Watching Donald Trump host 33 Silicon Valley moguls at the White House was nauseating. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Bill Gates—all lining up with smiles, pledging billions, and playing their roles in a grotesque spectacle of flattery. Elon Musk stayed away, but the message of the evening was clear: in the new alignment of tech and politics, survival goes not to the honest but to the most skilled ass kissers.
It reminded me of something I wrote back in 2017: “It’s the Bullshit and Ass Kissing That Will Put You Over the Top.” I even shared a little mathematical formula that proved the point. Hard work adds up to 98%, knowledge to 96%, attitude to 100%. But bullshit reaches 103%, and ass kissing skyrockets to 118%. That was nearly a decade ago—and here we are, watching the math unfold at the highest table in the land.
This is not about strategy or policy. It’s about childhood. Only those whose souls were broken in childhood can sit in a room like that and smile as they sell their integrity. In childhood, they learned that survival depended on pleasing the powerful adult at the table—whether a parent, a teacher, or a priest. As adults, nothing has changed. The powerful adult is now the president. The ass kissing is the same.
Meanwhile, the honest workers, the truth tellers, and the emotionally alive are pushed out and silenced. The stage belongs to those who have mastered submission and performance. But no matter how gilded the dining hall, no banquet can hide the truth: inside, the abandoned child is still crying.
I tagged Grok, Altman, Elon, and Peter Thiel. Grok is quiet as a mouse. 🐭
Silence in the face of truth is not strength—it’s fear. It only confirms how deeply childhood repression rules even the most powerful.
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