Iain Davis joins Whitney Webb to discuss his forthcoming book, The Technocratic Dark State, which explores how the so-called “counter-elites” and tech billionaires behind much of the second Trump administration’s policies envisage a world remarkably similar to, and perhaps even worse than, that of the globalist oligarchs long reviled by Trump’s electoral base.

Links Discussed:
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto – Marc Andreessen
- 2 part series from Iain Davis on the Networked State – City-States Without Limits – Part 1
- City-States Without Limits – Part 2
- The Age of AI : and our human future | Kissinger, Schmidt: Internet Archive
- Joe Rogan: Jesus Could Return as AI – YouTube
- Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures—about the Antichrist | Fortune
- The Straussian Moment – Peter Thiel
- Solari video series “Digital Money and Digital Control” is also available to Unlimited Hangout members – https://unlimitedhangout.com/join
- Acts 17 – The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to Build ‘Heaven on Earth’ | WIRED
- “Sustainably” Surveilling and Tokenizing Nature: The Case of O.N.E. Amazon | Unlimited Hangout
Follow Iain: Pre-Order The Technocratic Dark State : Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship, IainDavis.com, Iain Davis, Author at Unlimited Hangout, Substack, and Iain Davis @_InThisTogether | X.com.
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Chapters:
- 00:04:10 – The Technocratic Dark State and the COVID Era Backlash
- 00:10:20 – UN and WEF Goals for Smart Cities and Global Governance
- 00:37:33 – The Network State and Public Private Partnership
- 00:47:46 – Larry Ellison and Oracle
- 00:59:34 – AI, Media, Religion
- 01:20:48 – Financial Aspects of the Technocratic Dark State
- 01:34:30 – Solutions