{"id":4945,"date":"2025-03-11T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-3\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:46:40","slug":"ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-3\/","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 Naomi Klein&#8217;s book <em>Shock Doctrine<\/em>, she recounts the story of Dr. Ewen Cameron, a physician who believed that electroshock therapy could erase negative aspects of the psyche, allowing for the development of a new individual identity from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>This concept parallels the ideology of Milton Friedman, the revered figure among capitalists and proponents of free markets. For Friedman, the state of shock that follows a disaster presents an optimal opportunity for society to be fundamentally restructured.<\/p>\n<p>Figures like Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, and their wealthy associates are keen on transforming society into a techno-feudalist system. Is their increasing interest in UFO disclosure merely about technological control, or could it also be a strategy to leverage &#8216;ontological shock&#8217; as a Friedman-esque approach to societal reformation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nOntological Shock, Milton Friedman, and Social Control In Naomi Klein&#8217;s book Shock Doctrine, she recounts the story of Dr. Ewen Cameron, a physician who believed that electroshock therapy could erase negative aspects of the psyche, allowing for the development of a new individual identity from scratch. This concept parallels the ideology of Milton Friedman, the&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control-3\/\" 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":4433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4945","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\/4945","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=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}