2 years from now you will not work you and will not worry about money you will get your cash payments from from all the major AI labs think of it like 3-5 companies giving you a thousand dollar check every week

“Antichrist” doesn’t just mean against Christ. It means in place of Christ. Silicon Valley promises AI will give us wisdom, heal our bodies, end scarcity, watch over us, and grant eternal life. Sound familiar? Joe Allen (@JOEBOTxyz), author of Dark Aeon, on AI as Antichrist at our latest event in Nashville. Full talk below:

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The Removal of the Teacher as a Moral Witness The teacher is not just an instructor. They are the last unmediated adult in a child's institutional life who knows them, notices when something is wrong, and can intervene as a human being. Alpha School replaces them with software and "guides" adults who, according to a former CEO, were often explicitly "targeted" for having no teaching background. The guides' role is to supplement the technology, not to be the primary relationship. The pedagogical model is not designed to cultivate deep understanding or critical thinking. A Cambridge University Press analysis describes it as converting "learning into data production," deskilling teachers, and normalizing surveillance, with schooling "reorganized around profit, techno-utopianism, and anti-democratic assumptions." This is not education. It is the industrial processing of children into measurable data points. The Data Extraction: The Real Product The platform does not just teach. It surveils, with a handbook that states there is "no expectation of privacy" on campus. The system can record screen activity, mouse and keyboard usage, and employ eye-tracking programs. It has tracked students' facial expressions and continuously monitored their emotional states, leaving students distressed. Students have reported being monitored through their laptop webcams by individuals at offshore call centers "cheap labor from across the pond" and being forced onto Zoom calls with "some random guy from normally India" to explain wrong answers. One former student described the experience plainly: "We were just kind of robots." This is the intake pipeline for a social credit system. A platform that holds a child's complete academic, behavioral, and emotional history from age five to eighteen, recorded daily, is not a school. It is a developmental dossier. And according to reporting, that data was stored in a Google Drive accessible to anyone with the link, with seemingly limited access controls. The company's negligence with children's most intimate data is itself a confession of what it values. The Philosophy: Children as Economic Units The school's principal, billionaire Joe Liemandt, is explicit about his vision. He has committed $1 billion to scale the model to a billion children via sub-$1,000 tablets. The curriculum includes teaching credit-card interest by having children borrow and repay at a 25% APR in a "safe setting." Financial literacy from kindergarten is framed as learning to navigate a system of debt. This is not education for citizenship, for wisdom, or for the formation of a soul. It is training for participation in a debt-based, transactional economy. The child is being prepared not to be a free human being, but a compliant economic node. The Connection to the Broader Architecture This is where the dots connect to everything else. A person who has never had an unmediated relationship with a teacher, who has been monitored by machines and remote strangers, who has learned that their emotions are data points to be optimized, and who has been trained from childhood to see themselves as an economic unit that person is the ideal subject for the control grid. The Internet of Bodies requires people who accept that their biology is data. The CBDC and social credit require people who accept that their economic access is conditional. The 15-minute city requires people who do not have the deep communal bonds that would make them resist being geographically contained. None of this works on people who have a room full of friends they would fight for. All of it works on people whose primary relationships are with systems.