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The Elephant in the Room

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You know the illustration of a group of blind men describing an elephant?

With one of them holding the leg and describing it as the trunk of a tree, another the tail and thinking it is a rope, etc.?

It is a good analogy for the larger conspiracy nobody can explain.

We all can agree that there’s something wrong with the world, and yet we can never agree on exactly what it is. Those of the Republican rank and file, despite being an easy sell on the biggest of wastes called the Pentagon, have generally seen government as the real problem—along with rules that apply to them and the people who don’t speak English.  And those Democrats—of course. Democrats, on the other hand, will blame those big corporations and billionaires for their woes, the “uneducated,” and unborn babies—which all stand in the way of a life of ease.  And they blame Republicans.  I would say that both are right to a degree. It is actually that natural collusion of the political and economic that they see a different side of—namely, that government has always sent us to die overseas on behalf of bankers and big business. Monetary wealth is transferable—so much more transferable than some amorphous national ideals—and politicians are a class that can be easily bought.

Maybe we all are? 

I am reminded of a local fight against a new data center where the leader of the protest went silent right around the time the buyout cash was being offered.

We will stand on principle—until we don’t.

Money or, rather, the love of it, with the power it represents, is the root of all kinds of evil.

The above would describe half of the conspiracy.

The other half of it is those who never had to be bought to betray us all. From growing up in a conservative Mennonite community—and having been a religious member for most of my life—there’s an attitude that comes with the notion of “not being ‘of the world’” which is probably not what Jesus ever intended. I am talking about a sneering at or contempt for the civil authority. We didn’t say it—even preached the opposite—and yet there is the very strong undercurrent of “what business does some heathen have in telling me how to live my life?” I’m fairly certain—given the admonition of Romans 13—that separation is more about being apart from vices of the world rather than in judgment of those who are given the power of the sword or the civil authorities. This defiance against power is a good and bad thing. It can be good when we are standing on a moral high ground and for truth—not when it is a special exemption from accountability to our neighbors.

So where am I going with all this?

Who doesn’t need to betray us because they never were us?

There’s another group of individuals that’s a lot like Mennonites or Amish, and not fully invested in the same civilizational project or greater good.  Where, in theory, Christian separatists are never supposed to screw you over in business and must value all human life, this is not a disposition that is shared universally and by every community of faith or culture.

There are some who believe that people outside of the “tribe” are little more than a resource to exploit. And their religious traditions allows or even encourages this perspective.  If you look at the Biblical Old Testament, and take note of the bloodbath it was before Christ, maybe you would also be shouting, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” Jesus was the watershed moment of Jewish tradition—he claimed to be the complete fulfillment of everything promised to them since the time of Abraham. Some embraced his message and became known as Christians and many others rejected his message, choosing their own “chosenness” over a life of repentance, humility, and self-sacrificial love—that “way of the cross” which was embodied by Jesus as an example for all.

There are those who are “Biblical” yet completely incompatible with a Christian worldview.  And a few of their number have worked tirelessly to, this time around, finally defeat Rome. Modern Judaism and, in particular, the Zionist ideology within this sect of those who rejected Christ, is not just aloof like contemporary Anabaptists. No, it has an ax to grind with Western civilization as a whole and the disgusting “blasphemy” of the divine claims of one of their own.

In Talmudic tradition Jesus basically got what he deserved, currently boils in a pot of excrement, and is definitely not an example to follow. The Noahide prescription for saying “Jesus is Lord” is decapitation. This is why adherent Talmudists have zero interest in protecting those Christian communities that have been in the Holy Lands for centuries. They also take personally being defeated by the European pagans two centuries ago.  Jesus was put to death on behalf of the Sanhedrin or Jewish High Council who claimed this was necessary to defend their nation.  Where the mainline of Islam still considers Christians and Jews to simply be “people of the book,” this sentiment of tolerance is not part of Talmudic Judaism.

