"From a common sense perspective, no functioning pluralistic democracy is going to suddenly throw up its hands and become a dictatorship, right? You must have the interim step. You need chaos. You need anarchy.

"But what if you can’t actually create anarchy, so instead you construct the perception of total chaos? What if you set up massive cable, social media, and influencer networks to just tell people all day that the world is going to hell? What if you build a Simple Chaos alternate reality attractor? [a simulator]

"The natural dynamic of a state in Simple Chaos is to settle into Simple Order. A noisy, chaotic state doesn’t suddenly become more complex, it tries to minimize energy and noise in the system; it simplifies itself. This is why chaos is the dictator’s lifeblood. He needs it, so he can “solve” it through autocratic control."
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Open Adaptive Systems Theory & the War on Complexity

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MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

"None of this means we are deterministically doomed to go through #anarchy before falling into a #dictatorship—all before we even have a chance of getting back to normal. Not at all. This assumes two facts not in evidence:

"1. Despite running a Simple Chaos simulator for a decade, with nearly a year in power again to turn it into reality through violent paramilitaries, tariffs, and foreign adventurism, the country still refuses to break down into tears and terror.

"2. The effort to unbind America by destroying empathy isn’t working to plan—to the contrary, it appears that the opposite is happening. It turns out #empathy is not something you can just take away from people. It’s built in to the system.

"The same people who built the simulation are the people who declare empathy to be “suicidal” because it is all part of the same project: to destabilize our Complex Order into Simple Chaos, so they can profit from the Simple Order of Bitcoin, Tesla, Palantir and Donald Trump."