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I was reading the reviews of movie by Steven Spielberg called Disclosure Day and the reviews are crazy. Critics are calling it the Spielberg's best film in 20 years. They're describing it as, "I love this one, The X-Files meets the Bible." One reviewer said, "Emily Blunt gives the performance of her career." Another person said, "This is John Williams best score perhaps ever." Another said, "The movie left him emotional and shaken, and it is a story that centers around the discovery that humanity may not be alone."
Okay, it's a summer blockbuster for Steven Spielberg again. And normally, that's where I would lead it, leave it, but it's perhaps not just that. Okay? It could be it could be softening. Here's let me just give you this. Spielberg is not just a movie director. Spielberg has built half of the pictures that live inside of our house, inside of our head. How we view ourselves, how we view our past, how we view our culture, a lot of it comes from Steven Spielberg. When you think of aliens, a lot of people will picture ET or Close Encounters. You think of going to the beach in the summer, you will think of Jaws. You think of sharks, dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, The Future, Minority Report, Artificial Intelligence, AI, all of this stuff, World Ending Panic, War of the Worlds. Okay, he has created all of these things.
Steven Spielberg has spent over 50 years shaping how America imagines fear and wonder and technology and government and the unknown. He is the chief storyteller of the modern age. So when Spielberg retires and then suddenly returns for a movie called Disclosure Day, right as Washington is openly discussing UFOs and nonhuman intelligence, people begin asking questions. And this is normal. Okay, wait a minute. Is this something bigger? I want to make it really clear. I'm excited for the movie because I think it's going to be a great blockbuster. I don't think Stephen Spielberg is secretly working with aliens. I don't think the government is is littered with aliens and uh and lizard people, although you could make a pretty strong case just by based on their behavior. And if aliens had traveled all across galaxies only to land in Los Angeles first, those aliens deserve what happens to them.
Here's what I am saying. Governments have always worked with storytellers to shape public opinion. Always. This is not new. Kings did it. Churches uh did it. Governments did it. Hollywood just perfected it because stories move people faster than facts. That's why the Pentagon has worked with Hollywood for decades. You want fighter jets in your movies? Great. Aircraft carriers. military advisers. Government gets input on the script. That's public record. During World War II, Hollywood openly produced propaganda films for the US government. In fact, um the Disney studios, Walt said that one mo one morning he walked in only to find that his entire Walt Disney Studios had been populated with the US government and the military. And all of a sudden, he was done making the mil movies he wanted to make. But this isn't just old-timey history. Obama's White House worked with television writers during Obamacare to weave healthc care messaging into popular shows. Okay? They admitted publicly. They admitted it. That's propaganda from the government. Why? Because for some reason we trust fictional characters more than we trust politicians. It's sad, but it's true.
Let me take you to Bill Clinton. He understood this. Do you remember that uh famous speech where he's like, "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky." That whole thing when that was going down, he brought in top entertainment advisers to help shape public appearances and public emotion. And that particular statement, Spielberg, is is the name that was been floating around those stories for years. I don't I can't verify that. I don't know if that's true. But top producers and and storytellers out of Hollywood helped craft that and I believe Spielberg was one of them. Okay. Okay. That's sad again. But the point is bigger than one meaning or one rumor.
Now, all of this may be a coincidence. And Spielberg, who is, you know, as a storyteller, is really good at reading the room. That that's what storytellers have to be good at. Who's my audience? What is my audience feeling? He might have just read the room. Okay. He might have just seen, oh, everybody's paranoid about all of this stuff. Or someone else did this. They're paranoid about invasion. They're paranoid about science. They're paranoid about all of this. Let me do War of the Worlds. Maybe this is his kind of War of the Worlds. He's reading the room. So, I don't want to get into the is he working for the government right now to prepare us for I don't know. Nobody does.
Here's something I think is more interesting and more important than Spielberg working with the Pentagon or the CIA or aliens. I believe this movie and Stephen Spielberg may actually represent the end of a human era. Okay? You're not going to need Stephen Spielberg anymore. Really soon. Okay? And I don't mean in Hollywood, although that's true, too. I mean, as government, power centers, advertisers, anyone else that's trying to get you to buy something, act a certain way, believe something, just come over to their side of thinking. Wear the mask, don't wear the mask, whatever it is, you don't need Hollywood or a Spielberg anymore because you now have the algorithm. That sounds crazy, but I want you to stop and think about your own life. Who's with you all the time? All the time. Who's with you in bed? Who's with you at the supermarket? Who's with you in the car? Who is with you on the toilet? Your phone. And your phone studies you all the time. What makes you angry? What makes you laugh? What scares you? What keeps you watching? What kind of voice do you trust? What headlines make your pulse jump? It tracks all of it. Now combine that with AI. Suddenly persuasion. I don't need Steven Spielberg. I have something much more powerful than Steven Spielberg and John Williams. The old system of broadcasting one message like I'm doing right now to millions of people. This is over. The new system builds millions of custom messages for individual people. That's a gigantic shift. Probably the biggest shift in in culture, propaganda, in thinking. And perhaps you may begin to understand or see this in a new light when you hear me say we are at a time where we are facing the death of free will. I have said that over and over again for a few years, maybe 10 years. I said we are going to approach a time where we will see the death of free will. We're in it right now. The death of free will. What does that mean? What that means is what you did today, what you think, what you're passionate about, what you're arguing with people about. Did you make that decision yourself? Did you come to those conclusions because you thought it out that you had this idea? Or is it just what you've consumed? Or worse yet, did the algorithm quietly shape you in millions of small ways? So you choose that action, you choose that course, you choose that belief, all the while thinking, "Yeah, I made that choice myself." Death of free will.
Imagine two neighbors living next door to each other. Okay? One fears government control, the other one fears chaos and instability. The machine is not going to feed them the same news. The algorithm is going to feed them a completely different set of emotional reality. One gets stories about hidden corruption, UFO disclosures, and secret programs. The other gets stories about safety and experts and the dangers of misinformation. Both people become more emotionally certain and hardened. Both believe they discovered that truth on their own. But the machine has studied them and is feeding that to them like lab rats. Quietly, consistently, automatically feeding. That's what makes this moment different from anything else in history. Human human propagandists, they have been manipulating crowds for a very long time. But AI manipulates individuals personally, one by one. And unlike people or governments, the machine never sleeps. It runs billions of tiny emotional experiments every single day. AB, let's send out this A and send out this to B and we'll see which one tracks. You're being abded all day long. This image worked with this person. Remember that this phrase, this phrase increased their fear. Remember that this music created trust. Remember that this story kept them engaged longer. Remember that. Most people think they're using the algorithm. They're not using the al the algorithm is using you.
And maybe this is why Spielberg's movie is landing at exactly the right moment because beneath all of the US UFO or UAP fascination now sits the biggest question humans have ever asked and an entirely different question or asked at least with entirely new meaning. And this is the question. What is real? Seriously, what's real anymore? Is that video real? Because it can be faked. Is that his voice or is that a clone? Images can be generated, outrage, manufactured. Entire realities are going to be personalized for every human being alive. that falls into the hands of the wrong people that want to convince a group of people to do one thing or another. It's done overnight. Spielberg comes from the last age of shared imagination. One movie, one theater, one national conversation. AI is destroying that world. Every day you get your own personal movie. You get your own fear reflected back to you, your own truth reflected back, your own reality stream. Maybe the real disclosure day has nothing to do with aliens at all. Maybe the real disclosure is this. Something is learning how to program you and all humans one person at a time. And quite honestly, that scares me much, much more than any flying saucer.