On Dean Radin and creating a hive mind through genetic engineering:
Alex says:
'But where does he [Dean Radin] come to at the end? He goes, Hey, uh, I, you know, genetic modification in order to get us towards a hive mind like bees, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
Mm-hmm . And I played that and I was like, Dean, Dean, what are you saying? How, you know, but. So the point is whether you agree with Dean or whether you don’t agree with Dean. And I don’t agree with Dean for a lot of other reasons... what, what we’re to make of this from a spiritual level, I think has to come into play.
But the point is: super smart guy, super plugged in guy, he’s gotten millions and probably hundreds of millions of dollars behind him for this latest startup that he’s doing that will actually operationalize genetic engineering through the jab -- through a different jab, but a jab that will make you more psychic that will give you a hive mind.'
Interesting that Plato also came to the same idea that a hive society was the best form of society. It's said explicitly in one of his dialogues, but the internet has become so inefficient for searching these days that I'll just post this from Plato's Republic:
'May we not fairly say to our philosopher,—Friend, we do you no wrong; for in other States philosophy grows wild, and a wild plant owes nothing to the gardener, but you have been trained by us to be the rulers and kings of our hive, and therefore we must insist on your descending into the den. You must, each of you, take your turn, and become able to use your eyes in the dark'...
'Being self-taught, they cannot be expected to show any gratitude for a culture which they have never received. But we have brought you into the world to be rulers of the hive, kings of yourselves and of the other citizens, and have educated you far better and more perfectly than they have been educated, and you are better able to share in the double duty. Wherefore each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark.'