ENERGY OF THE CROWDS

Win The Crowd And You Will Win Your Freedom. Or Will You?

At the intersection of politics, culture, and everything in between is the potential for harnessing the energy of the crowds. Whether it’s immigration riots, BLM riots, Palestine riots, pussy hat rallies, no democratically elected kings rallies, Iranian rallies, ecoterrorism rallies, football rallies, or social media bots, real or astro-turfed, crowds hold kinetic energy. Increasingly important as AI slashes jobs, successful control of crowds requires great power and deep understanding to turn something unpredictable in nature to something desirable. But desirable to whom and how exactly is it accomplished? The answer is the prognosis on the state of the American empire.

If You Build It, He Will Come

Analysis on the psychology of crowds essentially boils down to base human instincts. Nothing unleashes and directs instincts quite like sports. From the hooliganism of football fans to the inspirational underdogs of Olympians, sports spark universal human passions, loyalties, divisions, and unity. We love sports, and we especially love sports for our kids. Travel teams, private coaches, training sessions, weights, videos, $400 bats, weekend tournaments three hours away, all for 8-year-olds. Therein lies the problem. Sports is America’s blind spot. Have we forgotten about Rick Singer and Varsity Blues? Even with past and continuing controversies over BLM kneeling and pride hats, the base of American culture is in sports. If you don’t believe us, search Ohio’s bills imposing $10M fines on TV networks or athletic conferences if (The) Ohio State plays another top-10 ranked team at noon, unless the matchup qualifies as a longstanding traditional rivalry, and making flag planting by college athletes a felony, punishable by 6 to 12 months in jail. Yes, jail for college flag planting. So, it’s not surprising we have spent years covering the global Marxist programming of America’s elite by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) through identity ideology, SEL (social emotional learning), data collection, institutional capture, and the accreditation cartel (for a refresher, see How NAIS Took Over Elite Education), but have neglected to cover the one glaringly conspicuous but otherwise innocuous topic – sports. It’s been easy for the increasingly singular focus on sports at NAIS Schools to hide under the radar because it is not CRT/DEI. But show someone Independent X School’s athletics department page replete with coaches, assistant coaches, performance coaches, athletic directors, program heads, sports psychologists, and sports medicine administrators, and he’ll think it belongs to Duke.

While colleges have experienced landmark NIL and NCAA rulings in the past few months, the past few decades have seen historic sports spending at NAIS Schools. State of the art recovery facilities, dedicated weight rooms, and special schedules for athletes are just a few amenities NAIS Schools have been building into their coliseums. Not just ordinary coliseums, these are public-private partnership arenas. In 2023, Deerfield Academy (MA), alma mater to King Abdullah II of Jordan and school “choice” advocate David Koch, worked with the Massachusetts Development Financing Agency to issue $89M in bonds to fund the renovation of its dining hall and build an athletics complex. Deerfield’s CFO found it preferable to borrow and issue municipal bonds, which are supposed to finance public projects, rather than dip into their measly $800M endowment (now roughly $1B) or – gasp! – stick to using donations. In 2017, Harvard-Westlake (CA), alma mater to MAGA Barbie Natalie Winters, Breitbart Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow, and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Treasury Department Julia Hahn, spent over $40M to purchase a property for a $100M sports campus fit with “educational monuments calling attention to the history and culture of the [Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians] tribe’s ancestors...” and other community partners. In 2011, Spence (NY) paid $26.1M for a parking lot it turned into a $102M gym it allows public school students to use in accordance with an agreement with the Department of Education. The future of education is not education. The future of education is sports.

Show Me The Money

It may be surprising that high school students have already inked international NIL deals, but it’s no surprise the first to do so over 3 years ago were NAIS School students (Harvard-Westlake). Still more interesting is how NAIS Schools have secured athletes using the extortion of private clubs even as high school sports have otherwise lost athletes to the extortion of private clubs. Using their prestige, NAIS Schools have established their own private clubs/travel teams run by their own coaches and athletic directors. Some NAIS School affiliated private clubs for younger children use school facilities to the exclusion of actual tuition paying students. Parents clamor to throw money at NAIS School private clubs in the hopes it will secure their children admission into Independent X School. NAIS Schools have essentially made their own farm leagues from which they can mold and recruit gladiators while enriching themselves. We’ll give them credit for their creativity – if grifting is the creativity our elite educational institutions should be modeling.

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has and is with the ever industry ruining PE driving all possible enjoyment and value out of franchise, experience, and meaning. The final holdout, the NFL now allows PE to own up to 10% of a team. Symphony Technology Group and Sixth Street bought the Celtics in the highest sale price for a North American franchise. Mark Cuban launched $750M Harbinger Sports Partners. Anti-LIV principles are a thing of the past with Rory Mcllroy launching TPG Sports, which secured funds from Abu Dhabi based Lunate. Even the Texas Permanent School Fund is partnering with Elevate and Velocity Capital Management. What does this mean for NAIS Schools? It shows, once again, NAIS Schools were the harbinger paving their institutions for this landscape. Come to think of it, it holds similarity to Bill Ackman (Trinity, NY; parent Horace Mann, NY; alum parent Dalton, NY) cozying up to Trump before seeing an 80% return on his Tel Aviv Stock Exchange investment just 10 months later. (See inclusion of Ackman’s investment in our January 26, 2024 Substack.) Pretty remarkable coincidences, don’t you think?

