Issue 47 - Everybody Knows

Table of Contents

• The Fight Was Fixed

• Incoming Cabinet

• The Fallacy of Authoritarianism

• The Myth of Cryptocurrency

• Blame Covid

• Ronces sends love

The Fight Was Fixed

The recent spectacle between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul promised a heavyweight clash. Instead, it became a perfect display of how attention is the real currency today. The fight wasn’t about combat; it was about capturing eyes and wallets. And it worked—until it didn't. The Netflix stream crashed repeatedly, and in the end, there was barely a fight at all. Tyson pulled his punches, literally biting his gloves instead of landing blows that could have ended it early. Only 18 punches thrown over eight rounds, and many of them missed.

But let’s not blame Mike. He pocketed $20 million for a night’s work, for what was little more than theater. And here's the kicker: everyone knows it was rigged. No one expected real, honest competition, but somehow, even in an era where truth is elusive, the scam was obvious—and nobody cared. The audience booed, viewers tuned out, but by then the real game was over. Attention had already been captured, bets already settled. The grift was complete, and everyone got paid.

A perfect spectacle for the MAGA era.

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Incoming Cabinet

Which brings us to a different spectacle: the incoming Cabinet for the President-elect. Never has there been such a collection of characters—rascals, schemers, and, honestly, a few who seem completely out of their depth. If you were looking to make government dysfunctional by design, these folks might just be your dream team.

But dysfunction isn’t the endgame—it’s the means to something more calculated. Crisis capitalism has always thrived on chaos, and we know the drill: dismantle what works, destabilize the rest, and profit from the wreckage. This time, though, it's not just about deregulation and corporate looting. It's about automation.

Automation of what? The state itself. Even though the technology isn’t nearly ready for this kind of power, the aim is to automate control, to replace bureaucrats with algorithms, and replace nuance with surveillance. And here’s where the plot thickens—Peter Thiel’s Palantir is already entrenched in the halls of government, feeding data and selling influence. Musk and Thiel—major backers of the new administration—are gearing up for a tech takeover of intelligence, of power, of everything that can be automated, monetized, or both.

The irony is glaring: in trying to dismantle the so-called “deep state,” they're poised to build a real one, replacing people with systems so opaque and unaccountable that true power becomes even more untouchable.

The Fallacy of Authoritarianism

But here’s the thing about authoritarianism: it doesn’t work, not the way its proponents want you to believe. It’s built on the myth of perfect control, but in reality, it crumbles under the weight of its own inefficiency. It doesn’t bring order; it breeds fear and chaos. It’s not based on some secret truth; it’s a desperate attempt to look invincible while running on empty.

The trains won’t run on time. There will be neither order nor prosperity. What will thrive is fear—because fear is what keeps people compliant. But in the face of that, we have to respond differently. We need resilience, humor, and a belief in something better. Authoritarianism may try to command respect, but it will never truly earn it. And that’s where our hope lies.

The Myth of Cryptocurrency

We’ve all heard the pitch: “trustless” systems, automated contracts, a new kind of freedom—but the truth is more complicated. This isn’t the automation of trust; it’s the elimination of trust, replacing it with surveillance, control, and constraint.

Real trust is human. It’s social. It involves risk, judgment, and the chance to be let down. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s what makes us capable of building real community, real freedom. Cryptocurrency, with its blockchain surveillance and every transaction locked in code, doesn’t offer that kind of trust. Instead, it offers certainty that feels sterile and cold.

In this “trustless” world, genuine cooperation becomes harder. Relationships become transactions, freedom becomes something controlled by code, and the spontaneity of human connection is lost. It’s not real freedom if it cuts us off from each other. We need to keep our eyes open, to understand that while the promise of these systems is shiny, the real cost is the very thing that makes us human—our ability to connect, to risk, and to trust.

Blame Covid

Last issue we suggested that the results of the recent Presidential election could be explained by white supremacy. Here’s a strong argument that supports that claim:

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Yet these things don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Another solid argument is that we can blame Covid, as the ongoing cause of our craptacular economy.

Ronces sends love

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