I’m pleased to report to talk about this book. When you see Iain, you will notice that he has two i’s and so does the spelling of his name, Iain. It’s IAIN Iain Davis, a name you will want to familiarize yourself with. You can find Iain’s work@iaindavis.com. Iain’s published work has also appeared@offguardian.org and unlimited hangout.com, as well as UK calm.org. Iain is also a member of the Independent Media AllIaince, along with Catherine Austin Fitts and James Corbert and Richard Grove, among others. Iain, welcome to the Solari Report. Thank you very much for inviting me, John. It’s a pleasure to be here. It’s good to talk to you in person and do an interview. This is my first ever interview that I’ve done. For my website or for my YouTube channel, for my video channels. It’s also the first interview I’ve done for Solari dot com. So you’re my first interviewee. You have to take it easy on me. But it’s a pleasure to talk to you. ’cause I really your book really your book helped me understand the world. Cause I tended to ignore these guys. These guys, these tech bros annoy me. I’ll get into that. And this book really describe, I should not be annoyed. I should be paying a lot more attention. Your book has helped me. But let me cut right to, I wanna go right to my favorite part of the book, which addresses money creation. This is the part where it’s oh, okay, I get it now. But let me say this. The people with the power to create money at a thin air, they’re in control now. They’ve been in control for several centuries. Their private parties. And so my initial question is why do they why do these, the old money people, let’s call ’em, even tolerate the tech bros who are offering crypto schemes, especially stable coins, to compete with the money issuance of banks and central banks, frankly, why? In other words, why don’t the monetary powers that be just used in the US the Department of Justice to snuff out these would be tech bro competitors the same way they killed prosecutions and investigations into Wall Street in the wake of the global financial crisis? What, in other words, what are the tech bros offering to the old money powers that those powers don’t have already? Yeah they’re offering essentially they’re offering a workaround for the US Constitution. They. The plan is clearly that they want an international, a digitally, a tokenized digital, international monetary and financial system. And in most places around the world we have fully independent central banks. So if we look at, for example, the European Central Bank, it’s in there, it’s in there, found in documents that they literally state, no, no government has any control over us whatsoever. In fact, I think it’s part of their documentation where they say, we will not take any advice from any government. So they are firmly independent, other central banks around the world. Certainly if we look at the Bank of England, that’s independent by virtue of its royal charter.
Where that situation exists.
And if we then look at and if we then look at who controls Central Bank, those kind of independent central banks, it’s the private sector, it’s the, it’s generally the major shareholders of the leading commercial banks. But nonetheless, while that situation exists, they can create an independent, privately controlled, tokenized digital, international monetary and financial system. The situation is not quite the same in the US as your excellent research pointed out because constitutionally speaking, the issuance of currency is theoretically controlled by the people through Congress. So you can’t have this total control of this tokenized digital monetary system using a central bank digital currency.
With the US and obviously the US is probably the most
important economy in the world. It’s got the world reserve currency or the dominant reserve currency. And so that’s a problem that, that is a problem if you want a privatized, tokenized digital, international, monetary and financial system. What the the tech bros that I refer to in the book as neo nerds. What they have offered is a workaround through stable coins. And the Trump administration has most certainly obliged with the Genius Act because the Genius Act by determining that these stable coins are not a national currency and they’re not an asset class, therefore they’re not subject to oversights by the Securities And Exchange Commission has set these firmly outside the reach of, in this case, Congress and the Constitution. But they are, they’re called payment stable coins. They are backed the they’re effectively backed one to one by the dollar through treasuries and other dollar instruments. They are in every single practical sense. A digital US dollar, they can be exchanged one for one for the dollar. Internationally. Stable coins, if I’m understand what you’re saying correctly, they spend just like money in our bank account. Yeah. They’ll be spent just like that. They’ll be used just as you would use, just as you would use the dollar. Now you can purchase goods with it and even to the extent that, which, that they’ve got bridging systems now, which is something that the bank, bank of international settlements has been very keen to to put into place bridging payment systems that enables you to use a digital dollar as you would use the dollar if you had a bank payment card and paid for a product or service. In the High Street or on Main Street. So it’s not just about online transactions. You’ll also be able to spend them via intermediary payment service providers. In a in a shop or in a store. So that, that, that’s such a great point that ultimately what the tech bros are offering to the powers that be is an end run around the constitution. So right now, under the currently configured US monetary system, we, the people in theory and legally we have some measure of control over the money issuing entities both over the Fed at the wholesale level and over the banks, the commercial banks through the FDIC and through the office of the ER currency. What you were talking about with stable coins and with crypto is the money issuance from private entities. And I know this because in fact I’ve been trying to learn about stable coins and crypto and so I’m like okay, I’ll just go to legal treatises and start reading case law. On stable coins and exchanges and all the rest, and there is no case law. It is completely private, it is completely dark, and transparency is an issue that we’re gonna touch on later in this interview. But that’s great. But don’t, is there is one other feature of the monetary control and stable coins and digi and digital money and tokenized money that is offering an advantage to the old line money powers. And that is, from where I’m sitting, it doesn’t digital money, fully digital money offer to the powers that be a way of controlling debt that might otherwise spiral out of control irreversibly and fatally. No, absolutely. And I would suggest that’s very much why they are so desperate to get this new international monitoring financial system up and running. Because if we look at let’s say that the estimated officially acknowledged global debt is 320 trillion, and of which about 40 trillion, I dunno what it was this morning, but 39 trillion or whatever it was, is US debt. US public debt. That’s public debt, not private debt. Yeah. Yeah. Not private debt. Yeah, just public debt. So then if you look at the if you then add into that the nominal value of the potential debt in the derivatives market, then you’re looking at, some people say one quadrillion, some people say. Who it’s it’s debatable what that is because as is, as was noted when they looked at what happened during the 2008 financial crisis, much of that trading is over the counter. And I think the investigating committee that looked into it, which might have been the FIDC, I can’t remember that looked into it, actually said that this is it’s unknown trading. We dunno, it’s not talking about transparency. There isn’t any They don’t know it. It’s so in other words, you don’t ever really know at any given time what the money supply is, how big the money supply is. Yeah. Now somebody knows, but it’s not anybody in the public who knows. And so this, when I read this in your book, I was like this is, this explains a lot because I’d seen LAR review article by someone nominated to be the head of the office of the comp, control of the currency here in the us. Then the LAR review article said, listen, when debt, because money is issued, is debt and debt can get outta control. One thing you can do with a central bank digital currency, which is an alternate form of what we’re talking about with stable coins, what you can do is you can simply delete money out of people’s accounts. Yeah. And so it’s a system of total. Control that you’re describing in your book? Yeah. No, it’s, it is total control. You can delete money, you can set the duration on money. You can control where and when it is spent sim simply through programming it, through literally programming it. And one of the great ironies I think from a us the population’s perspective in terms of electing Trump is that he made a great deal of opposing central bank digital currency because quite rightly, a sizable number of the population were very concerned about that, and rightly absolutely. But what he’s offered. Instead what he’s gone ahead and done instead