"Intellectual Dark Web"

"Intellectual Dark Web"
Abbreviation	IDW
Formation	2017
Founder	•  Bari Weiss? •  Eric Weinstein?
Membership	•  Ayaan Hirsi Ali •  David Brooks •  Jonathan Haidt •  Sam Harris •  Maajid Nawaz •  Candace Owens •  Jordan Peterson •  Steven Pinker •  Joe Rogan •  Dave Rubin •  Ben Shapiro •  Douglas Murray •  Debra Soh •  Christina Hoff Sommers •  Andrew Sullivan •  Bret Weinstein •  Eric Weinstein
A group of intellectuals promoted with money and/or visibility by the deep state to act as a more credible alternative to the too obvious shills in legacy corporate media.

The "intellectual dark web" (IDW) is a term coined by Eric Weinstein and Bari Weiss for a loose affiliation of academics and social commentators who oppose the perceived influence of left wing–associated identity politics and political correctness in higher education and mass media.

Own words

The first recorded usage of the term was on a 2017 episode of Sam Harris's podcast, when Eric Weinstein used it to refer to a group of thinkers, including Weinstein and Harris, who used digital media to offer alternatives to mainstream media narratives. This occurred after Weinstein's brother, biologist Bret Weinstein, resigned in 2017 from his position as professor of biology at the Evergreen State College in what in hindsight looks like a somewhat staged^{[Says who?]} event.

Problems with term

Eric Weinstein is manager of the main equity fund of PayPal mafia billionaire Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir, with extensive ties to DOD and intelligence agencies. The group is promoted with money and/or visibility by the deep state to act as a more credible alternative to the too obvious shills in legacy corporate media. The demonisation of the group by corporate media only serves to give them further credibility.

"Mainstream alternative media"

David Icke coined the term "Mainstream alternative media" (MAM). Icke analyzed that that the billionaire Elon Musk is creating a cross-promotional network of journalists designed to direct and control "alternative media", and to lure especially "conservatives" into a dead end:

You are being had, people, but most will never get that. They only see what is in front of their eyes, not what is weaved through what they think they see. The decision was made a long time ago and the Tucker Carlson interview with Alex Jones was just the calculated prelude to it. The interview was the setup for what was long planned. Musk could have simply done this long ago, but the ritual had to be played out to both eulogize Musk, the new MAM God, and to put Alex Jones center stage as a symbol of the Mainstream Alternative Media alongside Musk, Carlson, Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, and all the rest. REAL alternative media that has no 'here and no further' is thus marginalized by comparison, as planned, but we are still here and still pursuing the depths of truth where the MAMMIES refuse to go.

 

Known members

10 of the 17 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Ayaan Hirsi Ali	A "neocon pet project"
Douglas Murray	A neocon "terror expert"
Maajid Nawaaz	British activist; former Islamist. Critical of the ON around COVID.
Candace Owens	US political commentator
Jordan Peterson	Canadian psychologist, author, media commentator and member of the "intellectual dark web"
Steven Pinker	Canadian psychologist who flew the Lolita Express
Joe Rogan	Host of the world's most popular podcast. He frequently dissents from the Official narrative.
Dave Rubin	An American political commentator. A critic of Big Tech.
Ben Shapiro	"Alt right" media personality that somehow is not censored and instead "shadow-boosted" by social media corporations like Facebook and Twitter.
Bret Weinstein

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