Exposing WikiLeaks

The Plot to Overthrow the U.S. Deep State

“An authoritarian conspiracy that cannot think efficiently, cannot act to preserve itself against the opponents it induces.”¹

In a 2011 interview with former Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks said that “populations basically don’t like wars and they have to be lied into it. That means we can be ‘truthed’ into peace. That is cause for great hope.”² It is hopeful thinking, indeed, but false. First of all, it isn’t true that people are only lied into wars. From time to time, we also embrace wars willingly. Secondly, the majority of people isn’t interested in the truth as long as they’re doing better than their neighbors.

But thirdly, and this is the crux, Assange’s thinking has fallen for the power fallacy, the false belief that the world is strictly ruled by top-down hierarchies of power. It denies that power often results from bottom-up competencies that are, in fact, beneficial to the world. Psychologist Jordan Peterson correctly pointed out that if a society were solely based on power, instead of on “the competence necessary to get important and difficult things done, it [would] be prone to collapse.”³

Sabotaging competency to fight power spells catastrophe.