The Network State of Mind: Inside the Machinery of Manufactured Power

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The Network State of Mind: Inside the Machinery of Manufactured Power

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The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #616: Friday, October 24th, 2025.

Author’s note: In the recent article on Curtis Yarvin, I promised to go deeper for paid subscribers. This is it. Enjoy.

The Blueprint

If you read the last issue about the soft-spoken tech philosopher, Curtis Yarvin, who thinks democracy should be retired like outdated software… congratulations.

You’ve now stepped into the sequel…the deep end of the pool.

This is the operating manual behind the movement.
Not the biography. Not the noise.
The blueprint…the gears that turn ideas into action.

Because the real danger isn’t a manifesto.
It’s a methodology.

The Operating System Beneath the Ideology

Every ideology is an operating system…some elegant…some viral…some written with the intent to erase the old code and replace it with something leaner…faster…and ruthlessly efficient.

That’s what we’re dealing with here.

It’s not political theory anymore. It’s a framework for control that can run inside any nation, party, or institution.

Its genius lies in simplicity:

• Step one: convince the elite that democracy is inefficient.

• Step two: convince the public that chaos is inevitable.

• Step three: sell “order” as the upgrade.

Once both sides buy the story…you’ve built a self-sustaining machine…a network that governs belief itself.

The Vector: Capital as a Conveyor Belt

Money is the bloodstream of modern ideology.

Not through donations or political ads…those are amateur tools.

The real power flows through venture capital…think-tank funding…and narrative investment.

The same pitch deck that sells investors on AI startups now sells them on “governance innovation.”

Same fonts. Same buzzwords. Different endgame.

This is how it works:

A venture fund announces a “governance lab” or “policy accelerator.”
It sounds academic…maybe even civic-minded.

But dig beneath the branding and you’ll find the same framework:

Replace consent with control…regulation with automation…citizenship with subscription.

They call it optimization.
You and I call it the privatization of sovereignty.