The Secret History of Cybernetics w/ ”Phillip Jeffries” & Recluse (Patreon)

Cybernetics, Plato, Plato's Republic, Bronisław Trentowski, mysticism, Freemasonry, Messianism, Trontowski's concept of cybernetics vs modern form, Louis Couffignal, André-Marie Ampère, feedback, Claude Shannon, information theory, Technocracy Movement, Alexander Bogdanov, Cosmism, Norbert Weiner, Vannevar Bush, MIT, the Rad Lab, Lincoln Lab, J.C.R. Lickliddder, First Law of Cybernetics, "Nudge theory," Lewis Mumford, "Megamachine," "The Machine," Chile, Allende, Project Cybersyn, Project Camelot, cyberculture, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, the Edge Foundation, Jeffrey Epstein, TED Talks, MIT Media Lab, memetics, memes, memes as cultural transmitters, Richard Dawkins, "converging technologies," George Soros, Soros' influence on cybernetics, Soros' as cybernetic coup master, Macy Conferences, LSD, Milton Erickson, neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, behavioral modification, MK-ULTRA, Ewen Cameron, Donald Hebb, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, anthropology, Harold Abramson, Frank Olson