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Michael Driver's avatar

Feel free to use any quotes. Daniel Vasello quotes me almost daily without attributing!

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Frances Leader's avatar

Brilliant! I just HAD to cross-post this to all my Subscribers because we all need a good whack of positivity and optimism right now.... many thanks! xx

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Michael Driver's avatar

Thanks Frances much appreciated. I would be interested to hear what you think of my podcast with Julie Ponesse if you get chance to listen to it. Your obviously a maverick!

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Michael Driver's avatar

You’re

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Frances Leader's avatar

I was amazed and relieved to hear you lay no blame on people but turn your best guns on the Nobs. I have been writing about them for a decade and that is one of the reasons why I am de-platformed and here, in this ghetto, isolated from the general public.

I really liked Julie too. She is gentle but intelligent, a wonderful combination.

You can find the most relevant of my work listed here:

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101

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Michael Driver's avatar

Thanks again. Yes I really liked Julie. An artist (painter) aswell as ethics professor .

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Mary Morris's avatar

And, this link above are some of the best articles written explaining the history of the Black Nobility. All of your other articles are real gems too. I have learned so much from you. Thank you, Frances.

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Veronika Bond's avatar

Thank you Frances for sharing this! Such an important interview! 💗🙏

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matt Arnold's avatar

Past time, stay on the sunny side of the street. Frances you are a trooper and I cherish your posts

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Howard's avatar

Thank you, Frances!

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Glenn A. Melcher's avatar

thank You Frances Leader for taking the time to introduce Michael Driver..

such a wide divergence between the

words technocrat and hope …

thank You Michael Driver for sharing

Your insight

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mary-lou's avatar

although being fairly optimistic by nature, I can't help seeing Davos' weird eugenicist billionaires as chaff winnowed from the grain, far removed from reality. let's serve them another glass of hallucinogenic (and toxic) absinthe :-))

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Zork (the) Hun's avatar

yes, YES and YES!! I will most definitely quote this point:

"Centralization is an inexorable path towards a single point of failure." (and I will attribute)

...as I am in the middle of writing a post making similar points about the WEF

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Michael Driver's avatar

Thanks Zork share the piece when you’re finished

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Zork (the) Hun's avatar

Posted, with three more to come:

https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/vee-zee-people-in-zis-wroom

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JamesDuff's avatar

Well said!! I like the anger is a transitional emotional

Thinking we awake are initially angry … but the next

Step ok what to do? Pray live optimistically and don’t believe a word these DAVOS deviants think

God is laughing and we ought to mock their pathetic insecurities of technocratic poisoning

Propaganda pilfering petty power grabs!!

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Deb's avatar

Wonderful and inspiring! I will share this everywhere!

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Kathryn's avatar

Thank you for providing the ballast we need on this stormy sea.

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Mary Morris's avatar

This article made my day as well. I am always optimistic. This is how I remain sane throughout all of this chaos in the world. Thanks for sharing.

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Clancy Oz's avatar

So insightful. Optimism v fear

“Some twisted fantasy they call artificial intelligence”. Couldn’t agree more.

I said to a friend in 2019 that I “didn’t believe in AI”.

Meaning I know it’s a technology that has been created but essentially it’s just another man made machine. Pull out the power source, turn off the lights, nothing is there.

I believe in nature, that which is not dependent on man or his hubris….

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Michael Driver's avatar

We don’t need to worry about artificial intelligence more we should be the ‘artificialising’ of intelligence

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Glenn A. Melcher's avatar

that they ponder what life with fewer humans would be like,then

there AI mechanization can’t duplicate the care and compassion of humans by any measure..

but that won’t stop them from implementing this o

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Sunny Reads's avatar

Incredibly unreliable and flawed technology, which will likely disappear sooner than we think.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Wow this comes down hard on elites, who wouldn't agree. They think they're pretty special : )

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...They think they're pretty special...}🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Common human beings are not able of such strong self-deception, only psychopathic narcissist creatures are ...

Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria decomposing their corpses are the same as found on rats and similar vermin ... Karma is universal !!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Justin Owings's avatar

The "known unknowns" — I might have to steal that addendum (with attribution).

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Bertus's avatar

Wow, while I feel mavericks shouldn't agree on too much for too long, I can't help but nod at virtually every line in the interview Michael.

Trying to segregate the analog from the digital is such a clear description of the mistake made. Like the right brain is the master of the left hemispheric toolbox, so is the analog holding the digital. It simply cannot be the other way around.

So many of your thoughts align with my humble views. I am one of the manual class that has great internal clarity on the current phase, but great difficulty putting it into words that can be heard or read. I have been trying this last years to put it on paper, to share the inner cry without going into politics, or by following some other voice. My voice must matter, that's how I feel. If I can't make myself heard, who can?

Sharing, like conformity, must be voluntary, otherwise it turns ugly. Thank you, just subscribed and will be back to read more....

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Michael Driver's avatar

Thank you for taking the time to read and listen Bertus. You seem to be expressing yourself pretty eloquently in that reply there.

I see writing as as much a process of discovery as creativity. The next word seems to present itself independent of conscious forethought. I think I’m saying the door is open to all of us.

Let me know what you think if you get chance to read anything else.

The two Reckless Conformity articles might appeal to you I think.

‘Why the repetition, why the repetition’…

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The Word Herder's avatar

I'm so glad to hear you saying this!

I'm with you. I am struck by how many people I see DECLARING what is going to happen... and it's always a downer, somehow! But I think what we IMAGINE is part of how things work, so... keep an open mind, yeah! Cheers, it's refreshing to hear you. xo

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California Girl's avatar

Thank you for a lovely essay. I find it very heartening.

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Veronika Bond's avatar

What a wonderful conversation! Thank you so much, Julie Ponesse and Michael Driver 💕🙏

“That which cannot be domesticated in a man is not his evil but his goodness.”

“In the wildness is the preservation of the world, and that is in every human being.”

So many gems in this exchange. I completely resonate with the optimism.

Your views, Michael remind me of the Buckminster Fuller quote, "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Totally agree! and thank you both 💕🙏 for all your work 💕🙏

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