I probably did as much as anybody to popularize on the American right the Turkish/Italian term "the deep state." After visiting Turkey in 2009, I blogged:
I never get into conspiracy theorising because the truth is actually darker than that. In the 21st c. West, what might be called 'The Deep State' is in fact out of control....by ANYONE. In the UK we call it The Blob and I wrote about it recently in this post: "There was a great little cartoon in The Spectator the other day:“Forget your leader, take me to your civil servants” says the alien space invader (complete with tv aerial sticking out of his head) to a bewildered old man out for a walk with his dog. A picture worth - as they say - a thousand words. An astute cartoon observation about political reality in our rich Western societies......" https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-experts
I'm not sure but the first I was aware of it was when Michael Gove was Education Minister and was (unsuccessfully) doing battle with the Lefty establishment - including his own civil servants. I think The Blob comes from some sci fi movie but don't know which one.
Despite your reluctance to theorize (corrected your limey spelling) you've actually come up with a good theory: the Western Deep State has spun outta the control of the elites, DS bureaucrats, and the NGO operatives. Recent history shows them working like clockwork: gain-of-functioned virus released in late 2019, 2020 aka Year Zero brings race terror, chaos, lockdowns on movement and normal political activity, and mandated gene therapy drugs which alter DNA to a dreadful degree -- a global experiment to usher in the biodigital convergence. Perhaps the lack of DS control is due to tiredness from a few busy years.
Organisations such as the International Panel on Climate Change, the International Criminal Court and now the World Health Organisation increasingly seem to regard themselves as part of an embryonic global EU calling itself the rules-based international order. Having grudgingly accepted the reality of Brexit for the time being, the British Blob seems to have transferred its allegiance to this global Blob. Sooner or later, I anticipate that we shall find ourselves taking our sports policy from FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, since it is one of the new axioms that a wider jurisdiction is always a higher one.
I believe Mr. Giusti refers to this: "Early Life" section of the Eric Schmidt wiki page has gone back and forth on whether it should list him as Jewish. It is an "edit war."
Those who seek to include that info point to Eric Schmidt's inclusion on a list by 'Forbes Israel' of "Jewish billionaires." Schmidt also evidently has extensive ties to Israel and gives speeches to Jewish activist groups and audiences in Israel itself, to a degree that would be unusual (but not impossible) for a Gentile with no Jewish ties whatsoever.
Those favoring removal of the line that Eric Schmidt is Jewish argue this: he has not publicly confirmed it, there is no proof (a list by 'Forbes Israel' could be wrong); so the info should not be included. It's currently not on the 'live' wikipedia page. But it was last week. So it goes with the strange little world of "wikipedia edit wars"!
Eric Schmidt as definitely non-Jewish makes sense because, among other reasons, I don't know that I've heard "Schmidt" as a Jewish surname before.
We see better evidence of Christian origin: Eric Schmidt married Wendy Susan Boyle (the latter definitely not a Jewish name) in 1980 at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, in Short Hills, New Jersey, near Seton Hall University, in a ceremony co-officiated by multiple clergyman, one Catholic and three Protestants.
Other info suggests Eric Schmidt's father, Wilson E. Schmidt, a Reagan appointee to the World Bank among other things, had Midwest Protestant family ties. Schmidt's father was, apparently, a classic case of the Brain Drain. phenomenon, well underway already in the mid-20th century. He got scooped up by the power-magnet of Washington, and his son (b.1955) was already being raised in it. There is no real sign of Jewish family origin there.
Eric Schmidt's own pro-Jewish views are presumably his own, which he developed over decades of close contact.
Seems obvious to me that Dr. Jill is the true power behind the throne. How else to explain some of the bone-headed absurdities of the Biden administration? A dog mangling secret service agents, Hunter leaving baggies of coke lying around in the White House, Sam Brinton (she apparently likes gay men)...
Nobody else could tell Joe "sign this" or "don't sign this" and get away with it.
I don't understand why you didn't say the most obvious individual and the group behind the throne: Obama and his minions ... I believe this is the most under-reported fact in current events. Since 2016, he and his cohort have actively been subverting, first, Trump and, second, half the country ... Isn't this plausible at all to you, Steve? He still resides in D.C. And he regularly shoots off his mouth like his opinion still matters ... unlike past presidents. He nearly confessed publicly that he would be happy to stay behind the scenes and rule through an avatar.
