President Donald Trump has picked Jim O’Neill, a former investor and critic of health regulations serving under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to take control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out.
O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy at the Department of Health and Human Services, will supplant Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist who had been the CDC director for less than a month.
Monarez’s lawyers said she refused “to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.”
Yeah, I remember a lot of vague circle-jerk kind of conversations about it on USENET, and that was before a lot of billions were made by the likes of Thiel…I mean, besides the engineering aspect, I don’t know what would be in it for the typical human being who is not a decamillionaire+ to join up and be part of some weird cult/Ayn Randian human experiment? Just to be “free” of current nation-states and join a new one?
On a related note, I started reading The Sovereign Individual since it apparently inspires so much of these fucking whack-a-doodles with wayyyyy too much money than is good for the world, and … wow. I recommend everyone check it out since it’s quite the ride at least so far.
No wonder these dipsticks like the ideas in there, since it is hitting every note that someone with way too much money and notions of grandiosity would just looooove. I’m not sure how well this stuff dovetails with the likes of what Curtis Yarvin is spewing, but I think it doesn’t come in direct conflict with his “ideas”, LOL.
In a word - these people are fucking nuts. I’d love to see some way to wrest a lot of money, and therefore, power away from them, since they hold way too much sway over the rest of us.