Michael Caputo just revealed the moment when he realized Fauci didn’t care about the damage that lockdowns would do to Americans’ mental health. “Nobody cared.” “What they cared about was getting a product in the arms of the American people.” It came down to a moment in 2020 when he pushed HHS officials to tackle the crisis of despair. “The President created a pot of money for public service announcements and public education.” “I think the CDC and others were seeing that as their money to convince people to follow a mandate, which was never going to happen.” “There was never going to be a mandate under Trump.” “I went in and I pitched the idea… that the real problem here was despair.” “The American people, the polling was showing that they were far more mentally ill with despair than they were with Covid.” “I wanted to work very closely with the White House Office of Faith to get faith leaders to do podcasts with people like Tony Fauci to actually get people out of despair.” “Tony disparaged that.” “All the careers disparaged that.” “Nobody thought about the downside of the lockdowns.” “Nobody really thought about the mental health of the children that were cut off from education and friends.” @jeffreytucker @MichaelRCaputo

Pope Leo compared the rise of AI to the story of the Tower of Babel. This famous story of “human arrogance and pride” is more relevant than ever. Rev. Robert Sirico just broke down how AI and transhumanism are threatening the very idea of what it means to be human: The story of the Tower of Babel is “represented in the Book of Genesis as this story of human arrogance and pride.” “It was their arrogance that they thought on their own they could achieve divinity.” “And that’s what at least some people see to be the case with AI.” “The whole notion of transhumanism, that somehow you can embed yourself in the machine,” is putting humanity on a dangerous trajectory, Rev. Sirico warned. Suffering and limitation are integral to the human experience. Yet transhumanism is based upon an assumption that “all weakness needs to be eliminated by a technological algorithm“.” The clear and present danger here, he warned, is that this is a trajectory in which humanity is setting itself up to be dominated and overtaken by machines. @jeffreytucker @robertsirico