Furthermore, Christianity, if applied, pushes back against this tribal, primitive, “if you kill one of ours we kill ten of yours” mentality—Old Testament religion does not.

Before I go any further it is important to say that this isn’t a diagnosis of a whole ethnic or identity group. I firmly believe that most Jews—just like most Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists—are good people and should be judged as individuals. What I’m addressing is ideology, not individuals. I see my Jewish elementary school teacher in a far different light from a Benjamin Netanyahu—in the same way I can distinguish between Amish and Lutherans. 

So as a starting point I won’t assume anything—in individuals is the behavioral expression that matters to me.

But that said, there is a kind of tribal dynamic or cultural influence that is at work and with this a few common points of failure. Being taught a moral and ethical system is similar to sharing genetics.  For example, Ashkenazi Jews (much like Amish and Mennonites)—because they are so isolated from the greater gene pool—present a very unique opportunity for studying genetic disorders.

The Supremacist Disease

Sickle cell anemia is an issue for only some Africans—and it isn’t racist or an accusation against all to acknowledge this.

Likewise, it isn’t “anti-Semitic” to call out Zionism and to understand that the “goyim” slur (as it was used in the Jeffrey Epstein emails) reflects the toxic stench of ethno-supremacism—which is incompatible with an “all men are created equal” ethic. If anti-goyism is the trait, then Zionism is the ultimate disease. And this is an ailment that stems from a toxic brew of a theological error mixed with the pre-existing human condition. The end product is a kind of psychopathy and lack of self-awareness unequaled on the planet. Unlike Christianity that it is better to serve than to be served—there are rabbis who say this:

In Israel, death has no dominion over them… With gentiles, it will be like any person—they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money.“This is his servant… That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”“Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat… That is why gentiles were created.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

Translation: If you’re not Jewish then you’re no different from cattle or a draft animal. That’s what he was teaching Israelis. Little wonder why Israeli tourists have gained a reputation for being entitled jerks.  It explains why IDF soldiers laugh about the Palestinian children they’ve killed.

Two ethno-supremacists enjoy a moment together.

They are basically the Jewish version of Nazis or the KKK and totally anti-Christ and evil. The best you can be to Jewish supremacists is basically their prized horse. Work is for us, leisure for them, and if you don’t perform to the standard?

Well, what does a farmer do if his cow doesn’t produce?

This idea that an honest day’s work is below the Jew seems reflected in the messages that Epstein and Jewish friends exchanged:

This is the way the Jew make money.. and made a fortune in the past ten years„ selling short the shipping futures‚ let the goyim deal in the real world.

This right here hits on something of my own values. Remember the one time Jesus was especially animated? Him driving out those money changers from the temple courtyard, overturning their tables in a righteous fury—because they were taking advantage of the poor hard-working people. There are those ways of getting rich without ever adding any value. It might not legally be theft, but it does prey on those who earn every dime they got, and is unethical from the perspective of the New Testament writers. Usury, filthy lucre, charging interest and shameful, dishonest, or dishonorable financial gain. I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the blue-collar worker and probably as a part of my own cultural upbringing—a culture built off the religion of Christ—the cornerstone that was rejected by those who wanted only to be served.

And then there’s the elitism represented by the publicist Peggy Siegal who asked Jeffrey Epstein if an event at his New York mansion would be a “100% JEW NIGHT,” and to which the pedophile blackmailer answered: “No, goyim in abundance – jpmorgan execs brilliant WASPs.”

To deal with her comment about non-Jews he entices her with: They’re smart and rich.

Favoritism is another one of those things that was condemned by Jewish leaders of the early Christian church:

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2:3-5

Judgment based on appearance is natural, as is the preference for those who might be able to give us something; this is favoritism and corrupts our institutions. The direction of the West has been equality—not in some absolute way—as far as individual rights or similar access to economic opportunities. But those of the Epstein-class have no qualms about elitism; they don’t subscribe to Christian thought—those of the Jewish contingent of this Zionist club are primed for this: It is their chosenness, the divine destiny granted to them by their superior genetics, a narcissistic self-love, and all represents the core of a disease that has overtaken our top tier.

