A powerful class of tech billionaires believes democracy is an obstacle — not a value.
From crypto empires and AI dominance to “network states” and effective altruism, a growing broligarchy envisions a future ruled by elites, insulated from accountability and untethered from democratic norms.
David Z. Morris — longtime technology and finance journalist and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia — joins the show to expose how Epstein’s elite network, Silicon Valley power players, and crypto utopians are reshaping politics in ways that threaten democratic institutions worldwide.
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Appreciate that link. Thanks for that as a starting point.
I don’t consider this an easy thing to research; the word gamergate itself becomes a verb/ adjective in the dialectic around the conversation very quickly. I’ve gone so far as to pull the entirety of the reddit archive from 2005-2022, which includes subs like r/kotakuinaction, r/antigamergate. There is a whole language and vocabulary these communities glommed on to, which for an outsider, is practically incomprehensible. I mean even this video you’ve posted (which I’m listening to as I respond) is already drifting into the phenomenology of logic and epistemology. Six minutes and they haven’t even mentioned gamergate, and as soon as they do, there is this assumption I know what actually happened.
I would hardly call the topic of researching gamergate as easy. For example, very soon in the conversation we come into terms like “pro-gamergate” and “anti-gamergate”…
I mean…