About Richard Hanania, Please Don't Shoot The Help! Letter to Young Radicals, Middle Aged Influencers, and Aging Tech Oligarchs
Whose the Help again? And who are they helping?
Don’t shoot the help! Don’t shoot the help!
There’s been a lot of ink spilled online about Richard Hanania’s terrible views. I’ve somehow even managed to get roped in despite not agreeing with those views! But I’m getting a head of myself.
Richard Hanania and I know one another. We’ve had a few lunches together in the way that you do when you’re in LA. Are we friends? I’d let him say one way or another. I like his company and I don’t make apologies for having people in my life whose views I find absurd, ridiculous or downright objectionable.
It is, in fact, my job — to meet all sorts of people. What’s my job? Well that’s none of your business. But doing it well requires freedom of association and I do it very, very well. Apropos of nothing in particular I recommend reading The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal by William Burns.
Hey Silicon Valley: I am your Back Channel
I saw then with some degree of sadness that the Huffington Post’s senior editor for extremism — yes, that’s a real job apparently — Christopher Mathias had decided to target me for being kind to Richard Hanania.
We’ve been on this path before, the Huffington Post and I. I’ve done my part bringing lawsuits against these foreign compromised publications — from Gawker, to Twitter, to Rolling Stone, to Huffington Post, and to BuzzFeed — and I think it’s important to hold these publications to account, particularly when they target the young and the vulnerable. The Southern Poverty Law Center has a radical change in management too. You might have noticed that we got rid of all the Israeli spies there and replaced them with Black CIA but I digress.
So I read the story in the Huffington Post and I can’t really defend Richard Hanania’s views even if I do think the piece was done in the most uncharitable of ways.
This is where we really part ways.
I don’t agree with eugenics. I’m with Alfred Wallace in that I don’t believe a state can ever really do eugenics in a non-corrupt manner. In Wallace’s 1890 article "Human Selection" Wallace wrote, "Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent ..." He said, "The world does not want the eugenicist to set it straight," "Give the people good conditions, improve their environment, and all will tend towards the highest type. Eugenics is simply the meddlesome interference of an arrogant, scientific priestcraft." Sound like Silicon Valley to you? It sure does to me.
I don’t agree with mass incarceration for non-violent crime. I think there are less drastic interventions which are possible like mass genomic sequencing, electronic monitoring and facial recognition technology.
I don’t believe in forced sterilization. Your human dignity doesn’t come from your IQ. It may even be reverse correlated with it.
I’m not an IQ supremacist or increasingly a believer in mass testing. To be honest with you having a high IQ isn’t really worth it. I’m way more prone to depression and to being misunderstood thanks in part to a relatively high IQ. It’s not really worth it. I’ve more or less concluded that a lot of the IQ discourse is just another way of justifying ethnic nepotism on the part of the Chinese and the Israelis. I am embarrassed I believed it. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Bell Curve came on the scene when it did. Don’t question our ethnic nepotism. It’s science! We are born to rule you. No thanks.
I don’t agree with Hanania’s attack on affirmative action or “woke.” When I see ESG I think CIA and when I think CIA I think AOC. Besides with firms increasingly laying workers off does anyone really do this DEI thing anymore?
I don’t think much of Steven Pinker, with his attendant ties to Jeffrey Epstein, is anything but a gatekeeping op. It’s not lost on me that Pinker’s rise as public intellectual is seemingly linked with the rise of Israeli involvement in the genomics industry.
But of the section of his writing I most strongly object to is this one..
We simply need to come down hard on crime, which involves reforms like investing in policing and making use of DNA databases and facial recognition technology. The reason we can’t do this is because of concerns over disparate impact, a cancerous idea that needs to be extirpated from the law and our broader culture more generally.
This is a shockingly autistic understanding of how things really work.
The real reason that crime is coming down under Joe Biden is that there’s been a concerted effort to fund these technologies. President Trump talked about crime solving; President Biden actually did it.
I should know — I am a backer of these databases and of the facial recognition companies which are systematically solving these crimes.
Here’s but one recent report in Forbes:
In early July, U.K. police contacted the DHS Homeland Security Investigations unit about a sexually explicit video involving a man and an infant that the British investigators believed was made in America. In an effort to identify both the adult and the child, HSI ran the pair’s faces through an undisclosed facial recognition tool that scanned a mass database of images scraped from the web and social media. It found a match: Scott Barker, a college sports coordinator in Ashland, Missouri, according to a search warrant reviewed by Forbes.