Hats For Bats…Keep Bats Warm

But even PE isn’t enough as private capital takes hold. And once again we come to the same thesis. NAIS Schools have shown there is no end to expansion over focusing on the fundamentals. Intellectualism, scholarship, reason above base human impulses are all being overrun by greed. The graphics speak for themselves. It’s always something – another derivative, another regime change, another Marxist campaign. Long gone are the innocent days of the George Foreman grill. From PE to public-private partnerships to private credit to post-tournament parlays, the revolution is always looking to profit on new frontiers regardless of the consequence. What started in Independent X Classroom, we see the invisible hand lacking morality unleashed on society. When you stop teaching the virtues of John Adams and the religion of the Bible, the government led by NAIS School alums is unable to control human passions – passions that are being harnessed in sports whether playing or speculating to distract us from and compel us to gleefully jump into the cycle of fraud. Cooperstown recently lifting its Hall of Fame ban on Pete Rose and Kalshi sponsoring The Charlie Kirk Show signals exactly this. Remember Kalshi, which fittingly derives its name from the Arabic word for "everything,” is a federally regulated financial exchange. Up next: Labubu options.

As we stated on April 9, 2024, this capital converges on us and our children. We are the assets in one community under data which the cycle of fraud exploits. In April 27, 2023, we wrote: “Meanwhile it’s just improved technology. It’s just an acquisition. It’s just EBITDA. Blackrock, EctoLife, CRISPR, Kindbody, GV (formerly Google Ventures), RRE Ventures, Claritas Health Ventures, Rock Springs Capital, NFP Ventures, TQ Ventures. My body my choice? Not anymore. Children are being programmed to welcome the commodification of our very bodies – the last frontier of profit. We will own nothing – not even our own bodies, and be happy.”

Are You Not Entertained?

Understanding human data is key to AI resulted in the world’s youngest self-made billionaire for a reason. Sports distracts us from realizing Independent X School has replaced intellectualism and principles with the greed of data collection. Centering Independent X School around sports lets NAIS harness every ounce of our children – their name, image, likeness, talent, emotions, data, thoughts, and even their potential and energy, while we blindly cheer it on. Don’t forget Center for Early Education (CA) used wearable trackers during COVID. Wearables for sports and health (slyly backdoored through MAHA) will only increase until we are all just walking AI data factories. More reason NAIS Schools are turning everything into sports. While the brightest STEM students in America are assembling what amounts to Legos playing solitary soccer, China is starting mass production of the world’s first non-binary AI chip. Pumping Independent X School full of money for new field lights and score boards and pushing kids to get championships in lax and championships in volleyball and championships in basketball also allows an avenue for NAIS Schools to admit students who could not handle the academics without Challenge Success, “mastery learning,” and grading for equity, as Independent X Parents feign ignorance of DEI. It’s no shock Harvard College is launching remedial math courses for foundational algebra ­– something 10-year-olds can do. It’s telling they’re not doing this for musicians. NAIS Schools pushing hockey over Stravinsky and Shakespeare is all you need to know.

I Must Break You.

While you’re busy scanning yourself on your phone to put your AI avatar into live NBA games, the tech set are drawing the plays to effectuate a Curtis Yarvin dark enlightenment. This global Marxist community under the UN Sustainable Development Goals needs a surveillance complex to actualize. (Sidenote: How many times exactly will Jeffrey Sachs be on Tucker without a mention of his involvement in the UN SDG order?) As George Carlin observed through 19^th century pastoral baseball to 20^th century military industrial complex football, sports reveal our evolving American values and sociopolitical landscape. It holds that 21^st century singularity esports correlate with surveillance gathering predator drones flying over Dodger Stadium and tech heads, whose understanding of war amounts to World of Warcraft, being sworn in as high-ranking military officials. Our war games have advanced from technological military to militarized technology. Only now, unbeknownst to us, we are the enemy combatants, and our children are being trained at NAIS Schools to be the future ready, global gladiators. All the while, data is feasting. Perhaps it would take the energy of a united unhinged left and goy MAGA to scramble AI.

Pain Heals. Glory Lasts Forever.

We’re making headway, but there’s still more to go. From Francis Parker (IL) refusing to protect girls in sports and Latin School of Chicago (IL) insisting on going full force with DEI against federal law, NAIS Schools are as stubborn as MSM pushing narratives to compel regime change. Independent X Trustees should heed their fiduciary duties before they end up calling Trump daddy.

If You Can Dodge A Wrench, You Can Dodge A Ball

So let’s keep our eyes on the prize. Distractions abound, but the remedy remains the same. Sovereignty from foreign influence. Whether it’s international accreditation cartels like ICAISA or international intergovernmental organizations like the UN or international financial institutions like BIS or just international interlopers – maintain sovereignty.

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