Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Asimov. I kindly pity someone who didn’t read their books (of course, except if he or she wanted to read a true science). So, how come these popular non-fiction authors have become disgraceful when I used to have them in high esteem?
1 Dawkins/1000 other authors available, many of them much better
“Nice guys finish last.” A phrase often used by Richard Dawkins. And he uses it because he knows it cannot be more truthful.
So how come we have one Richard Dawkins when there are thousands of available authors who could have paved this way the same? Or do you think Mr. Dawkins is so genius that he is alone? Well, you are naive. So what makes him different?
Nothing but connections matter
Why the heck does someone need a connection to write? Well, it is the same as with politicians. You cannot get up the ladder without the interest groups. You must serve them.
But why should people like these serve as an interest group? Because when you are influential, you may be dangerous to the ruling elites.
When I am talking about ruling elites, I don’t mean the clowns called politicians that are at the time they serve more powerful than the background elites. But it takes 4 years and they are gone. The hidden groups last forever. Their presence is evidence-based as those aforementioned authors want to be scientific.
Speaking of the US, there are thousands of clientelist groups based on unimaginable amounts of capital flows (because we live in capitalism). And those groups are destroying the political process to its core. It is clogged.
If people were able, they would go and try to uncover those groups and vote for the proper parties. However, since we have a caveman mentality and are equipped for the politics of small hunger-gathering groups, the status quo remains and it is good for these authors.
How dangerous they can be?
A ton of money is at stake. They are sitting on hundreds of trillions of dollars. They are not poor. And while even the US middle or upper class doesn’t care, hundreds of millions of people on this planet have no healthcare, clean water, or food, do you really think these super-rich groups care?
So Dawkins has 3 million followers on X (formerly Twitter). And writes books. Imagine not only exposing those behind but also going against their interests.
It would be only a time a car would run over him, but the damage (for them) would have been done.
His influence is immense, he lacks any empathy, sympathy, or support for his successors.
Yes, he can make himself dominant because of his power
Since Homo sapiens’ relationships are so complex, he can make influence other guys really finish the first.
Also, his publisher may think the sole name is enough and he may prevent others from publishing.
But wait! Hawking was published because of his scientific prestige
This is partly true. While he was really one of the smartest minds that have ever lived, he must have gotten approval.
For example, we could find names of others of his who were on the top of science and didn’t publish. Einstein would be a fine example.
But he was so immersed in science that he had little time to write popular books. But do you think Hawking have written it just by himself? Either Einstein didn’t want or he didn’t have approval.
Power structures everywhere
Sam Harris canceled his X (Twitter) account. Maybe he disliked it. But maybe his patrons (in the patron-client relationship) just wanted him to do it.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, George Soros, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, the FED. Maybe there is an unlimited number of patron-client connections. But something is telling me they don’t have the best intentions with us.
Atheists, but used religious clientelism
I don’t have to reiterate I do have a strong dislike for religion. And what I hate the most is clientelism based on religion. I don’t care whether it is Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish.
The two first own the banks in the US, and the third possesses so many assets in the US that it is hard to imagine. And they are repulsed by each other.
Do you think “the bad guy” Richard Dawkins ended last? No, power structures are everywhere.
Really no clientelism? Christopher Hitchens was on good terms with the Bush administration
How the hell author can be on good terms with the government? In a world without clientelism, there is no need for it.
The late Hitchens wrote the book The Trial of Henry Kissinger. While persons who at least consider themselves not too evil in the moral nihilism we live should have no problem with it (George W. Bush liked Kissinger).
But how can you write against someone who is so powerful and well-connected? Well, by connecting with his enemies that are equally, less, or more powerful.
Sadly, the best of the best don’t get the chance
While I explained that clientelism rules it all, it is hard to imagine when really the best (though not content with establishment crimes) would get their chance.
All of the big names I mentioned would get embarrassed.
Connections are everything
People go into politics to gain connections for working in business or as lobbyists. Similarly, people from powerful banks (just like Emmanuel Macron) receive approval to move into politics.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both had connections – without them, they would have been nothing. Please note that these individuals remain all-time geniuses, but the connections!
Either a new startup is well-connected, or they find the founders, assess their psychological profiles (to see if they are conformist enough), and then the green light is given.
The secret apparatus obviously needs to control people.
Richard Dawkins, the Mr. Clinetelism
When you are too clientelist, you must appear at major (backed by the super-rich) political parties events.
But DailyMail often describes Dawkins as controversial. And the journalists know what to write. It is not controversy itself, it is being able to navigate in complicated world of connections.
Yes, I have idealized Richard Dawkins. Make no mistake, he is a great author. But also Mr. Clientelism.
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