Ockham's Razor should be reclassified as Ockham's Razor Fallacy, because the amount of conditions required to be attached to its original formulation to make it hold renders it completely useless and impossible. Just like the No True Scotsman Fallacy really isn't a fallacy given the legitimate distinctions between individuals and groups, i.e., individual blacks, or Jew, and blacks and Jews.
Schmidt's greatest innovation (until the kamikaze robots are fully operational) was figuring out how to supply the democrats with massive computational power and database access without tripping any FEC "in-kind donation" tripwires. Might just be that the FEC is a typical, ancient bureaucracy and didnt recognize what a valuable asset Eric was shoveling in the backdoor. They could see it wasn't actual cash so they didn't care. Either way, he was the secret giver who made it work.
The reasonable answer is that all three -- Peak State, Shallow State, and Deep State -- exist at the same time, overlapping and interlocking, forming a stable system.
The rise of the term "the Regime" is of interest here. It got traction in the early 2020s.
What do people mean when they say "The Regime" (or, for example, "Regime media," which sounds radical but even Laura Ingraham of Fox News has used it for several years now)? It's a permanent system, unelected and unelectable, which has its own agenda, and transcends the nominal elected officials, but often encompassing them. About the same time, several wags independently came up with the phrase "Media-Run State," which I'd say is a humorous way to express much the same idea.
“The context of social networks serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we intended,” Schmidt said at a virtual conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. “Unless the industry gets its act together in a really clever way, there will be regulation.”
I think shallow state makes the most sense. I find the term peak state quite misleading, My sense is it means the state is controlled by the guy at the top (the peak) and not by some shadowy deep state. But the term peak state has a second connotation of heyday, as in the "Roman State at its peak." And that would very much not be today, as we stand ready to elect our own Severus Alexander.
I never get into conspiracy theorising because the truth is actually darker than that. In the 21st c. West, what might be called 'The Deep State' is in fact out of control....by ANYONE. In the UK we call it The Blob and I wrote about it recently in this post: "There was a great little cartoon in The Spectator the other day:“Forget your leader, take me to your civil servants” says the alien space invader (complete with tv aerial sticking out of his head) to a bewildered old man out for a walk with his dog. A picture worth - as they say - a thousand words. An astute cartoon observation about political reality in our rich Western societies......" https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-experts
Open Source advocate and computing pioneer Eric Raymond uses the term "prospiracy" to describe a looser form of organization then a conspiracy.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=67
When did British people start using the phrase "The Blob" to refer to the permanent bureaucracy?
I'm not sure but the first I was aware of it was when Michael Gove was Education Minister and was (unsuccessfully) doing battle with the Lefty establishment - including his own civil servants. I think The Blob comes from some sci fi movie but don't know which one.
Despite your reluctance to theorize (corrected your limey spelling) you've actually come up with a good theory: the Western Deep State has spun outta the control of the elites, DS bureaucrats, and the NGO operatives. Recent history shows them working like clockwork: gain-of-functioned virus released in late 2019, 2020 aka Year Zero brings race terror, chaos, lockdowns on movement and normal political activity, and mandated gene therapy drugs which alter DNA to a dreadful degree -- a global experiment to usher in the biodigital convergence. Perhaps the lack of DS control is due to tiredness from a few busy years.
Organisations such as the International Panel on Climate Change, the International Criminal Court and now the World Health Organisation increasingly seem to regard themselves as part of an embryonic global EU calling itself the rules-based international order. Having grudgingly accepted the reality of Brexit for the time being, the British Blob seems to have transferred its allegiance to this global Blob. Sooner or later, I anticipate that we shall find ourselves taking our sports policy from FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, since it is one of the new axioms that a wider jurisdiction is always a higher one.
Mr. Schmidt has a very interesting "Early life" section on Wikipedia.
I didn’t find it particularly interesting.
I believe Mr. Giusti refers to this: "Early Life" section of the Eric Schmidt wiki page has gone back and forth on whether it should list him as Jewish. It is an "edit war."
Those who seek to include that info point to Eric Schmidt's inclusion on a list by 'Forbes Israel' of "Jewish billionaires." Schmidt also evidently has extensive ties to Israel and gives speeches to Jewish activist groups and audiences in Israel itself, to a degree that would be unusual (but not impossible) for a Gentile with no Jewish ties whatsoever.
Those favoring removal of the line that Eric Schmidt is Jewish argue this: he has not publicly confirmed it, there is no proof (a list by 'Forbes Israel' could be wrong); so the info should not be included. It's currently not on the 'live' wikipedia page. But it was last week. So it goes with the strange little world of "wikipedia edit wars"!
https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/08/09/top-10-non-jews-positively-influencing-the-jewish-future-2012/
Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing the Jewish Future 2012
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6. Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt as definitely non-Jewish makes sense because, among other reasons, I don't know that I've heard "Schmidt" as a Jewish surname before.
