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World Economic Forum to accelerate push for global 'Metaverse' surveillance network at Davos 2023 Davos turns to the Metaverse as the next frontier for technocratic tyranny. Jordan Schachtel During its 2023 Davos conference, the World Economic Forum will host a press conference on its “Building The Metaverse Initiative,” and release key “studies” and details about its efforts to further facilitate what appears to amount to a global surveillance network, according to documents reviewed by The Dossier. The Metaverse, a buzzworthy bumper sticker slogan that refers to a whole host of ideas in the technology space, has potential current and future applications both for private and governmental entities. It will be featured as one of the core staples of the 2023 Davos conference.  What is the Metaverse, exactly? The term Metaverse was invented by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, in which citizens used digital avatars as a means to escape their dystopian rea...

War and the Hyperreal Questioning the dominant narrative does not mean you are a Putin stooge. Rhyd Wildermuth First of all, I want to direct your attention to something really worth your time. It will also help provide a bit of metaphysical context for what I have to say after it. The always-brilliant Angie of Angie Speaks has created a new video that will undoubtedly interest you. It’s on the Metaverse and Baudrillard’s Hyperreal, and it points to something I’ve been working on understanding for quite some time. When a culture neglects to give nature its due through the embrace of communal festival place-and-time, it becomes more vulnerable to the darker influences of the hyperreal, and this trend can cause devastation not only to social and political life but also to the mass psychology of a population. Angie, in case you are not familiar with her, is a black Marxist, part of that most hated class of people for the Woke. Of course you’d think that such a person (especially a black w...