through an executive order, which is one of the first things that he announced when he first came into office is to create the, for want of a better expression, the enabling environment, the legal, like enabling environment for stable coins, which are arguably worse. They’re worse. I was, one of the questions though, why are they worse? Why are they, because it relates right back to what you were saying earlier, because there’s no oversight, there’s no control. They’re privately issued there’s no control of them. Where, and I think because I asked myself a question and it was really in researching this book that I think I’ve answered that question for myself and hopefully for others, is that I couldn’t understand why the US wasn’t on board with Central Bank Digital Currency. I was thinking, what’s going on? Why are they your work? Actually, yeah. Started making me think ah there’s a problem here with the constitution. And then I looked at that as well, and then it, then I rea ah, this, that, that’s why the US has never been really on board with Central Bank Digital currency because of this problem. They’ve been dragging their feet of co compared to everybody else in the, across the globe. Yeah. So that sort of wraps up why tolerate the tech bros? What are they up to? What do they offer the old line powers to be? I wanna move on to a concept you discuss. And that I thought was bogus for a long time. I thought it was a buzzword. Your book discusses interoperability at length. Before I read your book, I thought that was simply interoperability. That’s another buzzword, but it really isn’t. So why don’t you tell us what interoperability is and what crucial functions does it perform? This goes to the heart of deceit which is a big theme in the book. Basically interoperability links. What they call disparate data sets. Now, those data sets could be pertaining to anything. So it could be a data set of digital identity or a data set of a digital ID product, which is a separate card such as the REAL ID system, although that is linked in the US to Ient, which is a, which is the kind of bigger overarching system. Or it could be financial, it could be a financial tokenized product. For example, if you think about your driving license is issued that is controlled by the issue of the driving license. It is not linked to your bank card. Your bank card is issued by a private commercial bank or a payment provider. The two things are not linked. They’re not linked. What? Interoperability. And if you look at what the Bank for International Settlements has been doing over the last 10 or more years, it has been obsessed with this notion of interoperability, creating an interoperable system. What that means is the data set from your driving license so that everybody’s can be linked via. Usually via software such as Palantir, Gotham or something like that, to the data set from your bank card. Your bank card. So these two things can now be linked into one unified. The, what they’re looking to do that is is a unified ledger of some sort, whether that’s gonna be blockchain or some other form of ledger, while interoperability is in its infancy. So is just security awareness. And I think unfortunately interoperability is accelerating a little faster than security awareness. And so it’s being done in a dangerous way in a lot of times. That’s an interesting point because EMRs. Electronic medical record systems have security controls, but what it boils down to is the person setting this thing up, doing it correctly. Have they turned on the right settings and turned off the wrong settings? And the, i the answer according to these 2000 you says are exposed, obviously, no. Now that what they’re trying, what they have been trying to do on a global scale for this digital, international, monetary and financial system is create interoperability between all currencies, interoperability between all digital currencies. So yet the first thing they need to do is convert the existing fiat currencies into digital forms. So that’s where outside of the US that was very the favorite way of doing that is through, or the favored way of doing that is central bank digital currency in the US For the reasons we’ve just discussed, that was slightly problematic. Therefore it’s stable coins in other parts of the world, it’s deposit tokens, but it all amounts to the same thing. It is the digitization of existing monetary sys of the existing monetary systems whilst maintaining the difference between currency. So you still got a dollar version, a a sterling version, a Euro version, a yen version. You’ve still got this, these different distinctions, but through interoperability and which converts the transactions made into a single unified. Standard for example, for digital information exchange. So one of the things that the BI has worked on quite a lot, I think it’s Project Juno, is to introduce ISO 20022 standards for all financial information exchanges. Now, when in the digital world it’s easy, it’s relatively easy to make transactions in one currency, interoperable with trans, with the transaction in another currency. So if we’re talking about business to business transactions globally, if you are buying goods and services, or if you are buying, say, commodities from, or products, manufactured products from China with the dollar. You don’t have the problem. It, what interoperability does is remove the settlement, the clearing and the settlement, and the delays and the costs that are associated with that and makes the transaction instantaneous across borders. So what that means is if you are purchasing products from China into the us, you can pay in dollars in the us and that will be instantaneously via interoperability received in Rebi or whatever in China, without any kind of sent any, they say, without any kind of intermediary. But of course, there is an intermediary and that is the permission block, universal Ledger, which will be controlled globally. Centrally. Yeah. Isn’t it true that one of the features of stable coins. That being interoperable with the current monetary systems. The stable coins spend spend like dollars. And so they’re interoperable with the monetary system we have now, which is two-tiered, it’s central banks on top and it’s retail banks on the bottom. Doesn’t the interoperability of stable coins with the current system offer to the US powers that be a way to soak up more US debt, which we obviously know is exploding? Yeah, no, absolutely. There in, I mean if you think about the hesitancy that countries have shown in recent years to take on US debt, for example, Japan,
that makes the US debt situation, which is precarious enough as
it is even more precarious. So what’s by issuing your own stable coins, if you like, although these will be privately issued as we’ve said, they can absorb debt. They’re back, they’re backed by, mainly they’re backed by treasury. So they all they can automatically absorb debt. Now the projected value of market cap of for stable coins, I think by 2035, and I may have got that wrong. It might even be sooner. It might even be about 20, 30 is four. I think it’s 2030. Yeah. Yeah. It’s 4 trillion. So that’s 4 trillion of debt that can be siphoned off into, if essentially into a new market, into a new, into the stable coins. And that would be, that’s a market, to be clear, that exists as far away as Senegal. It’s around the world. Yeah. People will be using us stable coins. Yeah. But if you think that the rate at which the debt is in increasing and I think the Trump administration was the first administration to have a $1 trillion deficit within the first quarter.
So that the debt’s going up, cons quite fast.
While stable coins, in my view, offer a short term debt release valve, and they def they definitely do. I think if you look at what they’ve got planned for a globalized, tokenized digital economy, that is ultimately where. Debt will be absorbed. It will just be consumed.
Currently if they’re, if the tokenized economy that, that, that is envisaged
certainly by the bank for international settlements and its International Central Bank partners, if they if that achieves the potential four to five quadrillion global economy that they are suggesting by tokenizing everything, including us, all of us
then obviously an official debt of around let’s, for argument’s
