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Happy Birthday, Dear Blog
Last month was the blog's tenth birthday! The blog has almost reached 4 million unique hits. I am deeply grateful to all readers who stop by and to fellow content creators in the alt media.
The Best Posts page will soon be updated,
here. The five-year retrospective,
Perspectives and Milestones, summarized my rationale for blogging about the impact of technology on the 20th century world, as a way of understanding the history of the 21st century.
Conclusion of a Decade
Over the past decade, I observed two main trends:
first, the erosion of conventional authority in the face of democratized access to information; and second, the attempt by the establishment to exploit and manipulate information to regain control of an increasingly red-pilled public.
I am now writing a book based on the blog,
Inside the Potemkin Village (more below).
Given current circumstances, I am moving daily posts and community discussions to closed forums.
I am a Canadian blogger. In April 2020,
there was a discussion in Ottawa about criminalizing anyone who discussed conspiracy theories or peddled disinformation online about COVID19. I analyze disinformation and conspiracy theories as examples of techno-culture. This distinction would be missed by authorities.
I am also writing on the
Blogger platform, which is run by
Google, notorious for its deplatforming of the alt media on
Youtube. I expect social media censorship to increase, along with mayhem in the streets.
A man had an open container of Alcohol. NYPD slammed him on his head unconscious. (24 May 2020). Video Source: Youtube.
For these reasons, research links and updates about my work will be found for free on
Discord. Please join the conversation. I will write fewer blog posts, and the ones I do write will be behind a small
Patreon subscriber paywall ($1 per month). I will still occasionally write non-crisis posts here and at my other blogs.
This isn't just about me. The current circumstances are so serious and volatile that I am asking for support to develop a private online community, based on this blog.
Become a Patron!
The TLDR:
- A private free text chat on Discord (https://discord.com/ invitation code Zy9XVad) for all blog readers, with daily information and updates on my book-writing. Join the discussion.
- A free newsletter - sign up at the bottom of my Website. The newsletter will give regular updates for those who access free material and for Patreon supporters, who will be added automatically.
- Private blog posts on the pandemic and current crises for start-tier Patreon supporters (https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass).
- A private forum (https://hottc.forumotion.com) to build a community for medium-tier Patreon supporters. Register at the forum and your account will be activated when your Patreon support is confirmed. Discussions will cover the pandemic; economic collapse; coming tech innovations; personal resilience and survival; censorship; laws and civil rights; evolving politics; the US election; digital education; cryptos; hyperinflation; food insecurity; and other topics.
- Private scheduled virtual video and audio meetings to consider community strategies in times of change (for upper-tier Patreon supporters).
- Insider, behind-the-scenes information in virtual meetings (for top-tier Patreon supporters).
If you want to buy cryptos on exchanges as a hedge against hyperinflation, please buy through the links below, which will also support me, my writing projects, and the development of a community for mutual support during tough times. Some links also provide you with a bonus at sign-up.
In particular,
Crypto.com offers a
Visa card in the UK, USA, Singapore,
Canada, and Europe, which will draw from your
cryptos stored in your online wallet. The cryptocurrencies you hold will be converted into fiat money at the moment when you make purchases in stores.
Crypto.com is also a
crypto exchange and an
online wallet (
where I do not recommend you keep anything for long); and it has other services in the works. Their whitepaper is
here. This financial tool might be useful next year, when a head of lettuce might cost USD $400 or more.
ADDENDUM (1 July 2020): Unfortunately, the German fintech behind the crypto.com wallet,
Wirecard, has collapsed in the biggest accounting fraud
scandal in post-war history. Use of crypto.com's Visa is not recommended and/or prohibited and restricted until crypto.com can find a different wallet provider.
- My invitation link to Crypto.com is here: (referral code: zju6byz4vq). NB: Please refer to the addendum above.
- Support my work when you buy cryptos at Bitbuy, my referral link is here (referral ID: 9NNHWIHWE).
- My Swissborg referral link is here.
- Wealthsimple's crypto waitlist is here.
- My Brave encrypted browser referral link is here.
- My invitation to Binance is here (referral IDs: 41817819 or IBYYBGRH).
- My referral to Coinbase is here.
- Please donate to keep this blog and related platforms running.
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Real-Time, Red-Pilled History
Why support the writing of
Inside the Potemkin Village?
This blog was conceived as an original and unique experiment in writing what I call 'real-time history.' The idea was that information was moving so quickly, and in such volumes, and in so many new formats, that it was not possible to write a professional academic history of the new Millennium by waiting the traditional 30+ years before engaging the historical view. It had to be done day-by-day.
Technologically-driven communication poses other serious problems for historical writing. There are new forms of global community and identification; new media; malleable and anonymous sources; disappearing information; whistle-blowing; challenges to traditional information authorities; big data; and censorship.
The most popular post here is my 2017 summary of new Millennial politics:
Red Pill, Blue Pill, Green Pill, Black Pill. One of the readers
remarked:
"This was a truly amazing and inspired blog post. I do hope you are able to publish a book that further delves into these cyber resistance and cultural movements. I'd buy it today. The closest I've seen to someone actually publishing a book that attempts to cover 4chans massive cultural influence is '
hacker hoaxer whistleblower spy', but you are far more versed in the minutiae of it all."
To the Red Pills: do you want your history written by someone who understands what you went through and followed it every day?
Without an alternative history, your experiences from the first quarter of the 21st century will be judged through the lens and politics of mainstream academic theory. Not only will this be inaccurate, it will reflect the Orwellian aims of the current establishment, which
silences alternative voices, suppresses independent implementations of technology, and absorbs the best of tech start-ups and cyber-movements, while removing their independent legacies from the record.
Without a crowd-funded, real-time, red-pilled history, the story of life on the early Internet will be written by scholars funded by the likes of Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.
You know how it will read.
Going forward, alternative voices won't just be erased from the Internet. They will be erased from history. He who writes history provides the future world view.
This is why I am writing my first collection of essays on this early Millennial period in
Inside the Potemkin Village. In order to finish the book and other writing projects, while also developing that knowledge into community strategies to survive at this challenging time, I am asking for your support.
NOTE: I may change platforms for chat, forums, and virtual meetings; check below for any updates or write to me (here) for new invite links.
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