Genuinely horrifying that these sorts of people exist in the world with as much power and influence as they do. If these people figure out fully automated weapons, the future is gonna be a bleak fucking place.

Remember when we used to laugh at "Sovereign Citizens" who kept trying to get out of registering their vehicles & driving without driver's licenses & traveling without passports & stop paying their mortgages etc?

The core idea of the Network State traces back to the 1997 book The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State, which imagined a future in which a wealthy class of “cognitive elites” would leave the United States for more pliant countries that would allow them to escape taxes and laws. The combined wealth of these elites would be powerful enough to create a competition in which weak countries would compete for their patronage by giving them whatever they want.

No backsies.

Look at the good side, Theil is proving religion is by and for humans, some of which consider themselves better than other humans.