On January 15, Joe Biden gave his farewell address to the country, in which he warned of an oligarchy taking place. This naturally generated much attention from the media. In an article she wrote for the Epoch Times, Emal Akin said the following:
“‘I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern,’ Biden said. ‘Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.’ Biden referred to Dwight Eisenhower’s iconic 1961 farewell address, where he warned the nation about the dangers of the ‘military-industrial complex.’ ‘The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist,’ Eisenhower said during his speech. ‘Six decades later, I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country,’ Biden said. ‘Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Errors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking.’ Biden recently expressed disapproval of Meta’s decision to do away with its current social media fact-checking program, calling it ‘really shameful.’ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg justified the decision last week in a video statement by saying that fact-checking has become ‘too politically biased,’ resulting in censorship and a loss of trust. He also warned of dangers of AI, saying that it’s crucial for people to govern this new technology. ‘As the land of liberty, America, not China, must lead the world in the development of AI,’ Biden said.”
As much of a joke as it is to claim that Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and in the very next sentence imply that it is because of social media giving up on fact-checking, Joe Biden’s warning of a “tech-industrial complex” is not without merit, as certain players in big tech/big business have seemingly allied themselves with Trump. Aside from ending “fact-checking,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos also made a $1 million donation of his own.
Due to the power that he holds both in the public and private sectors, the alliance of Zuckerberg and Bezos with Donald Trump is miniscule compared to that of Elon Musk. Besides being considered the world’s richest man, he owns many prominent companies, including SpaceX, Starlink, and Neuralink. He also recently started America PAC, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars helping to elect Donald Trump, and is the owner of the social media platform now known as X. It could be argued that Donald Trump may not have been able to win the 2024 election if Elon had not bought X, given the left-leaning censorship bias that the platform previously held.
Most recently, Musk was appointed by Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been tasked with auditing the federal government. DOGE’s actions are unprecedented in modern history, and as of March 3, 2019, DOGE has uncovered and estimated $115 billion in savings with much more to come. While the results of DOGE’s work are positive, it is necessary to be skeptical of Musk having such a prominent position in the government. One would have to wonder if his end goal is just a massive play for power.
While the threat of a technocratic New World Order forming through the merger of government and corporate power should be taken seriously, Joe Biden’s warnings of a coming “tech industrial complex” are themselves ironic, considering that Joe Biden himself has spoken in favor of a New World Order on several occasions. On April 12, 1992, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed written by Joe Biden in which he stated,
“But most Americans, myself included, reject 1930s-style isolationism. They expect to see the strong hand of American leadership in world affairs, and they know that economic retreat would yield nothing other than a lower standard of living. They understand further that many security threats—the spread of high-tech weapons, environmental degradation, overpopulation, narcotics trafficking, migration — require global solutions… Having contained Soviet communism until it dissolved, we need a new strategy of ‘containment’—based’, like NATO, on collective action, but directed against weapons proliferation… Rather than denigrating collective security, we should regularize the kind of multilateral response we assembled for the Gulf War. Why not breathe life into the U.N. Charter? Great postwar triumphs. For years, American leaders argued that building democracy in Europe and Asia would guarantee stability because democracies don’t start wars. Now the Pentagon says we must keep our military large enough to persuade Japan and Germany “not to aspire to a greater role even to protect their legitimate interests” … Fourth, collective security doesn’t rule out unilateral action. The Journal says I’m among those who want “Americans . . . to trust their security to a global committee.” But no one advocates that we repeal the “inherent” right of self-defense enshrined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter… Rather than denigrating collective security, we should regularize the kind of multilateral response we assembled for the Gulf War. Why not breathe life into the U.N. Charter? It envisages a permanent commitment of forces, for use by the Security Council. That means a presumption of collective action—but with a U.S. veto… Rather than defending military extravagance, the Bush administration should be reallocating Pentagon funds to meet more urgent security needs: sustaining democracy in the former Soviet empire; supporting U.N. peacekeepers in Yugoslavia, Cambodia and El Salvador; and rebuilding a weakened and debt-burdened America.”
Biden’s calls for a New World Order didn’t stop there. In 2013, Biden called for a New World Order while speaking to the 38th Annual Conference of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and again in March 2022 while speaking to the Business Roundtable’s CEO quarterly meeting, saying, “Now is the time when things are shifting and there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it. We’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.”
In Joe Biden’s article, twice he suggested breathing life into the U.N. Charter. This is significant given the U.N.’s prominent role in implementing a technocratic New World Order. In June 2019, the United Nations entered into a strategic partnership with the World Economic Forum called “The United Nations–World Economic Forum Strategic Partnership Framework for the 2030 Agenda.” In the fourth key focus area titled Digital Cooperation, it states, “Collaboration between the UN and the Forum to meet the needs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will seek to advance global analysis, dialogue and standards for digital governance and digital inclusiveness; and promote public-private partnerships to address global reskilling and lifelong learning for the future requirements for work and preparing the world’s 1.8 billion young people for this transition.”
Elon Musk, a 2008 participant in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program, claims to have had a change of heart as he has recently denounced certain leftist and globalist ideologies and allied himself with President Trump. This should be taken with a healthy amount of skepticism, as technocracy itself is apolitical, and it simply uses politics as a means to an end. After all, Musk’s grandfather, Dr. Joshua Haldeman, was the national leader in Canada for Technocracy Inc. in the 1930s and 1940s. Be it on the right or on the left, technocrats take steps to move the world closer to technocratic rule. Is Elon Musk simply playing the long game, grabbing power one step at a time, all the while getting people on the right to support a technocratic agenda that they don’t even realize is unfolding right in front of them?
*Nothing in this article is to be taken as being disparaging of Elon Musk, America PAC, or any other organization or person affiliated with Elon Musk.
Brandon is a freelance journalist based in the metro-Milwaukee area. He has worked full-time in politics for five years. This includes leading successful campaigns for legislatures at the state and congressional levels and successful deployments to get bills passed in Kentucky and Texas. In his spare time, he enjoys weightlifting, running, hiking, and listening to classic rock.