Corruption of Wealthy Widows

After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.

(Luke 8:1-3 NIV)

Jesus was financially supported by women.  He preached the good news on their dime.  And the anti-Christ, seeking a false Messiah, is supported in a similar way.

To understand why Trump has done Israel’s bidding look no further than the donation of $250,000,000 by Miriam Adelson. My uncle, from Canada, who leans left, warned me of how Trump was owned by billionaires. It is the part he left out, however, that mattered most. Of course big money buys influence—both parties have their wealthy patrons backing them. But the details matter. This woman who bankrolled Trump is the Israel-first widow of Sheldon Adelson—a man who made his billions by peddling vice.

Gambling is addictive and the Adelsons the type who cash in on human weakness. The idea of gaining enormous wealth entices—this is an exploitable bug in our system. The house always wins in this stacked game. When asked about her loyalties it was fairly clear that it wasn’t with the country that created her fortune—it was with an ethno-supremacist colony. So this woman, who became wealthy creating an addiction to a losing proposition, bought the service of Trump using the money of the exploited. This, simply put, is just corruption upon corruption upon corruption—money taken from working poor Americans to use to influence politicians to send their children to die for the Zionist regime. An ill-gotten fortune used to shape a foreign policy that demands that U.S. treasure be spent bombing school girls in the country of Iran—all because Iran’s principled government stands in the way of their ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

We’re not just being deceived; we’re being totally robbed blind by people who have no investment in the American project besides a tax farm and a population to exploit. If you see who sits atop the entertainment or vice system a clear pattern emerges. From pro sports to Hollywood, social media and the adult entertainment industry, there’s a totally disproportionate representation. If you look at Pornhub, for example, it just so happens to be owned by Ethical Capital Partners and Solomon Friedman—an ordained Orthodox Jewish rabbi. OnlyFans was owned (until his death) by Leonid Radvinsky, a Ukrainian-born American who donated millions to the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC. And this list goes on and on. It’s a matter of moral alignment, not religious or ethnic identities. There was a time when vices stayed in Las Vegas and the seedy side of town—now they have put it in our pockets where resistance is about as likely as ceasing to doomscroll.

All of this, like the Federal Reserve system, is a legal exploitation. But it goes against the public good. An ethical businessman or politician is like a good parent or teacher—in that they would never put something bad or financially ruinous and morally corrosive right in front of our most vulnerable people. Oh, I know, if they didn’t do it someone else would, right?

There’s no excuse for this.

But being an intermediary who does the things that good people of society would not do doesn’t make you a victim when the connection is pointed out. Bluntly, there are some not invested in our good because they’re truly not one of us and only see us in terms of opportunities for exploitation. Our politicians, and most especially Trump, are owned by a group of wealthy elites invested in us the same way Israel is in Palestinians—in that we are only useful alive to them so long as they are served by us.

For capitalism to work you need the people with capital to be loyal to the country and invest in the betterment of their neighbors. Take a dive into a rabbit hole and see how the Sassoon family got filthy rich by keeping the Chinese supplied with highly addictive opium. They basically ruined a nation for their own profit and used the power of the British military to humiliate the Chinese trying to stop the flow of the drug. Say what you will about China, but they’ve done very well since driving the money changers out. They have made sure the commerce in China serves the people of China and not only this very small group of foreigners and colonial elites.

The Elephant in the Room

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.” (George Carlin)

Since the 1970s the top 1% has gone from holding 22% of the nation’s wealth to 31.7% and that is a trend that has only accelerated since the Covid shutdowns of 2020.  Elites said “we’re all in this together” in the height of the pandemic.  But Amazon was having record profits while Mom-and-Pop were not allowed to be open.  As Gavin Newsom and a long list of other politicians had continued to party in private, events like weddings and school graduations were canceled for us.  It is abundantly clear and no matter who they say that they represent; They’re working for themselves, not working for us.

