All right, what's up? Welcome, everybody. We're live.

Today, special guest. We haven't had Courtney on in a while, but she is live from the Chicago Comic-Con as one of the biggest supporters of the furry convention that's going on up there.

And she's a huge fan of Frodo and Sam and Legolas and all of the hobbits that are in the circles of

Mencius Molebug. Today we're going to be talking about, that's all being stupid, by the way.

We have an odd topic today, probably something you didn't expect. It's going to be technocracy,

but Courtney has done a lot of in-depth research and information

into subjects that probably not a lot of people are that familiar with.

We're going to be talking about the dark enlightenment.

We're going to be talking about the circles of Peter Thiel, their interest and influence from the Lord of the Rings.

We're going to be talking from the Lord of the Rings.

We're going to be talking about the technocratic takeover.

But before we get into Courtney's recent research and her articles on Substack,

let's do a little bit of a stepping back because the audience over here would grown quite a bit.

And we may have some people, I was on a comedian's podcast the other day,

and I just sort of launched into this. And the first thing he said to me was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is technocracy? So we probably have some people that don't even know what this is. So Courtney,

begin with telling us, first of all, what is technocracy, the origins of it, the overview of it?

So, technocracy started in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression, actually.

This was their solution to create abundance.

And the very famous, you know, Elon Musk, his grandfather, was Josh Haddleman, was actually the head of Technocracy Inc. in Canada from 1936 to 1940, 1941, right before it shut down.

And they, in their own words, like in there, and I think I might have that, if it's not in this most recent article, it's in my last article.

But I actually have the screenshot from Technocrat magazine in 1937.

They say themselves that the definition of technocracy is social engineering.

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