sake, let’s call it 500 trillion. It’s gone. You, that you’ve solved that problem between if you look at it from a balance sheet perspective currently your liabilities far outweigh your assets, but you just can create new assets out of the thin air by tokenizing everything. And then you flip that on its head and suddenly you haven’t got a debt problem. And you have no problem. There’s no impediment to doing any of this if there’s no transparency. True. Yeah. Yeah. No, none. So there’s no pushback. There’s no feedback loop that we’re talking about here. It’s open loop control by a bunch of technocrats. Buy a bunch of billionaires of the entire population with no, there, there’s the issue of consent goes out the window under what you’re talking about, which is digital dictatorship. True. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted talk to on that note about the, really the first part of the book the indeed the first chapter. You talk about technocrats and you talk about the dark enlightenment. I think I’m pretty sure people who are watching c and watching my channel best evidence, they have a decent feel for technocracy. And I’ll touch on that in a minute but more importantly now is why don’t you tell us what you mean by dark enlightenment? Because that was a term that was new to me and required some explanation. So what is dark enlightenment? What is that all about? It was a treaties that was written by a UK philosopher, a guy called Nick Land that worked in the cybernetics culture research unit at Warwick University. And they were just toying with the notion of the singularity, which is the the point at which technology becomes self perpetuating and outstrips our ability to adapt to it. And what that might, how humanity might cope with that. So they were very interested in Joseph Schumpeter’s economic idea of creative destruction, which it, which means, which shater applied this purely to markets. But what Shater meant was that a market gets destroyed by technology. For example a very easy one if you think that the market for the steam railway gets destroyed by the diesel engine. That’s a very simple. Analogy but you get the idea. So they thought that creative destruction could apply to all markets for sure, but it could also be, but rather than what Shumer described was an effect of capitalism, either I, capital investment in technological development, created this situation. What they thought was that you could apply that to deliberately cr destroy markets and seen as markets have sociopolitical connotations, the people that control markets monopolists they have sociopolitical power. You could therefore apply this to the wider sociopolitical in the wider sociopolitical sense. So you could literally con, capitalism could be freed up and utilized as a tool to control not just economic activity, but all kind of sociopolitical structures as well. Now that was an idea that they were toying with. But what they then came up with the dark enlightenment is that as a product of that idea, that underlying idea is horrific. So they thought that the singularity presented such a threat to humanity that they, and I’ll have to say that is an assumption. That is an assumption that they made. Therefore, our only solution is to adapt to it. And we can only do that through transhumanism. We have to become genetically engineered cyborgs in order to cope with the assumed approaching singularity that government. Only serves to stifle innovation. And the most important part of creative destruction is that innovation is unfettered and free and allowed to flourish. Therefore, government should be done away with completely. And innovation should be handed to private corporations. Private corporations are, were best placed to undertake this revolution in this global revolution. And therefore private companies private corporations should rule unchallenged and unmolested by any kind of democratic oversight. At its core, the Dark Enlightenment is a political and philosophical movement that challenges some of the foundational ideas of modern society. The term itself was popularized by British philosopher Nick Land in the early 2010s, but the roots go deeper. The core ideas were first developed by American Tech theorist Curtis Jarvin, writing under the pseudonym Mencius Mold Bug. Starting around 2007, through his influential blog, unqualified Reservations, Jarvin laid out a radical critique of democracy liberalism and the modern state proposing instead, a return to centralized hierarchical governance modeled on corporate systems. Vin’s Central argument is that modern civilization, especially in the West, has been steered into stagnation and decline by a rigid, overly idealistic belief in egalitarIainism and mass. Participation. According to this view, democracy is not the pinnacle of political evolution. It is a system that masks inefficiency, encourages manipulation, and creates the illusion of choice without any real control. Jarvin introduced the idea of neoism, a political model in which a nation state functions like a joint stock corporation run by a CEO, accountable only for performance, not popularity. In this model, the government is not elected, but managed like a business to many, it sounds dystopIain to others. It sounds like a brutally honest assessment of how things already work behind the curtain. This worldview also gave rise to one of vin’s most infamous concepts, the cathedral. In his framework, the cathedral refers to the intertwined network of elite institutions, including media, academia, and bureaucracy that shape cultural and political narratives. This system according to Jarvin controls society, not through laws or force, but through ideology, consensus, and cultural pressure. It is not orwell’s boots stomping on a face. It is soft power that feels like truth. Nick Land known for his cyberpunk, fused Accelerationist philosophy, took vin’s ideas and pushed them further Land gave the movement its name, the Dark enlightenment. His writings injected a darker, more philosophical edge. Tying these ideas to themes of posthumanism automation and the collapse of liberal ideals in the face of accelerating technology. Some in this school of thought, advocate for exit strategies. Such as private digital societies, independent city states, or breakaway corporate enclaves where governance is optimized, not voted on. Others envision a world where technology replaces outdated institutions altogether. It is a blueprint for governance in a time of increasing distrust and systemic breakdown. But what makes the Dark Enlightenment truly unsettling is not just its ideas. It is the mirror. It holds up to our current reality. It forces uncomfortable questions. Are we truly free, or are we just choosing between scripted outcomes? Are democratic leaders really accountable, or are they figureheads managed by deeper forces? And if the system is failing, what comes next? These are not conspiracy theories. They are the kinds of questions rising quietly in a culture that feels increasingly unstable. It is important to be clear. The dark Enlightenment is not a mainstream ideology, and many of its conclusions are controversial and provocative. Critics argue it promotes authoritarIainism, social stratification, and a rejection of basic civil liberties. And yet its critiques of political stagnation, media control, and the illusion of democratic power resonate with growing numbers of people who feel the system no longer serves them. The theory is a window into a radical re-imagining of power. One that suggests our current systems might not be sacred, just outdated. You do not have to agree with it, but understanding it might help you recognize where some of the world’s deeper currents are pulling. Stay curious because the future might not look like the past and some people are already coding what comes next. And that’s where all this is headed. And I wanna read a section from chapter one of your book from page 12, because it was so on point and it was like the penny dropped there because this process that you’re talking about, which is hiving off public functionality and basically constitutional sovereign functions, carving them off and distributing them to private parties who are opaque. That’s going on right now. And I wanna read just a couple sentences from the book. The sort of oh, okay, I see what’s going on. Given that Elon Musk was neither elected by Americans nor authorized by the representatives in Congress, the Doge projects represents a formal shift in political power from the public to the private sector. It is fundamentally a private sector dominated, think tech openly empowered to restructure fund federal agencies. And it goes on A technique would afford its leading figures, pecking order privileges. So it’s that this process is already underway. True. Yeah. Yeah. No, it’s and it’s, and I have to say it’s not just in the us It’s everywhere. Yeah. And then it continues. I wanna go on page 13. This gets into technocracy and sort of the more non-obvious features of technocracy. Technocrats. Unelected technocrats rather than politicIains set policy and technocracy is based on the belief that there are technological solutions to awe, social, economic, and political problems. