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The Second World Scam

COVID was the first global scam. AI scaremongering will most likely be the second.

There is a historical joke here. What we call World War I was originally just the Great War. Nobody numbered it, because nobody expected another one. Only the second made the first "First." Global scams will follow the same convention. The Great World Scam is behind us, and we are living in the inter-scam era.

The formula was simple: take a real phenomenon, exaggerate its scale, dominate the information environment, then sell extraordinary measures as the only responsible choice. The virus was dangerous enough to frighten people and nowhere near dangerous enough to justify the response.

If it worked once, someone will try again. But not with another virus – too many people have learned the game. And the ideal racket needs panic without destruction. You cannot milk a dead cow. Governments do not need dead subjects. They need productive ones. That is also why war is becoming a clumsy tool: why destroy wealth you can redistribute?

Climate is too slow – a catastrophe permanently scheduled for the future works as a framework, not as a racket.

AI is the perfect candidate. It is real, powerful, fast, and almost impossible for ordinary people to verify. And it concerns information itself – the clearest lesson of COVID was that whoever controls information controls interpretation.

The script almost writes itself. First come years of warnings from scientists, CEOs and former insiders. Then a series of incidents: a self-driving car kills, a chatbot blackmails, an algorithm crashes a market. Some are real, some exaggerated, some staged, and for the narrative the difference hardly matters. Then dramatic resignations. These are already happening. Then the big event: networks down, banks frozen, grids flickering. Nobody knows whether it was AI, sabotage or a bug – so whoever controls the narrative decides.

Then comes the solution: certified operating systems, digital ID, licensed hardware, bans on open-source models, limits on encryption, and remote kill switches in every processor. Every measure is a new market, and every market a new fortune. Fear first, control second, profit third.

AI does not need to be invented. Only the catastrophe does. The accident becomes an emergency, the emergency becomes a measure, and the measure becomes permanent – the only part of any emergency that never ends.

World wars were numbered. Why not world scams?

11.09.26