Topic: Intelligentsia

The guest discusses his experience working at a think tank funded by the Koch brothers, which he now views as controlled opposition. He outlines a strategy for societal change that focuses on influencing the top five to ten percent of society, including entrepreneurs and intellectuals. The theory suggests that once this "intelligentsia" shifts its allegiance away from the state, the rest of the population will follow.

Etienne de la Boetie Squared outlines a "brute force" strategy to bypass internet censorship by dropping physical books and flash drives at 100,000 homes in New Hampshire. He believes targeting the intelligentsia and parents of high schoolers will create a tipping point for secession and the exposure of government illegitimacy. He estimates this project could be executed for one million dollars, potentially leveraging fifty million dollars in earned media.