We see better evidence of Christian origin: Eric Schmidt married Wendy Susan Boyle (the latter definitely not a Jewish name) in 1980 at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, in Short Hills, New Jersey, near Seton Hall University, in a ceremony co-officiated by multiple clergyman, one Catholic and three Protestants.
Other info suggests Eric Schmidt's father, Wilson E. Schmidt, a Reagan appointee to the World Bank among other things, had Midwest Protestant family ties. Schmidt's father was, apparently, a classic case of the Brain Drain. phenomenon, well underway already in the mid-20th century. He got scooped up by the power-magnet of Washington, and his son (b.1955) was already being raised in it. There is no real sign of Jewish family origin there.
Eric Schmidt's own pro-Jewish views are presumably his own, which he developed over decades of close contact.
In my experience, Forbes Israel is not very reliable.
Eric Schmidt appears to be a conventional German-American gentile. But I could be wrong about that.
Mr. E. H. Hail ninja'd my answer, to which i refer.
Was he hatched from a silicon egg?
Edit needed:
“Yet, I'm not that big fan of a fan of now popular theories about the Unknown Power Behind the Throne…”
Personally, I the Blob is a better word for it.
"Blob" originally applied to the U.S. foreign-policy elite, specifically; coined circa the mid-2010s.
Seems obvious to me that Dr. Jill is the true power behind the throne. How else to explain some of the bone-headed absurdities of the Biden administration? A dog mangling secret service agents, Hunter leaving baggies of coke lying around in the White House, Sam Brinton (she apparently likes gay men)...
Nobody else could tell Joe "sign this" or "don't sign this" and get away with it.
I don't understand why you didn't say the most obvious individual and the group behind the throne: Obama and his minions ... I believe this is the most under-reported fact in current events. Since 2016, he and his cohort have actively been subverting, first, Trump and, second, half the country ... Isn't this plausible at all to you, Steve? He still resides in D.C. And he regularly shoots off his mouth like his opinion still matters ... unlike past presidents. He nearly confessed publicly that he would be happy to stay behind the scenes and rule through an avatar.
Ockham's Razor should be reclassified as Ockham's Razor Fallacy, because the amount of conditions required to be attached to its original formulation to make it hold renders it completely useless and impossible. Just like the No True Scotsman Fallacy really isn't a fallacy given the legitimate distinctions between individuals and groups, i.e., individual blacks, or Jew, and blacks and Jews.
Schmidt's greatest innovation (until the kamikaze robots are fully operational) was figuring out how to supply the democrats with massive computational power and database access without tripping any FEC "in-kind donation" tripwires. Might just be that the FEC is a typical, ancient bureaucracy and didnt recognize what a valuable asset Eric was shoveling in the backdoor. They could see it wasn't actual cash so they didn't care. Either way, he was the secret giver who made it work.
The reasonable answer is that all three -- Peak State, Shallow State, and Deep State -- exist at the same time, overlapping and interlocking, forming a stable system.
The rise of the term "the Regime" is of interest here. It got traction in the early 2020s.
What do people mean when they say "The Regime" (or, for example, "Regime media," which sounds radical but even Laura Ingraham of Fox News has used it for several years now)? It's a permanent system, unelected and unelectable, which has its own agenda, and transcends the nominal elected officials, but often encompassing them. About the same time, several wags independently came up with the phrase "Media-Run State," which I'd say is a humorous way to express much the same idea.
On the topic of AI suicide drones (courtesy of JohnnyWalker123 over at Steve's blog on Unz.com):
https://x.com/jasondebolt/status/1805167473056235813
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/former-google-ceo-calls-social-networks-amplifiers-for-idiots
https://archive.ph/jp6E8
“The context of social networks serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we intended,” Schmidt said at a virtual conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. “Unless the industry gets its act together in a really clever way, there will be regulation.”
I think shallow state makes the most sense. I find the term peak state quite misleading, My sense is it means the state is controlled by the guy at the top (the peak) and not by some shadowy deep state. But the term peak state has a second connotation of heyday, as in the "Roman State at its peak." And that would very much not be today, as we stand ready to elect our own Severus Alexander.
A better term may be "WYSIWYG State," but the acronym is probably too obscure to stick.
I like it; it's dead accurate, but agree it's not likely to stick.