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what we’re seeing going on right now for sure. Yeah. And there is a massive overlap between the dark enlightenment and technocracy. If you look at the dark enlightenment, the way that they suggest that sovereign corporations would be in charge of a realm. And that there would be a patchwork of realms controlled by sovereign corporation. So they’re talking about breaking up the nation state into a patchwork of realms, right? And creating a kind of a kind of network of realms, a patchwork of realms, they call it. If you, if, and that would be totally controlled by sovereign corporations. And the land spoke about this thing called gov Corps, which would be the, it’s not entirely clear, I have to say. One of the reasons that I wrote the book is because most of the things that they say is not entirely clear. So you really have to dig into the weeds of it to figure out. They use a lot of jargon and they use a lot of, they even use words that people don’t even know, like neo caramelization and re territorial and all this sort of jargon that they use. But essentially what it boils down to is smashing the nation’s state apart, carving it up, selling it off. Piecemeal to private corporations, then reconstituting, constituent that into a network. Yep. And then ruling that in a is set, having a centralized authoritarIain control over that, that is what they intend to do. And if you look and if you look at what a tech mate is, that’s pretty similar. Okay. So from an American point of view, what you’re talking about, the net effect of these changes you just discussed, is they want to destroy the consent of the governed. Is that fair? Yeah. They think Lan said that our sovereignty should be treated with derision. Wow. So we are nothing. We are nothing. To the, in their mindset. If that’s right, they wanna destroy the consent of the governed. In other words, you have no sovereignty. Your sovereignty is a joke. You are an asset on our balance sheet. Yeah. Really what you’re talking about from American point of view is just the open repeal of the Declaration of Independence. That’s what the whole Revolutionary War was fought over was. You are ex, you exerting control over us. You’re punitive you punish us, you steal our assets and all the rest. And we have no say of it. We try to have a say and we don’t have any say. And that was what causes revolution. So this is a very it’s ironic, and I’ll get to this in a bit, that it, that an Englishman is writing about the destruction of the Declaration of Independence. Yeah. Why didn’t this book come out of the us? I don’t know. I’m not blaming you or anything anyway. I wanna turn to another subject though. And that’s a gut feel I get when I watch a lot of these tech bros. When I see a guy like Peter Thiel. He can’t get through a sentence without getting tackled to the ground. It’s even simple sentences. He just, he can’t do it. I see Bill, Gates flailing about, talking about topics that he knows absolutely nothing about. Like he’s a supreme authority. I was glad to see in light of that sort of gut reaction you guys are pulling a con on me. My gut feel is I’m being conned here. I’m watching an act. And so I was glad to see in your book, very heavy stress that you put on the topic of deceptions and deception and deceptive practices. Talk about the role of deception and what the role it plays. And maybe a couple of examples of deception that we see in real time from the dark net technocrats such as ChristIainity and their push for the push in ChristIainity here or libertarIainism there. Te tell us about the role deception plays in those ultimately con jobs. If you think about what you’ve just noted there about the Dark Enlightenment, the idea that it essentially just destroys the Declaration of Independence and everything it means to be a sovereign individual, human being. It’s the end of it. That’s what they’re, that’s what they’re talking about. And yet the people that say they support this, I have a slight segue here. I did question in the book whether they really believe in things like the dark enlightenment. They openly support it. People like Mark Anderson said, I am an accelerationist, or no, I’ll rephrase that. He said, we are accelerationist, which means that they believe in the dark enlightenment, but. Whether they actually believe it or whether it’s just expedient to say that they have some sort of quasi intellectual underpinning for what they’re doing. I don’t know. I question that, but nonetheless, they’re openly supporting such a thing as the dark enlightenment, which is just about the most authoritarIain, fascistic kind of model of governance that you could possibly imagine. Why don’t we just come right out and call? It is it’s a plantation. That’s what they’re pushing is a plantation and they’re calling it libertarIainism. They are calling it libertarIainism. It’s and I have to say getting away with it as well and getting away with it. So deception is part and parcel of this push towards digital dictatorship. Absolutely. Yeah. One of the things that I also explore quite a bit in the book is this notion of the decentralization to recentralization trick, which people like Bella Za, who wrote the network state they tie themselves in. And one of the reasons that I think people like the, and stumble over very simple questions is because if they were honest about what they’re doing, it they just couldn’t say what they, they couldn’t say it without being, probably, without being arrested. So what do you think about the use of artificial intelligence or lavender by the IDF in identifying Hamas targets? And secondly, do you agree with Elon Musk about that the population decline is a risk for humanity?
Look, I, again I’m not.
I with without going into all the de I’m not on top of all the details of what’s going on in Israel because my bias is to defer to Israel. It’s not for us to, to second guess every everything. And I believe that broadly the IDF gets to decide what it wants to do and that they’re broadly in the right. And that’s the perspective I come back to. And if I fall into the trap of arguing you on every detailed point I’m actually gonna, I would actually be conceding the broader issue that the Middle East should be micromanaged from Cambridge. And I think that’s just simply absurd. And so I’m not gonna concede that point.
And what was your the other
So they can’t be honest. So they have to lie and they have, they are tied at tying themselves up in knots. So at one point the net, the network state concept is quite important because that is very much the way that it is being rolled out globally. But one of the thing, one of the things that is, that Bellagio Strand says in the book is that the new system will be different because it the new system that he wants will be different because it will be decentralized. Now that is a libertarIain principle, of course, that the notion of decentralized government, and it’s not just a li libertarIain principle it’s a small c conservative principle as well. The idea of localized governance makes sense to a lot of people but. What he then says is that once it’s everything has been decentralized, it will be that it will then be recentralized. So hang on a minute. So you are talking about, you’re talking about devolving governance in some way so that you can then exert centralized, authoritarIain control over all of it. That’s the opposite of decentralization, right? That’s not decentralization. Yeah. A another deception. Yeah. Just a massive deception that you talk about. 180 degree deception that appears again and again in the book is this notion that these technocrats come out and they’re like, oh, where are we anti-global this? We don’t want a new world order. And all these globalists controlling everything. But in fact, they themselves are puppets of the globalists. Yeah. It’s ridiculous really. But, Peter Thiel is one of the people that has railed against he calls global governance the Armageddon or the Antichrist. And yet he’s on the steering committee of the Builder Berg Group with Alex Karp, who then they both run Palantir, which it, which has basically taken the Total Information Awareness project started by John Poindexter, started by Poindexter. When how far back does this go? Yeah. That was about 2000. 2000 when 2001, I’m gonna say. But certainly by 2003 in Q Tel CIA’s investment arm had.
Had they magic Palantir into existence?
I yeah, they, I think that’s not unfair to say they certainly invested heavily in Palantir which then ran the Total Information Awareness project really on behalf of the CIA for six years. So I think that was six years or so that, or maybe more that the CIA was Palantir’s only client. So that’s where Palantir comes from. We’re gonna take a closer look tonight at Privacy and Security. We all know there’s a debate in the country, thus giving the government greater freedom to keep an eye on people. Others would say Spy on people in the name of security undermine the basic American commitment to individual freedom. The Pentagon is currently testing something called the Total Information Awareness Program. The American Civil Liberties Union calls it the most extensive surveillance program in history. And what adds to the controversy is the man who’s being named to run it. Here’s ABC’s Jackie Jut. This is what the government would monitor, where Americans travel, what they buy, how much money they withdraw, electronic records from all of those activities, and more dump directly into the Pentagon driver’s license information about where people live. Phone numbers conceivably you could add in information that’s obtained by law enforcement. The Pentagon believes that by putting all this into supercomputers, suspicious patterns masked as everyday activities would emerge, you’re looking for trends and transactions that are associated with some potential terrorist act. That’s what you’re looking for and you’re trying to put those pieces together. Supporters of the Total Information Awareness Project, say private industries such as credit rating companies, already collects a lot of this material, so why not let the government take a look? We owe more to the victims of September 11 than just to say, oh, yeah, we did a bad job last time, but it’s too dangerous to try to do a better job next time. Normally though, authorities would have to get a warrant for electronic surveillance. The big deal is that the government is proposing to arrest people on the basis of this, that the government’s