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BIG TECH CRASH THREATENS TO WIPE OUT AMERICAN AND WORLD ECONOMIES

by Brett Stevens

We have known for some time that Big Tech is going down, and that like the last two crashes, it will take down the economy with it.

The first dot-com crash came right after the 1990s ended when people figured out that all this gee-whiz stuff did not actually sell products. The next kaboom came just after mobile internet came about, and was somewhat obscured by the larger financial crisis that it exacerbated. The next crash will rip out even more of our economy.

BANNON PLANNING TO NEUTRALIZE SOCIAL MEDIA BIAS

Zuckerburg's plans to brainwash the masses faces opposition from Bannon.


White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is a man of big ideas and his next big one is to combat the liberal bias of internet companies like Facebook and Google by treating them as public utilities and monopolies. This would mean imposing tighter regulations on them, making it harder for them to behave in the partisan left-leaning way that they have in the past.

Bannon's intentions emerged after the tech-focused on-line mag The Intercept reported on the story, citing three anonymous sources that have reportedly discussed the issue with Bannon.

THE ALT-RIGHT AND THE DIALECTIC OF "HYPERREALITY"


There have been a slew of articles lately that have been fumbling around trying to get a hold on this thing we call the “Alt-Right.” Good luck with that! Many of these have been reactionary pieces for mainstream ed-ops. The most notable was by the part-Jewish homosexual Milo Yiannopoulos, who has taken it upon himself to wear the mantle of Alt-Right pundit.

ARYAN WOMEN IN WHEAT FIELDS

"So that the beauty of the white woman will not disappear from the wheat field."

There is a hilarious Facebook page entitled "Aryan Women In Wheat Fields" that is well worth checking out, aptly parodying the white-knighting aesthetic tendencies among some White Nationalists, whereby white hotties in traditional garb posing soulfully in natural settings are endlessly fetishized, and their images promulgated as a clarion call to racial pride (as if beauty didn't exist among other races, and as if the large majority of mediocre-looking white people didn't more accurately represent the white phenotype in general).

PRUDERY IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES


What a fascinating era we live in! On the one hand homosexuals can get married, march down the high street in leather thongs (or less), and proclaim their "pride," as children twerk for their pleasure, while on the other hand major social media companies seem as prudish as elderly maiden aunts at a Victorian church meeting.

'THE PATRIARCHY' AND PROPER MANHOOD

Be a "man of steel," not a "playa"


Recently The Patriarchy, a Facebook page geared towards young nationalist men, ran a series of posts, each of which featured an eye-catching picture of a highly attractive young woman possessed of an apparently impeccable traditionalist orientation and mindset. In each case, the text below the comely lass took the form of a pep talk: “Come on lads, don’t give up! Play your cards right, get your shit together, and something like this could be yours!!!”

Responses to these posts, which I am paraphrasing here, ranged from  expressions of sullenly cynical Return of Kings-esque bon mots (“No way a girl like that really exists in the West – these days, they’re all a bunch of fat, skanky liberal feminist sluts!!!”) to effusions of simple mouth-agape admiration (“Whoa, she’s HOT!!!”) to displays of good-naturedly brazen, jovial braggadocio (“Get away from her, you bunch of losers… she’s MINE!”), to general declarations of approval with the overall message of the post (“What an inspiring speech! I won’t give up!”), each post more emphatic than the last (as signified here by the copious exclamation marks).

And I suppose it was all somewhat touching, in a way. The editor in question (I presume a slightly older, though still rather young man, perhaps in his early 30s) wished to instruct his youthful comrades not to despair, because dark as things may seem, victory is actually within their grasp; “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” and all that. But I nevertheless found something about the scene quite unsettling; watching the feeding frenzy of commenters, each desperately tearing away a digestible message from the bewitching images on display, reminded me that even among those pockets of resistance to the cultural miasma that is the rancid mainstream, an air of conspicuously degraded sensualism still pervades.

EMOPOLITIKAL DOMINANCE AND THE GEOPOLITICIZATION OF THE INTERNET

Some smart phones protesting with their human carriers.


Back in February, around the time of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, I wrote an article Let the Internet Clone Wars Begin.

The point of the article was that America, either as a conscious entity or as an unfocused manifestation of its evil essence, exerts an undue amount of its power through its internet hegemony; and that any nation, civilization, or ideology determined to stand up to this, needs to construct its own alternative systems.