{"id":3037,"date":"2025-03-10T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:12:22","slug":"ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontological shock, Milton Friedman and societal control."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ontological Shock, Milton Friedman, and Social Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her book &#8220;The Shock Doctrine,&#8221; Naomi Klein explores the case of Dr. Ewen Cameron, a physician who believed that electroshock therapy could eliminate negative aspects of the psyche, making way for a completely new identity to be formed from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>This concept echoes the ideology of Milton Friedman, the revered economist among capitalists and advocates of free markets. Friedman posited that the state of shock following a disaster provides a prime opportunity for society to be reshaped.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent figures like Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, and their billionaire counterparts appear to be interested in transforming society into a techno-feudalist structure. Could their increasing focus on UFO disclosures be more than just a fascination with technology? Might it also serve as a way to leverage \u2018ontological shock\u2019 in a manner akin to Friedman\u2019s ideas for societal restructuring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nOntological Shock, Milton Friedman, and Social Control In her book &#8220;The Shock Doctrine,&#8221; Naomi Klein explores the case of Dr. Ewen Cameron, a physician who believed that electroshock therapy could eliminate negative aspects of the psyche, making way for a completely new identity to be formed from the ground up. This concept echoes the ideology&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ontological shock, Milton Friedman and societal control.&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}