Money and power, concentrated into a few hands, particularly the hands of those with a foreign agenda that does not consider the welfare of the native population, acts like a conspiracy because it practically is one. No, it is not a Jewish conspiracy, it isn’t simply corporate greed or corrupt politicians, and certainly didn’t start with Trump; this is just how corrupt birds of a feather always flock together. Grifters, conmen, an ethnic group taught from little on up that they’re superior and entitled, those who will short an entire economy and are willing to destroy the life work of others for gain, they often do team up. It’s love of money, wealth without work, and people who are not truly invested in the good of the nation they’re in, that’s the big elephant in room.

Many can see parts of the creature—a trunk, the ears, the tail—they blame billionaires, or the migrants, the symptoms, but fail to ever comprehend the marriage of political power and banking, vice and exploitation industry—people all invested in themselves or some foreign interest rather than the whole. This describes the Zionist “AIPAC” lobby—as well as billionaires, like Sam Altman (OpenAI) or Peter Thiel (PayPal and Palantir), who have built their tremendous wealth on our backs and then would bug out and flee to another country rather than make a home stand.  It is a class of those who see themselves as a god to be served rather than as a servant of humanity.  

Gay tech billionaires, Zionist club members, aren’t actually interested in the future of the American middle-class?

Who could’ve known!

That thrice married man, paying high dollar prostitutes, wasn’t actually the champion of family values?  

Must be my TDS speaking, right?

Trump might be part of this elephant’s rear end, but the establishment alternative is not another creature.  It’s about orientation.  It’s about the actual values lived.  Not the ones they state on camera, the ones they live out when not in character.  Erosion of Christian values, despite the lip service paid to them, has led to a much more self-centered, tribal and exploitative present.  Vice industry and debt have bound us.  We need to get back to the universal perspective rather than the tribal.  We must address the delusion of the ‘chosen’ and their systematic violence as a threat to stability and peace.  We must side with those who accepted Christ rather than those who rejected and hate him.

Oh, and don’t forget, Judas didn’t spit on Christ when he betrayed him.  No, he kissed him.  The thirty pieces of silver mattered to him more than loyalty to those who entrusted him with carrying their common purse.  There are many who call themselves Christians today, who may faithfully attend church every Sunday, but are on the side of evil and may be told “depart from me, I never knew you” for their unholy alliances.

“For Hell’s Sake”—Slip of the Tongue or Prophecy?

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With their three votes the Box Elder County Commission, in Utah, defied the protests to give Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary what he wanted: A transfer of jurisdiction to this state entity called Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) so he could bypass local zoning laws and get a massive tax break to build a 40,000-acre, 100 billion dollar, AI data center. They voted in private because the crowd had grown too raucous to continue their proceedings.

However, the truly eyebrow raising moment which jumped out, and the title of this blog, is when a commissioner Boyd Bingham—in a response to the upset locals—exclaimed, “Oh, for hell’s sake, grow up!”

Interesting choice of words, right?

I’ve heard ‘for goodness sake” and even “for heaven’s sake” as idioms. But Bingham did not invoke the spiritual entity linked to good or God. By slip of the tongue or a bad habit, he appealed to the domain of darkness and human torment and ultimate destruction. It is reason by itself to take pause.

But why are taxpayers supposed to give a billionaire and his investors a tax break, for a technology that will replace jobs? O’Leary sells as necessary for our national defense against China and yet shouldn’t we at least think of the possibility that this weapon he is forming can be turned on us? If we’re to subsidize the development costs and waive the normal local reviews, shouldn’t we have equal say in how AI infrastructure is utilized and share the profits?

Oh, Shut Up, Dig Your Own Grave!

