James Dale Davidson

So this Nerd Reich, these artificial intelligence boys, they're really thinking about how can we extract even more value from people and control more of our material reality by controlling the virtual reality that has penetrated our minds we'll get into all that but the nerd right i'm just going to read very quickly from the dust jacket so y'all can understand why i think this book is so important uh the blurb says when silicon valley moves fast and breaks things the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation Gil Duran reveals something far more sinister afoot, a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.

There it is, drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Duran traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.

He introduces its modern apostles, Peter Thiel, the owner of Junior Varsity Vans, Mark Anderson, Balaji Srivansan, and Elon Musk, and shows how the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global moment, I'm sorry, a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, And algorithmically driven propaganda on social media.

That's why we care so much about how Jasmine Guy shows up in the world.

I don't know what to make of the fact that there's a purported Christian revival taking place in Silicon Valley elite circles, but I thought it would be worth kind of touching on some of the foundational texts in this rightward movement.

One of the first ones you describe is a book called The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg.

What is it? How does it think of the world and what does it prescribe? The Sovereign Individual was published in 1997.

And it's been described as an apocalyptic business book.

And to understand their intended destination, the Lincoln Project video points back to a prophetic text published in 1997.

Titled The Sovereign Individual, written by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.

This book is treated as a foundational blueprint within this movement, isn't it?

Very much so.