Investigators reviewed Barker’s Facebook profile and found photos that further corroborated the facial recognition match as well as what appeared to be photos of the child in the video, according to the warrant. Two weeks later, Barker was arrested and charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. An indictment is yet to be filed and Barker has not yet filed a plea as a result, his lawyer, federal defender Troy Stabenow, told Forbes.
The Baker investigation provides a rare insight into how HSI is using facial recognition tools like Clearview AI to quickly chase down new child exploitation leads. But HSI is also using this type of technology in an unprecedented three-week operation to solve years-old crimes that’s led to hundreds of identifications of children and abusers, according to Jim Cole, who spent over two decades on fighting crimes against minors for the HSI and who pushed the initiative before retiring earlier this year. Cole told Forbes the previously unreported task force started operating out of the HSI Cyber Crime Center in mid-July and ended on August 4.
For all of Andreessen’s talk about how it’s TIME TO BUILD he wasn’t there when my team and I were doing the building. In fact we were repeatedly rejected.
I was too controversial, you see. Never you mind that I was controversialized by at least two foreign powers deeply in bed with Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley should be making me a venture partner. Instead I am, if not a pariah, the red headed stepchild — the Voldemort. Why? Because I am real.
Returning to Huffington Post, now I’m not a fan of these sorts of pieces, even and perhaps especially if they are true. Is anyone really hurt by Hanania wasting his life posting on Twitter and Substack? It’s hard to think he’s much of a threat. What does posting his scalp on the wall really prove? What does the insistence that he has wrongthink really achieve?
Nor do I think it’s fair to go back into the time machine and bust youthful dalliances with radical thought especially when the young were encouraged to share everything about themselves online as a way of developing a professional reputation, a social network, and even an artistic sense of taste. Besides, aren’t young people supposed to be radical, extremist, ridiculous? Isn’t that why they aren’t allowed to make major decisions?
I think you can convict anyone based upon their childhood writings. (Go back and read your high school or college writings. Yikes!) For another you never really know what’s really going on in these sort of squabbles. Having had my character assassinated by the foreign-funded press when I was serving my country in an undercover capacity — yes, really — I’m sympathetic to those who are being targeted even if I don’t know what’s really going on. Mercy is a word that doesn’t get nearly enough circulation and it’s important both for the people showing mercy as well as the people who receive it.
We all know the real reason for this piece is to send a shot across the bow to the tech oligarchs who finance Richard Hanania. Let’s have that conversation.
The problem, of course, is that these tech oligarchs — Thiel, Andreessen, and Sacks — don’t oftentimes acknowledge that they, too, are radicalized and that radicalization, with its power to affect which startups get money and which don’t, really matters.
Let’s talk about how the Chinese run both sides of the trade — about how Christopher Mathias’s new book about the far right — what else? — is published by Simon & Shuster, recently purchased by a Chinese-backed private equity firm.
We might also talk about how Hanania’s book is published by Harper Collins, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the nonagenarian Australian-Chinese-Israeli billionaire.
It’s central attack on the civil rights movement is itself a misunderstanding of what the civil rights movement was really about — reducing the means by which foreign powers could foment unrest in America by offering opportunities to black Americans and later other minorities.
What the real critique of DEI is that so few of the studies by the hustlers in the profession stand up to
But then so few of your start ups stand up to real inquiry too.
All of this discourse gets tedious.
Here’s the way it really works:
A smart, outsider kid says some impertinent things on the Internet—or in student newspapers. Maybe he founds a student newspaper or a blog. Sometimes the kid is an immigrant. Sometimes the kid is not. Sometimes he’s gay, usually closeted. Usually they are like a lot of smart kids, lonely and looking for purpose. He looks online because his real world sucks.
That kid is identified and processed by foreign-backed figures and their malefactors and encouraged to say—and to do—terrible things. This is what we mean by radicalization.
This process happened to me. I’ve written about it before but I think it’s worth repeating because it’s increasingly digitized.
If you’re an exceptional person — a ballerina, a cellist, a prodigy, a sociopath, a serial killer, a head case, “autistic” — you will be identified and processed by foreign powers who do not want your best interests.
If they want a weapon, the more antisocial the better. Why you might even get a victim of trauma to run for Senate, governor, or even president. This is oftentimes why so many of the people running for office seem so weird.
Peter Thiel (and future failed U.S senate candidate Blake Masters) write about identifying these antisocial types in their book, Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (2014). They point out that many of those involved in starting PayPal actually had a history of building bombs!