Forcing someone to dig their own grave is one of the cruelest acts imaginable. Many will comply with this order out of desire for just one more moment of life. And that is the predicament those who build the data center infrastructure face. Those poised to benefit the most, like O’Leary, will often tout the job creation while neglecting to mention the jobs are mostly temporarily and that the AI they facilitate will soon leave many more people unemployed.

Wealth gap is already a growing concern as big corporations sent jobs overseas only to pocket the savings. The rich and powerful have always needed to have that modicum of respect for those who enabled them. An employee had to be compensated fairly or they might leave for a better opportunity. It is a slight balance to a game stacked in the favor of those who control the resources. A billionaire, other than that symbolic turn of a shovel to claim credit, isn’t out digging the foundation themselves. But what happens when they no longer need us?

In the past century technological advances have replaced many jobs. While this was a disruptive change, it increased our standard of living and allowed us to move beyond our subsistence farming roots. Industrialization, combined with labor protections, boosted production and resulted in the burgeoning middle class. This—the “American Dream”—has come under increasing pressure from factors such as outsourcing, rising costs, and wage stagnation. But the AI revolution, unlike prior inventions that freed men up to do other productive things, is a precipice for human labor.

We face a new technology that can replace all jobs. Machines or automation in the industrial revolution typically eliminated undesirable jobs or freed people to do more fulfilling tasks. White collar jobs were always beyond reach. But that has changed.  Already, even without AI, there’s the trend of Mom-and-Pop being swallowed up by massive corporations which answer to only wealthy stockholders—not employees—will AI reverse consolidation or accelerate the trend?

I believe the answer is obvious.

Unless there are serious structural changes to the economy, capital will end up in fewer and fewer hands, as wages crater and dual purpose AI infrastructure is used to police away all dissent. If they don’t declare most of us to be “useless eaters” or call us “eco terrorists” for exhaling carbon, they’ll keep us virtually fenced in and unable to resist their control regime. And that’s assuming we will be dealing with human masters in any form. If Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is to eventually emerge we might all, rich or poor, end up being a memory in the cloud. If humans are largely indifferent to the suffering of their own kind, what need will an intelligence far superior to our own do do with us once power is concentrated?

This all may come off as alarmist. But it is one of those things even creators of AI themselves are warning against. Even without AGI, we face an unprecedented concentration of power into the hands of a few elites who already escape justice for their crimes. And this is not to mention the environmental impacts or other economic costs of data centers. In that AI data centers consume huge amounts of water—often left contaminated—and are driving up the price of electricity. The same government that had wanted more political power to fight climate change suddenly has no issues with these polluting power hogs that can be used to watch us 24-7.

So, before we dig our own graves or invite an AI hell on earth, we should consider the trajectory we are on, what we know about humans when they finally do have power to erase those who are a problem, and make a few adjustments while we still can?

Bounds of Corporate Power and Property Rights

American individualism is both a strength and weakness. Generally I believe people should be free to do what they want or at least so long as they aren’t harming other people. And taking personal responsibility is also a reasonable expectation for adults. But morality goes beyond rights for citizens or land owners only, it includes provision for the needs of the community and nation (the people) as well. Eminent domain exists as a check to private rights superceding public good. We understand, for example, that our commerce needs connection and therefore occasionally uses the power of the state to open corridors of road or rail.

Corporations shouldn’t have human rights. They are entities entirely created by law and must remain subject to public interest. This is exponentially more important in this age of data centers and AI. The current level of collusion between billionaire capital and the political elites is dangerous. Government is using corporations to circumvent privacy law and corporations using government to enrich themselves. The relationship of the people with their official representatives is secondary to the lobbyists who fund their campaigns for kickbacks. This is why the wealth gap continues to grow, money and power work hand in hand, the economy is a rigged game. Elites don’t need to consider the common man.

This is why there were limits that were put in place, even in Biblical law, compelling the wealthy to leave the corners of fields as a provision for the poor:

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest… You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner.

Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV

When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV

The above is as important as “thou shall not steal” and the protection of property rights. There have always been people who, by no fault of their own, end up without means to provide for themselves. And those who do have the capital or the means of production are compelled to leave a little for them. It is okay to do well. But those given much are required to supply the needs of others from their excess so that equality is the outcome—explicitly stated in 2 Corinthians 8:13-15—and yet neglected in ‘Christian’ America where the attitude is that effort explains all difference. Yes, sloth is a sin, and yet it is the sin of shirking our own responsibility to care for others as we ought to care.

All of this to say that these deficiencies and gaps in our current cultural values will only be further exacerbated by the AI economy we are building. Without a moral check to the power or mandated provision for those who fall through the cracks this technology that could create enormous benefits will be hell on Earth. We need to consider the huge structural inequalities that already exist and take enormous effort to overcome. We love the Ben Carson stories—a person who had chosen right and was rewarded for it. But what do we do when robots do surgery far better than any human hands?

This isn’t just a difference in effort.

Contrary to popular opinion, an economic system is not sacrosanct—whether our current version of Capitalism or something called Socialism—the systems must adapt with economic conditions. In the very near future there will probably be many people unable to find gainful employment. When AI outcompetes you for every job, when all of the means of production are finally consolidated into even fewer hands, what alternative mechanisms exist to ensure you are able to continue and feed yourself or your family?

Do you trust that AI billionaires will leave the corners of their fields as your provision without being compelled to care?

We’re already managed

Even if AI could be made to serve us those who own the tool will not. Competition was good for human advancement, but we have neglected cooperation, and have created an economic system that rewards efficiency at the cost of compassion. The ruthless have found their way to the top and, enhanced by AI, may give your neighborhood the Gaza treatment—or at least if you resist their rule over you like their cattle. We have a window now to decide how this plays out, we can wait—do too little too late when the systems of control are locked in.

Meet the Billionaires Behind AI

OpenAI began with a noble-sounding mission: to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of all humanity as a nonprofit. Yet under Sam Altman, who rose to a position of CEO then strong-armed the non-profit board (which had tried to fire him) to take control, OpenAI betrayed their founding vision for profit. The once open-source promised collaboration became closed, proprietary tech being funneled through massive silicon valley partnerships and other for-profit structures. The people who once championed “open” AI shifted to guarding their models jealously as the potential for money and power became real. This betrayal reveals the pattern: our lofty ideals give way to our greed when the stakes rise.

Adding to the unease about Altman is the unfortunate case of Suchir Balaji, a OpenAI researcher who became a whistleblower and had publicly accusing the company of copyright violations in training its models. He was found dead from a gunshot wound just a month later, his death was officially ruled a suicide. Yet the circumstances have left many unconvinced—the timing (just one month after his public whistleblowing), the lack of any clear motive for suicide, blood spatter patterns that private investigators claim are inconsistent with suicide, and a half-eaten takeout meal left at the table have all raised questions about the official ruling. Given the high stakes of challenging a powerful company like OpenAI, this has raised serious questions about the police investigation.

Next up, Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of Palantir Technologies—the same who discovered, mentored, employed, funded, and helped launch vice-president JD Vance’s political career—has repeatedly lectured on apocalyptic themes and the Antichrist, disturbingly framing technology, politics, and global control through the biblical end-times imagery.  And, through Palantir, he has built some of the world’s most powerful mass surveillance and data-driven targeting tools—systems now deeply embedded in government and military operations. Palantir’s platforms have been scaled up by the Israeli military for operations in Gaza, enabling their AI-assisted targeting, pattern analysis, and “kill lists” that integrate vast amounts of surveillance data with minimal human oversight. This is being brought to the U.S. through ICE and in the name of immigration enforcement.

