{"id":771,"date":"2025-03-09T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:25:53","slug":"ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control\/","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 work of Dr. Ewen Cameron, a physician who believed that electroconvulsive therapy could eradicate negative aspects of the psyche, making way for a completely new personality to be formed from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>This concept remarkably parallels the ideology of Milton Friedman, the revered figure among capitalists and advocates of free markets. Friedman posited that the state of shock resulting from a disaster presents an optimal opportunity for societal restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaires like Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, and their affluent associates are eager to mold society into a techno-feudalist structure. Might their increasing focus on UFO disclosure be driven not just by a desire for technological control, but also by an intention to utilize \u2018ontological shock\u2019 as a Friedman-esque approach to reconfigure society?<\/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 work of Dr. Ewen Cameron, a physician who believed that electroconvulsive therapy could eradicate negative aspects of the psyche, making way for a completely new personality to be formed from scratch. This concept remarkably parallels the ideology of Milton&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/ontological-shock-milton-friedman-and-societal-control\/\" 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":770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","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\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}