proposing to label people as terrorists to have an impact upon their lives in a very directed, significant way. Not only is the idea controversial, so is the person who came up with it and is running the pilot Project Admiral, do you swear? President Reagan’s national security advisor, John Poindexter, was convicted, then cleared on a technicality of lying to Congress during the Iran Contra scandal. The test run now underway could take a few years and real information, say officials is not being used, but the Pentagon is clearly moving to create the largest electronic eye ever to look at any and all Americans, Jackie, Judd, A, b, c, news, Washington. So in other words this note, these guys, these liberties alleged libertarIains pushed this notion that these rugged individuals, these tough guys, these capitalists, they survived competition. They rose to the top because they were the biggest, the strongest, the smartest, and the best. They were backed by the government the entire time. Yeah, that’s a huge deception. No, yeah, I know. It’s immense. And I, there isn’t anything that I could find that anything with any substance that’s important that I could find that they’ve said or they’ve done that is as it appears and is honest. There just isn’t any, there’s none. It’s, it is total deception from start to finish. It’s total deception and it’s thorough and it’s everywhere. I wanna read another quote from the book and get your comment on this. This is a, this is an episode that happened earlier this year early on in the Trump administration. The official propaganda narrative goes like this. This is talking about a fallout and an alleged fallout between Trump and Musk. The official narrative goes like this. Elon Musk was furious because Trump’s one big beautiful bill act. The government’s 2025 budget bill reduced taxpayer subsidies for electric vehicle manufacturers, including Tes Tesla goes on. Musk was said to have reacted angrily by publishing his June 5th ex post, in which he announced that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. Tell us about that whole yarn. Yeah it’s nonsensical for start because Musk ended his tenure at the head of the Doge. On schedule as planned 180 days into office. There was no, nothing happened. When Musk there was some contention because there was suspicions that he’d been taking drugs on the campaign trail and people were a bit upset about that. But Musk not Trump. I I got it. But when he was there was a public parting of waves when Musk left on schedule as planned. Left the Doge project.
And Trump even gave him a gold key, a symbolic gold key to the White House.
So their best they’re obviously Trump, and both JD Vance said, we will be working, we will carry on working with Elon. They the media couldn’t really deny that because they’d done a press conference where they said exactly that. So there wasn’t much they could do about that. One week later, we are supposed to believe that Trump and Musk hate each other so much. That that Musk is now trying to some of the ridiculous things that were said, for example, that he’s an existential threat to the presidency having paid $250 million to put the president in the office in the first place.
The, there was this threat and therefore Musk had outed trumps
and I think there’s very much a thing about saying, about Trump’s involvement with the Epstein and the, and his exposure in the Epstein files. And then we have the big debacle about, about whether or not they’re gonna release the Epstein files or not. As if those files need to be released in order of us to know that Trump was heavily involved with Epstein. We don’t need, we already know that. The files to know that. When you look at the photos guy, you’re in the photos with these arms, with their arms around each other with young checks all over the place. It’s not, it’s pretty obvious. He’s, it’s, yeah. The whole thing’s a joke. But in general, generally speaking, when you have manufactured drama, like this manufactured controversy, which is completely synthetic, what are those controversies designed to hide? It’s to hard what they’re doing and what they’re actually doing. If you look at the we’ve already discussed what the Doge did, but it also created the framework for the inter to, for companies like Palantir to come in and take all the data from disparate data sets, like the Department of Justice, department of Defense, to take them, to take all the data, homogenize them, make it interoperable so that they can create a centralized, unified data structure that controls many different parts of the US government. That’s and also you would have to say, harvest all the data that is stored in note by those departments which is the personal and private data of US citizens. So that’s what they’re doing, that, that’s what they’re, that’s what has happened and that’s what they’re doing. But instead, people talk about whether or not. Elon Musk has fallen out with Donald Trump. Yeah, it’s to totally irrelevant. It doesn’t just meaningless to get involved with the personal drama he said. She said, rather than with the fundamental issues. That’s, it’s basically a distraction. I hear what I hear you saying. Yeah. I wanna, I’ll turn to a topic which is a subject, which is how close are we now to having the trap sprung to having the trap thrown and living in a digital dictatorship and not being able to escape the system of slavery that you’re describing. How close to realizing that are we right now, how many moves do the powers that be need to achieve the plantation that they’re after? Are there just, are there a few, I dunno, let’s call ’em sufficient conditions for destroying sovereignty, for destroying go de Democratic governance for good that you can identify now. I think unfortunately technologically. The infrastructure has already been built. It’s al it’s already there. But their massive problem they’ve got is that they have to somehow entice us into play, is into going along with it. ’cause ultimately this is a behavioral control system. Once our digital identity is linked to programmable digital currency, then they will have total behavioral control over the humanity. Okay. Let me get at another other way. What are the things that, what are the biggest impediments to achieving digital dictatorship that exist right now? W we are the the people, if we don’t go along with it if, for example it’s slightly different outside of the US but certainly in the US if the people of the US demand that their constitution is upheld, then they’ve got a problem. They can’t go ahead with the with their plans, for example. Not a, not accepting and not using stable coins and demanding that they are treated as a currency, a national currency. ’cause that’s what they are. Cash is a big impediment. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah oh, what could we do? What can people do? Yeah, sure. So people can, I think the most important thing is people realize the power that they’ve got in their wallets, right? The decisions that people make about what they buy, who they, let’s look at it this way. There’s a reason why they want to control what you buy. Where you can buy it, who you buy it from, and how much money you can save and how, because once they’ve got control of that, they’ve got control of you. The flip side of that is that if you consciously decide, make those decisions that you are not gonna support this digital dictatorship that you are going to use cash, that you are going to be as self-sufficient as possible, that you are going to buy from people whose values you respect that you are going to do business with people who you consider to be honest and trustworthy. Then if we exercise that power, that is precisely the power that they’re trying, they’re desperate to take away from us, right? So clearly that’s the power that they are most fearful of. So that’s the power that we should exercise. In other words, when you see somebody like August and Carson’s the head of the bank for international settlements get up, did you see that, that speech? Yeah. Where he was discussing the distant distinction between cash and central bank digital currency. Yeah. Did what did he say? He said at the moment, I think he was talking about a hundred dollars note, wasn’t he? But he was referencing pesos as well. But he said, at the moment, we don’t know where that expression of a central bank’s liability is used or who’s using it or where there is where they’re using it. But with Central Bank digital currency, which is just a that just means programmable digital currency of any kind. But with programmable digital currency not only will we know who’s spending what, where they’re spending it and why and what they bought, we will have the power to enforce control. I’m paraphrasing right. In other words we can enforce our own rules. He says we have our own rules. We can enforce ’em, our sal, yeah. In other words, a lot of times these guys, they give themselves away and they tell you what they’re after and they tell you what they don’t like. They don’t like not knowing where the money is and what you’re spending it on, and the inability to control it. And they want rules to be able to control what you spend your money on and what amount, when and where. Now. Isn’t that when Jerome wasn’t Jerome Powell on that call? Was it When Jerome Powell, yeah. J Jer Powell was his dummy out it, it was on, it was in his diplomatic way he did, it was October of 2020. It was during the pandemic. Yeah. And Powell was sitting there and he is I think there are a lot of advantages of Central Bank digital currency, but I think we also need to be concerned about privacy and all the rest. He had to make a token objection in his diplomatic way, which he did. But he was, you’re right, Powell absolutely was freaked out because Augustine Power, the head of the bank for international settlements, had just gotten up and had shown his true colors and revealed his blood lust for total control. So what you were talking about in this book is not some hypothetical reality. It is. It’s a reality that is rolling out. Right now in real time. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And one of the thing I, this isn’t included in the book, but one thing that I wish I had now, but there was a very important interview with talking about how they view these people that they’re called Neo Reactionary. So people like the and Musk, and they’re part of the Neoreaction Neoreactionary movement. The was asked, it was a very simple question do you want humanity to continue? Was the question that he was asked and he couldn’t? So yes, no, he couldn’t. Yes. No, I don’t know. Those are the answers. He couldn’t answer it. He couldn’t answer it. So that gives you an idea. If somebody asked me that question, I’m sure you, it’s yes is a fairly simple, but he couldn’t answer that question. You would prefer the human race to endure.
You’re hesitating.
Yeah. I, yes. I don’t know. I would. I would this is a long hesitation. There’s so many. There is a long hesitation. There’s so many questions. And plus shoot because they don’t want us to continue to be the, I mean this c seriously, if you look at their work and what they say and what they don’t want us to continue to be the species that we are. They don’t want us to continue to be that species.
They’re not for self-determination by us at all.
I wanna turn back to an issue you raised, which is governance and what the system may look like. Right now we have a system of nation states and of sovereignty and most throughout the west, mostly democracies. Your book goes into what is coming and what is coming to replace nation states. Why don’t you go and explain a little bit about what coming, I guess you call it tech Nate. What are we talking about with Tenet? What sort of realms are we looking at? I think we need to look very much at special economic zones that are proliferating around the world. At the moment, I think there are something like 5,000 special economic zones of various types, and they go from basically just subsidized warehousing costs and some tax breaks for foreign companies to set up business in a particular zone all the way to charter cities, which are privately run zones. So these are eec, especially economic zones, broadly speaking, you could say are deregulated zones with their own, often with their own jurisdiction. For not only regulation, but things like policing those regulations and enforcing the rules that whatever it is that they want to enforce. For example, a good example of that would be Neo in Saudi Arabia, where Neo is both a project city, the of the people are probably familiar with the line in this big modern thing that they’re building. But Neo is also the name of the wider special economic zone. Now, Saudi Arabia is not known for its
legal tolerance.
And yet Neo is a jurisdiction unto itself. They don’t have to obey sha a law in Neo. Neo is outside of the Saudi ArabIain state’s legal system. It is its own jurisdiction. Even though geographically it is wholly within Saudi Arabia. Is that what you’re saying? Yeah. Yeah. So it’s within Saudi Arabia, but it’s, but jurisdictionally, it’s outside of Saudi. Saudi. So this is, it sounds a, that sounds a lot to me, like the bank for international settlements is, it exists inside of Basel, Switzerland. Exactly. It’s jurisdictionally independent. You can’t reach inside and get anything in secret. So these special economic zones are proliferating around the world, as I said. Now there are particular ones. So there’s a Peter Thiel and the, and his entourage and his partners, people like Mark Anderson. And they are invested in a company called Promos Capital. And there’s, and also I suspect that they’re behind Knee Way Capital as well. But these two capital investment firms, venture investment firms, they are. Very keen on the notion of charter cities. So these are private jurisdiction, privately owned and run and operated cities. Now they’ve started various projects. For example, they’ve got one in Nigeria called it.
And there was a quote, and I’m just looking for the quote here.
I can’t remember the professor’s name, but he’s a US based Professor of African Studies who just openly said that it’s within, they’ve created this thing called the NigerIain government has created this thing called the LE Free Zone. And what this professor said is that when you are inside the zone, you are outside the NigerIain state, but the lucky free zone is territorially inside the NigerIain state. Then you’ve got, and then at the same time very much on the longest, same idea. And one of his executive orders as well, when Trump first came into office was this notion of creating what he called Freedom Cities. Now, freedom Cities essentially would be if they proceed as envisaged, and they’re again backed by pr, promos, capital, the charter cities in institute, the Freedom Cities Coalition, which is all backed by the same players that you and I are discussing. If they go ahead as planned, they will be deregulated free zones of innovation with their own jurisdiction within the United States. Wait, so let me get this straight. If they’re deregulated these places, whether they’re in the US or whether they’re in Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or wherever they are. I take it that people are free to do whatever they want in these places if you happen to live in one. They I think that currently saying they’ll have to abide by federal laws, so they or if they’re outside of the US they’ll have to abide by the laws, so you can’t just kill people. But so for example, in Honduras, in
Prospera, which is one of these, one of these freedom cities that has been
set up in Honduras currently Peter Thiel is investing in unregulated genetic experimentation, gene editing in Prospera because I see, so the powers that beat, the powers that be are free to do whatever they want. Yeah. But what about the man on the street? Can he do whatever? What money is he using? Can he do whatever he wants or there’s some restrictions perhaps. Yeah. So the idea is and this is very, and that’s why I said that the, I think the book the network state is quite important because Biza is very much linked into this neoreactionary movement. And he’s also obviously very closely associated with Theo and Promos capital. He’s on the board of promos capital. So he wrote that all value goes digital. All val, all value goes digital. So every asset, every not, and it’s not just asset, all currency is digital. Every asset is digital, tokenized, stored on a permissioned blockchain. So the founders of the network state, or Freedom City or Charter City, the founders are the equivalent of what in our current system. CEOs so that the CEO of the sovereign state, so these would be created as sovereign states run by a sovereign corporation whose CEO would be essentially the king. Essentially the king. Do the people living there, are they like shareholders who have a vote and what goes on? No. All value goes digital, including you. So you would be a ta you would agree initially when you joined or was subject to the sovereign state, you would sign a smart contract or agree to a smart contract where essentially you hand over all of your assets. Control of all of your assets and all of your personal income and every and everything to, to the founder. The founder. Now that they’ll obviously frame it in the sense that they’re good custodIains of your assets and your, but nonetheless you, it’s when everything is digital on a permissioned ledger, which is what they are talking about, then obviously only those with access permissions have control of whatever is on that ledger. So you’re gonna go from a system where you’re a voter and you have some control of your destiny to, you’re an asset on a ledger fair. Yes. Yeah. That’s the idea. Yeah. Yeah. And you’re gonna have to, you’ll sign, you’re gonna give it away. That’s what I hear you saying, people are gonna be deceived into giving away their own sovereignty because they think it’s libertarIain, they have managed to sell this as what they talk about. It is governance as a service. And this was something that was mentioned in the dark enlightenment, and this was something that’s mentioned in the network state, this idea that you buy in governance. So Sure, you can’t, you don’t have any kind of influence or control over that governance because it’s something that you are, you agree to be subjected to. So what the, what LAN said was he took talk, spoke about this idea called free exit. So free exit would means, alright, I don’t like the way you are running things, so I am free to leave and go and buy a governance service from someone else.
That’s all well and good, obviously if you have the

