Dear Friends,
It seems to me, as the leaders of our institutions discredit those institutions, it’s up to us to create parallel systems. Not to replace… but to create competition. Today we’re seeing the rise of the non traditional press. With citizen journalists and blogs exposing stories that the mockingbird media have been paid to suppress. This both discredits the legacy media and gives credence to the alternative press. The reason the principals of our institutions, judges in our courts, bureaucrats at the NIH, and national media conglomerate executives can act in ways that obliterate their institution’s reputations… is because there’s no competition. We do, however, see the first stirrings of competition. The alternative media, arbitration, and citizen scientists like AFLDS are examples.
There may be dozens of news stations but almost all are owned by five corporations. The rest are considered the new media. That’s why their coverage can be superimposed and it doesn’t lose coherence. Blogs, OAN, and others are targets of vitriol and hate from the legacy media and indeed the entire expert class. Not simply because they are an alternative to the payola press, but because they expose the experts lies so often. As with the IPCC Climategate scandal, Covid didn’t come from a pangolin, and the vaccine was neither safe nor effective… among many other lies. As the mockingbird media was pushing the lie the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, the new media was exposing that as the fabrication it was. If anyone needs meaningful competition, it’s the press.
The bureaucrats at the NIH, CDC, and WHO were able to lie with virtual impunity, cover up safe, effective treatments, and hid their complicity in the creation of that chimera, because there’s no competition. Anyone, like AFLDS, who exposed their lies was censored, deemed discredited, and attacked by their lapdog journalists. Nevertheless, time has proven AFLDS correct and the experts wrong. In orbital spacecraft, the experts all agreed reusable orbital class rockets was physically impossible. There was consensus on that question. Until Elon Musk built one. Meanwhile, the “scientists” at the IPCC were discussing ways to fudge the facts, to make climate change appear worse than it is. All of which proves the need for meaningful competition in scientific endeavors.
So far arbitration has been as corrupt as the courts. In both, political favor rules the day… rather than law, justice, or tradition. Thrasymachus has them in his clutches. Being an optimist, I believe there must be a way to have a system of justice, instead of one that benefits the strong at cost to the weak. There have been times when courts have backed the weak against the strong… but those were to benefit an upcoming faction, not the weak themselves. The weak were tangential beneficiaries. Maybe several open-sourced AIs’ could be judges or overseers of judges? The AI overseers would decide if the rulings of a judge fell within the guardrails of the law and Constitution. AI judges would be as impartial as programmed to be. Which poses the fundamental problem… the elite will not stand for impartial courts.
Monopolies meet competition with contempt. Oligopolies, like our mockingbird media, the expert liars, and our corrupt courts can’t tolerate competition. Because competition exposes them. Despite that hatred, those same elites go to extremes to discredit themselves, forcing people to seek alternatives. The press is the furthest along in growing competition to expose its lies. Scientists and the gatekeepers are driving people to look elsewhere for knowledge. Few today trust our courts as anything other than partisans pretending to be patriots. The reason they’ve got this bad is because there has been no competition. Now they’ve shattered their reputations, organic competition is growing, like elm seedlings from cracks in pavement… the roots of which will break the rest up.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