If the child survives his radicalization process he has to be discarded of — preferably by another op vying to replace him. If he breaks from it and turns on it he has to be destroyed by any means necessary or available. There can't be a way out from foreign-backed brainwashing.
As usual fiction deals with this sort of stuff better than whatever passes for a “disinformation reporter.”
Read The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon lately? You really should.
Condon himself once said: "Every book I've ever written has been about abuse of power. I feel very strongly about that. I'd like people to know how deeply their politicians wrong them."
Well the politicians are getting one thing right — higher interest rates are good for Americans coming together. As interest rates go up you’re more and more likely to have a kind of mob warfare, particularly among the influencer set.
The message to Thiel, Sacks, and Musk is that it’s time to get patriotic.
We’ll help you too.
For a model on how to do this sort of thing look no further than President Biden’s masterful courting of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni despite her alleged “far right” views has been a reliable partner in the Ukraine War and in pushing back against China’s Belt and Road initiative.
The best way to deal with alleged extremists is to give them duties. Can they make it work? Biden is the master. “You say you are the elite? Prove it,” says the President, “because all I see are the credentialed. Just another title of nobility that needs to be abolished. In America we prove we are elite by what we do.”
I’ve come to believe that the biggest impediment to a mass sequencing of the population are all the cranks who obsess over IQ and race and deny public support by being too weird.
But they don’t want to build that genetic database because “privacy concerns” which is how the Israeli agents within Founders Fund acted when we brought them Clearview.Ai.
Could it be because a lot of these race and IQ types are antisocial personality types who are identified, processed, and funded by the right?
It’s telling that Hanania lists two technologies necessary to reduce crime — facial recognition and genetics database.
But the “Tech Right” didn’t build that. I did and I am. In fact, I did it with the help of people excluded from Silicon Valley with its weird, creepy obsession on hiring from the very compromised Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Yale. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the U.S. deep state.
Ultimately the biggest indictment of Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk is the smallness of their vision. But each of them is in a way a case of arrested development. Andreessen a child star of a sort put on the cover of major magazines. Musk craved the spotlight too. They never really grew up and they remain fixated on their college days rather than on the needs of the present moment. How else to explain Elon’s obsession with X the everything app? It’s his mid life crisis.
Thiel, by contrast, was driven mad by the academic and chess tournaments of his youth. He built an alternate family first through the Stanford Review then through the PayPal Mafia and now through Founders Fund. It’s only when he started his own family did the Peter Pan lifestyle become clear and ultimately result in the death of his lover. Naturally Thiel — ever the cultist — gave his paramour a home formerly (?) run by the cult NXIVM.
Thiel lacks the courage to run Founders Fund appropriately so he dithers. He allows in obvious frauds and sexual harassers as his partners. Hence endorsing books about DEI rather than actually building the future. Many of these types are already learning that there are other three letter agencies they ought to be worried about. We can protect you from them too—if you’ll listen.
There’s a lot of talk, talk, talk and not a lot of doing with a lot of the public intellectuals around these days. Almost like a lot of influencers are an influence op.
I have to say that both the antifa and alt right and “tech right” are all the same op: using young, ambitious men to tear down rather than build up America and her allies.
But we’re going to recruit the best of them anyway, aren’t we?
You nerds like sci fi right?
Well, come with me if you want to live.
You might have noticed that the Form PF reporting got harder. It’s only going to get harder from here. No more of this weird stuff.
I’ll invite the smarter of you to a dinner party. If you want an invite, hit me up. I’ll teach you how the stuff you didn't learn about how the government really works — the Real Government. They’ll be real spies and real deal players.
It’ll be in Boston or Washington because that’s where America is these days. I get it. You like your Miami drugs and your L.A. burritos but it’s time to build isn’t it? Ain’t none of us going to live forever notwithstanding all the money you laundered to the Russians invested in longevity startups.
You remember my dinner parties, don’t you?
Where I had everyone turn in their phones?
Could it have been because I knew about Pegasus? Almost like I was briefed.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Now excuse me I have two full sequence genomic labs.
Anyone got $50M to build it?
Or are you all just talk?
Oh, am I still controversial? Didn’t you just watch Oppenheimer where a Commie adjacent Jew helped us build the Bomb?
And say, didn’t this guy take us to the Moon?
“But but but he was a Nazi…” they brayed like the sheep they are.
And the adults paid them no mind because we had a country to run, taking us to new heights and new frontiers.
Thiel "allows" sexual harassers like Keith Rabois at Founders Fund because he's a sexual predator, too. Like attracts like. There is a reason why he is buddies with Rabois and Thor Halvorssen