When human oversight is neglected

Thiel’s commentary, literal or metaphorical, a fusion of theological speculation and the unchecked technological power is currently being released on captive populations, does raise disturbing questions about the kind of deceptive authority which is warned about in end-times prophecy. The real concern lies in the centralized surveillance apparatus these elites are rapidly constructing—one built on humanity’s collective data taken from us without our consent (let alone our compensation) and has already been turned against vulnerable populations that are  deemed inconvenient.  When do we get a vote on how our own collectively produced information is used?  Who is watching the watchmen?

AI does not create from nothing. It devours vast quantities of human source material—our writings, art, ideas, conversations, and collective human knowledge scraped from the internet. This technology is built on the fruits of humanity’s shared intellectual labor and creativity. It should therefore serve the good of all rather than becoming a tool to enrich and empower a tiny few. We face a fundamental choice: We deliberately steer AI toward a path of abundance, equity, and human flourishing—a digital “heaven” where technology lifts every person. Or will allow it to accelerate hell on earth, where power concentrates further, dissent is monitored and crushed, jobs evaporate without safety nets, and the masses of our species soon become “useless eaters” in the eyes of the forever unaccountable overlords?

We can’t hope people in power will do what is right. Even (or especially) at a local level. It is easy to buy off a few county officials—there are many willing sell out humanity for the 30 pieces of silver. Or, if not traitors outright, those whom we elect as representatives to play Pilate’s game of pass the buck. But the corrupted by their personal gain or simply for political expediency sake won’t be able to wash their hands of the eventual consequences. The trajectory is clear without intervention. Data centers subsidized by taxpayers will enable wealthy political elites to consolidate their control. Corporate-government collusion will deepen surveillance. And without moral boundaries, structural reforms, or special provisions for the common good—which would echo biblical calls to leave gleanings for the poor—this revolution will absolutely exacerbate every existing inequality.

We still have a window to demand better. AI infrastructure must include public oversight, profit-sharing mechanisms, and safeguards that prioritize people over pure capital gain. Property rights and corporate power cannot be absolute when the technology reshapes society itself. AI infrastructure is built upon our collective human efforts and, therefore, should be for the benefit of all people. The alternative to digging own graves while the elite build their fortresses is to assert some moral authority and write the laws to ensure that this technological revolution builds the future of humanity for goodness sake.

The Choice Is Ours: Heaven Or Hell

Power is a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies, and leaves him at last a mere active mass of hardness and self-affection.

Henry Adams

O’Leary claims that we need his massive AI data center to compete with China. With it he admits this is a weapon, a tool to use for dominance or control, and that all begs the question: When will the billionaires and their obedient politicians turn this power against us?

We can’t trust our elected government to protect us when their own allegiance goes to the highest bidder. Even if AI is not the end of all humanity or life as we know it, we are paying the cost in terms of tax breaks, reckless use of limited water resources and energy price hikes—which is not mention jobs currently disappearing and will leave many without a source of income.

This is why humanity must unite. We must put aside past divisions, rethink the policies crafted for a different century, and treat this as a potential extinction event. AI could be the best thing that ever happened to us—as a species—if correctly managed or morally applied. This could be a source of creative answers and abundance for all. Sadly when people get unchecked power they will tend forget compassion. When we can’t identify with our fellow man—because we have the means to escape consequences—we become indifferent and cruel towards them. The power of AI cannot be left in the hands of a few people currently at the top. There needs to be an application of this:

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

2 Corinthians 8:13-15 NIV

We need new checks and balances built for the current time and simply to ensure our survival. AI is built on human information, uses volumes of knowledge gathered over eons, infrastructure built by many hands—it must be made to serve us all or dealt with as the existential threat to humanity it represents.

There was a time—and not long ago—when horses outnumbered humans. In a decade the automobile replaced them. And we face a very similar predicament as machines can replace many tasks that make us useful to elites.

So what will be our fate when we go from being an asset to liability in the eyes of elites?

Will there be a pasture built or a glue factory?

For heaven’s sake—or for hell’s—we must act wisely before the slip of tongue of that commissioner become prophecy.