the ability to do that.
But seen as most of us are tied to where we live for all kinds of reasons. Not just financial reasons we have people that we love and that we care for. We can’t just up sticks and move
vast majority, billions of us.
We can’t just uptick and move because the government is oppressing us. If that was true, then nobody would be ever be oppressed, would they? ’cause they’d just leave and go somewhere u utopia. But, and that’s so what they’re talking about is nonsense. What they are talking about is a highly hierarchical society. Because if you have sufficient assets to purchase what they call sufficient sovereignty. If you can buy sovereignty because you are wealthy, then you know your degree of sovereignty will be greater than somebody who can’t afford to buy so much sovereignty. But it’ll also be subject to the whims of the people who were running opaquely, running the monetary system in whatever technique you happen to be living in. Isn’t that right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So you may be rich today, you’re gonna be poor tomorrow if they just start deleting your money willy-nilly because you said something wrong on social media. Yeah. And it is the perfect system for picking winners and losers in all
not just for people that might say the wrong thing.
It is to extrapolate this further, if you think about it, we, that if they managed to create the system, and they’re certainly putting in the infrastructure that would enable that to happen. Potentially there, there would be no need for law. There would no be, no need for government. There wouldn’t be no need for policy. Go. Government policy would be superfluous. Oh, there’s laws that are being enforce. They’re just not laws that you can send it to or certainly wrote. Yeah they, they would get, but because what everything would be controlled by AI algorithm. So you can pro, pro program the algorithm to control what people do, what they say, where they go, even to the extent of that, will start shaping what they think. You, and especially if you can make them into cyborgs and put genetic in genetically enhance them or put cyborg implants into their heads. All of this rests on the deception is part and parcel of the sales game. Here. I wanna read something from page 274. It’s chapter 15 of your book. That landed with me. And that’s the role of deception in what you’re talking about. The establishment of these techniques you write, while the neo nerds are constructing their gov type gov type techniques, the public must be kept in the dark. Government has to look like it’s functioning as usual to head off a public uprising against the total and transformation to neo feudalism that is taking place under everyone’s noses. Yeah that’s a great way of putting what’s going on. So that’s to say to people I talk to people that are skeptical about all this stuff. And I’m like you gotta read Iain Davis’s book. He is, you’re outlining something that’s going on and it’s going on in real time, and your book provides example after example of how what’s going on. It’s taking place in real time. It may be an e embryonic form now, and it may be pitched as for your benefit or for your convenience, but it’s most certainly what you’re talking about is in the title, the digital Dictatorship. If we look at laws that are being passed at the moment, for example in the UK we’ve got the Online Safety Act. They’ve got the Digital Services Act in the eu. You are now talking about, in the US they’re talking about bringing in the Kids Online Safety Act and all this kind of stuff that is all about digital control, that is all about dig digital control of what we say and who we can communicate with in the digital space. Now, they want to create a society which is that the parallel facsimile of which exists only in a digital space. There is no other, there is no other space. So in terms of you, do you think of the kind of social interaction that we have at the moment, which things like lockdowns stop us being able to do so they’re talking about. Having a society, a digital tokenized society which is totally controlled by, even they call them city brains. One, one of the, one of the things that they’re talking about is in, and certainly they’ve done this in places like Shenzhen in China, where you’ve got, you, you’ve got companies that oversee a city brain that links together all social functions of the city and monitors it from a central kind of monitoring perspective that, that pretty much controls everything that everyone does within that city. Now if we have this patchwork of realms that, that is being constructed through things like special economic zones and that starts to take root within nation states, one of the concepts that, that they’re very keen on promoting. And certainly one of the things that’s within the network state is the idea that the people that are behind it, the private investors crowdfund and crowdsource the development of their own city states, their own free city states. If you, if your crowdfunders are Peter Thiel, Elon Musk Larry Ellison. If they’re crowdfunding your city state, within a nation state, pretty soon your city state is gonna have far more resources than the nation state. So it’s like a kind of parasite that is sucking resources out of your, out of the nation state, weakening the nation state. And you know what these things work like when they first start rolling this stuff out and they are rolling it out around the world, first, it’s being sold to the business community as being an, as being innovation hubs where they don’t have, they’re not subject to the regulations and the, any of the regulations that they’re subject to by, under, under national government. So it’s enticing the business community to get on board. But then when they get to the point of enticing us to get onboard, get on board, one of the ruse they’re using is selling it as libertarIainism, which it most certainly is not. And the, but the other one is that this is your opportunity to break away from the yoke of oppressive government overreach. So you think, oh great I can and I am right Certain that as they, when they get to the point of enticing us to go and live there live in one of these city states, that’s the way we will be. It’ll be sold to us with it’s just perfect convenience. We don’t have to we could, we get everything we want if we go there, but unfortunately, the agreement that you have to make. To live in one of these city states that they’re building. Is that you will give away all your sovereignty. You’ll just hand it over to them, lock, stock, and barrel. So isn’t it true that one of the motivations of people in power now, which is, let’s just call it the joint venture between old line money and the tech bros, isn’t, don’t, they have a huge motivation now to make things under the current system as miserable as possible? Yeah yeah I’ve, there’s already, I mean there’s the, you can go back sort of 10, 15 years. There have been papers written about the the AI controlled government, the agen state where governance is controlled by algorithm. Yeah. Some people call it algo or whatever, and that is very firmly in their mind. That is exactly Mark Anderson said that AI is their philosopher’s stone. You’ve used his name a couple times, re refresh people on who? Mark Anderson is. Mark Anderson is their head of Anderson Horowitz, which is arguably the biggest tech investment venture capitalist firm in the world. And he’s knee deep in the Trump administration too. Oh, yeah. He’s been appointed, or he has been instrumental in appointing people to the Trump administration and nobody elected Mark Anderson. Yeah I always see us, rather distinct head. When I hear the name Mark Anderson, I know who he is. Yeah. But I’ve heard his name a bunch of times. Let me ask you this, how, let’s talk about a timeline. We’re about to go into 2026. We’re a few days away from that. When do you think what are we looking at in terms of a year when the trap would be finally sprung if we don’t do anything right now? I think, I’m not entirely clear why, but I think 20, 20 30 is a is a pivotal point. They’ve obviously, my view is that if you look at the rollout of the infrastructure globally
which is.
Already largely in place. So in interoperability, using a unified ledger of some sort is already possible. There have already there’ve been plenty of experiments already done to, to make this system work around the world, not just the bis have been formative but the eu, the British government the Bank of England, the, there’s been plenty of experiments to make sure this will work. Now that means that what they really need, one of the problems that they’ve got is data centers. They need in order, if this is gonna happen the way that they envisage, there’d be a massive increase in energy demand just to service the data centers, which advances the agenda of making life miserable by driving up energy costs for the man on the street. Yeah. And which is why Trump announced that the the government’s kind of acquiescence to the Stargate project, although the Stargate is privately financed. But again it’s creating the regulatory framework to enable it to happen.
If, so 2030, I think pretty sure that the whole system will be set up.
We’re already seeing the push for digital identity in the UK in the eu or as close as they can possibly beat it, actually rolling out Central Bank digital currency linked to a digital identity. They’ve already done that. So they, so this is going ahead, this is the point that I stress a lot in the book, right? This is, you can, and that’s why I give so many examples. This isn’t theoretical, part of it’s theoretical. ’cause part of it is about this wacky philosophy they’ve got. But the other part the practical application of what they’re doing is not theoretical because there are so many examples of this system being built
and 2030 looks like they want to have all their ducks lined up.
They want it all in place, ready to go 2030. I gotta tell you, Iain, your book is such an eye-opener and it’s really on a personal note, it helped me get off the fence in, in my own work on war for bank ocracy, which I’m gonna get back to that, but your book reading that was like, okay, now it clarified a lot and it helped me a lot. And it also is something else I wanna mention about your book. I think there are a lot of people out there, I know a lot of people personally who think, oh you guys. You’re so paranoid about this. You believe in these conspiracies and whatnot, and yet these same people who might be skeptical toward the alternative media and toward people like you and me, they know something’s wrong and they’re at least willing to admit that the system is rigged. And I think your book I’ve sent your book to a couple people who are, they have that sort of skepticism, but they’re not really willing to make the leap yet of, to where you and I have been for quite some time. Your book, because it is so well footnoted in research and so well written, is a great way to, to nudge people over the line and get ’em onto our side of this fight. And it is an existential fight to be clear. So I want to congratulate you on writing the book. How long is the line of people who are looking to get movie rights into dark technocracy?
It’s a very short line, non-existent line is I, I. I’m really glad.
Thank you very much. It’s very you to say that. ’cause your work as well is one of the things that has that, that has informed me over the years. So it’s it’s nice to be able to return the favor a little bit. That is the point. The point is, and one something that I’ve always stressed in my work, and I know exactly what you mean about being considered fringe or whatever, is that I have tried consistently since I’ve been doing this and I’ve been doing this about 10 bit, bit more years, 15 years or something
is to say that, look, what I’m referencing here is in
the public domain, right? This is public domain information. This isn’t, I’m using their documents. That’s what I do on my channel. You words your words, you said this. Yeah. This is what they said, this is what they’ve done. There are whole, there are massive global think tanks that have produced books. About this idea. Yeah. And it and yet, if you try and point that point a mainstream media journalist in that direction and ask them just to consider this information it’s as you well know it’s an almost impossible task, probably because the editors, their editors know that they can’t publish that kind of thing. In the UK we’ve got, I’m talking about pe person to person appeal, I fr friends and family. Oh yeah. I’m seeing a lot the resistance, like you’re just described in so far as journalists current, that resistance as far as people is concerned, acquaintances, friends, family, it’s coming down, it’s coming down fast. People know something’s wrong and I think your book is a great way to push ’em in the right direction. Yeah, I really hope so. Because that is, that’s the kind of the main focus of what I’m doing. I just want people to consider. Just consider this information because the problem is they’re not gonna get it while they’re sitting there watching. CNN is not gonna tell them. Yeah, the BBC’s not gonna tell them. Let me ask you this, as we kinda wind down here. What is the best place for people to find your work? Yeah it’s Iain davis.com and you’re quite right. My name spelled with two i’s IAIN davis.com, all one word. My substack, which is iaindavis.substack.com. To get the book it’s all one word, the technocratic dark state.com. And that will take you to the publisher’s page. And the publishers are Paper Cut Publishing run by Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb. And I write individual pieces for unlimited hangout at Whitney Webb’s site. I also have, my work is spread about quite a bit. I’m quite fortunate that a lot of other outlets distribute my work. So the off guard in particular technocracy News and Trends, these are other outlets as well. You pretty much, if you put in Iain Davis, you’ll probably find a site that’s got something that I’ve written. Very good. On behalf of Solari Report, I wanna thank you for being here on behalf of my own channel. Best Evidence. Thank you for doing this, and thank you for the enormous undertaking that writing that book had to have been. But the book is absolutely dynamite, and I urge people to go out and get yourself multiple copies. Give them out for Christmas. Now’s the time. This interview will post on solar, like I said, on December 18th. It’ll be after Christmas, after the New York, when it shows up on my channel’s best evidence. But Iain Davis’ book is such an eye-opener. I thank you for your work and I thank you for your time here today. And happy Merry Christmas to you, sir. And to you John. Thank you very much for inviting me. It’s been a pleasure. Great. All right. That is it for the Solari Report. Thanks for watching and we will see you again in the new year.

