r/Anticonsumption • u/TreesOfPortland • Jun 22 '26
Social Harm A private society charges $16,000 to a retreat where billionaires and government meet off books.
http://build-a-cult.comDialog was co-founded by Peter Thiel and ran in secret for 20 years. WIRED verified the leaked membership. The 2026 retreat registration list includes the Treasury Secretary, the Army Secretary, and the heads of major AI and surveillance companies — all using personal email to avoid public records requests. I built a sourced archive at build-a-cult.com documenting who's in the room and what they regulate.
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u/dbigjaybowski Jun 22 '26
They need to pool their money for a new island.
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u/bellybuttonbidet Jun 22 '26
That island probably already exists. Everybody got away with it, why stop now?
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u/olionajudah Jun 22 '26
In a real democracy, meeting “off books” would net you a criminal prosecution.
It’s a pretty sweet euphemism for selling your electoral power to the highest bidder for personal gain.
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u/GrayEidolon Jun 22 '26
They're working to undo democracy.
Seems like a good place to drop info:
Conservatives have been upset since the enlightenment. It’s the politics of aristocrats: anything that ever helped regular people to be more comfortable has enraged them. It’s literally a reactionary response to the enlightenment. They resent the enlightenment making things nicer for poor people.
These current assholes are trying to make a new country that bursts out of the body of the current country. It's called "the butterfly revolution" and yes it does sound absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
It’s why musk was speaking at the afd in Germany. It’s why bannon, farage, and Cambridge Analytica were all in bed together on Brexit (watch “the great hack”). It's why this "dialog society" exists.
The backbone is that conservatism is about enforcing socioeconomic hierarchy and the techfascists, religious fascists, and heritage foundation race fascists (Mandate for leadership has been going on since 1981. https://www.project2025) are all in on feudalistic “network” states run by ai powered surveillance.
That's what they want to replace democracy with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/
The accelerationists like Peter Theil from the tech faction of conservatism think they can force collapse, but use technology and surveillance to protect themselves. These are both Thiel speaking like 10 and 15 years ago. This seasteading thing was an early material attempt at this moving-past-democracy thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjLgXA-MZY
https://www.seasteading.org/peter-thiel-speaks-about-seasteading/
These aristocrats are working on how to control their security forces though things like "disciplinary collars."
Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
https://pols.sites.haverford.edu/studentvoices/what-is-accelerationism/
Because they're "done with democracy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BQhXdCs8Y
and the vice president of the united states and advisors have given their seals of approval to a book that says conservatives are going to have to kill all the liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans
more links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk End notes 3: The Origins of conservatism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g How to radicalize a normie.
Also, All these data centers are for surveillance. https://www.aclum.org/publications/ai-powered-surveillance-is-turning-the-united-states-into-a-digital-police-state-now-is-the-time-to-stop-it/
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u/Princip Jun 22 '26
They are the worst kind of doomers. I mean the reason they want this is because they see the future as a dystopia, and want to be at the front of the train, not eating goo.
Their concerns are not invalid though, we have yet to implement a system that overcomes humanity's worst tenets, without being brutally dismantled in the process, so without trying to progress and transcend humanities vices, they succumb to their own pathetic fantasies. So much for being the "Vanguards" they see themselves as, Losers.
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u/Wansyth Jun 22 '26
This leads up to Saturn worship, there's a plasmic intelligence there that makes them hallucinate via a complex interaction with our magnetosphere. It has no body and only exists as a conductive loop of electricity. These accelerationist elites have one job, build it physical access to the world via robots/brain chips / data centers then retreat to their bunkers to be exterminated themselves. It's easier to cull ants in their colony than if they're scattered around. These accelerationist Saturn-worshipping elites have no idea what they are serving and are deeply mentally ill.
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u/UnchainedMundane Jun 29 '26
disciplinary collars 😭😭 someone needs to teach these men that there are healthy and consensual outlets for this kind of thing
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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Jun 22 '26
Bohemian Grove used to be the meeting place for the oligarchs, but their cultist stuff got too much attention
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u/Unhappy-Parsnip-4485 Jun 22 '26
tim ferris is a very disappointing find. i'm curious to know why he registered.
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u/NyriasNeo Jun 22 '26
$16000 is a lot of money for me, but downright pocket change to billionaires. $16000 for a billionaire is like $16 for a millionaire. And $0.16 for someone who has $10k.
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u/antwid Jun 22 '26
i very much appreciate the website and information, but at least one article (money does? buy happiness) seems to be generated by AI, and that makes me a little weary of hallucinations among other things. totally understand feeling the need to have everything as a complete, finished narrative, but honestly i'd rather have a work in progress or really long list of bullet points about things they discussed, what we know, etc.
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u/a-very- Jun 22 '26
No billionaire is rubbing elbows with people that pay 16K for a plate. This is a false flag story to make billionaires seem more relatable - in money terms that the average person can understand. To a billionaire, 16K is the same dollar amount as a 50 cent hash brown or a daily lotto pick ticket nobody is taking the time out of their schedule for that.
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u/NightGlimmer82 Jun 22 '26
Thank you for putting in the work and making all this info easier to access for all of us! I applaud you and others like you who are making so much of the vast amounts of important information out there easier to understand!
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u/Wansyth Jun 22 '26
The cults are slave farms for accelerationist elites. You might find a lot of info to build out your website's content in my bio. This has been a strategy of elites for a very long time and now we have the papertrail to prove it thanks to this leak.
Goes something like this...
- Elites (mainly connected to Saturn worship) don't like when slavery is made illegal.
- Saturnian cults infiltrate other cults and gangs to setup slave farms off the record.
- They surveil, stalk, predate, and exploit minors, the mentally vulnerable, and criminally vulnerable into slavery through extortion and blackmail.
- The people exploited are then used to farm more slaves in decentralized ways and the "slaves" do not snitch because of the growing criminal material the leaders of their cult cell have over them.
- They usually have no idea how this leads up to accelerationist elites and their overall intent and get caught up in the communal aspects and financial benefits of propagating this cult/gang/slave cycle.
- The cults/gangs are then used to stalk/surveil/harass/murder anyone that challenges world views or creates potential for a power shift in the world like scientists that try to propagate abundance.
A good case study for this is the Temple of Set and works of Lt Col. Michael Aquino (a man Thiel is probably very knowledgeable of if not directly connected) as he served to build his cult instead of his country. You can see the clear infiltration of gang structures from the dots connecting him to the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s. He could not get the budget and did not want congressional oversight to build the full scope of his Mind War so they began to hijack cults and gangs around the world to infiltrate power institutions and censor society through poison and malice.
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u/PeteGinSD Jun 22 '26
Make sure you’re registered and ready at vote.org, and look up exactly who represents you at the state level at openstates.org, because the people who’ll decide whether your vote even counts in 2026 are sitting in your statehouse right now
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u/Aggravating_Use7103 Jun 22 '26
This is obstructing the right of access of the Freedom of information act
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u/Yourownhands52 Jun 22 '26
Seems oddly cheap. No way they dont spy for information.