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The Technocratic Dark State

December 18, 2025

By John Titus

In early November, Solari published my review of Iain Davis’s book, The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship—a book I consider an absolute must-read.

Davis is an independent investigative UK journalist and author who publishes at his own website as well as at other New Media outlets such as Unlimited Hangout. The Technocratic Dark State is his fourth book. As I wrote in my review, The Technocratic Dark State “provided so many penny-drop moments that I lost count of them.” For that reason, I was eager to do an interview with him to dive into some of his most critical insights.

Our discussion starts with how money creation relates to the “tech bros,” with Davis’s compelling argument being that the partnership between old-line money creators and Big Tech facilitates two important goals: the continuation of U.S. dollar hegemony and central control of the population. We also explore the concept of “interoperability,” a term I once wrongly dismissed as an empty buzzword.

From there, we take a look at the so-called Dark Enlightenment, consider the tech bros’ use of deception, and discuss features of the digital gulag, including digital IDs, as well as Davis’s ideas about how to resist.

On the topic of resistance, Davis fittingly ends his book with a useful reminder from 16th-century French philosopher and magistrate Étienne de La Boétie:

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”

Links

The Technocratic Dark State

Iain Davis: The Disillusioned Blogger (website)

Iain Davis Substack

Iain Davis (Unlimited Hangout)

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18 Comments

  1. Catherine and John,
    I am on my third listening to this! I have been a fan of Iain for years and have his book on my Christmas list! Ordering a few of them this week. Great interview, it puts the pieces into place so it’s easier to see the horrifying road ahead so we can have a chance to stop it. Like Catherine’s pastor said, “If we can face it, God can fix it.”
    Thank you,
    Jennifer

  2. Excellent question John T. right out of the gate! Why doesn’t the old money snuff out the Tech Bros!. I love it! Thank you. I had to comment. Now back to listening.

  3. John, I don’t understand how Stablecoins are legal. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution has two items related to money, that Congress has power over.
    1. To coin Money and regulate the Value thereof
    2. To provide punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current coin of the United State.

    By taking stablecoin out of the government, they are not coining it, nor can they determine if it is being counterfeit or, for that matter, stolen. They are abandoning one of the few powers granted to the Federal government and not performing their fiduciary duty.

  4. Great interview questions John! About the videoclip at the 16 minute mark. Am I correct it suggests that electronic medical records/ HIPAA protected data is being linked (made interoperable) to the BIS envisioned global system? If so, do you know where that stands currently in the U.S.?

  5. The technates Iain described would need a way to keep law and order, even if it’s a set of algorithms to train AI enforcers. Zionists have proposed the 7 Noahide Laws. The laws are vague so I took a closer look and found what appears to be a 2-tiered system with multiple sublaws, easily interpreted to be incompatible with Christianity. Hoping you or others on Solari with background/training in law could provide me clarification.

  6. Excellent interview, John! You clearly, in layman’s terms connected the dots. Keep going and thank you for your work!

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