Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, a data scientist who has previously worked at M.I.T., among other institutes of repute, prefers the term “Swarm” as a descriptor for Washington, D.C., in lieu of the Trump-popularized “Swamp.”
Here’s the meat of what Ayyadurai conceptualizes the “swarm,” and why he uses it to refer to the Swamp, or the Deep State, or The Blob, or any of a number of terms to reference the labyrinthine permanent bureaucracy and the various institutions it entangles itself with:
The swarm is not any one individual, not any one organization, but it’s [an] interconnected — you could call it telepathically interconnected — set of people with similar and sometimes slightly dissimilar interests. So the swarm is not unified. That’s why they will one day will kill a president... Because they’re organized criminals, fundamentally, each having their own little fiefdoms. And if you watch a swarm of birds, they’re not exactly always moving in the right direction. But, collectively, they sort of work out their differences and they move in a particular direction. You can see this if you watch a flock of birds. It’s called swarm intelligence…
It’s an interconnected group of people… All systems ultimately seek their own kind of structure… There are certain fundamental systems principles…
It's about maximizing power, profit, and control.
By “killing a president,” presumably, Ayyadurai is referring to the 1963 assassination of JFK.
Wikipedia, the CIA´s repository of all corporate state propaganda, smears in his bio Ayyadurai as an ¨anti-vaccine activist” and claims “he has become known for promoting conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and unfounded medical claims,” so you can be sure he’s onto something true.
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The Swarm, Ayyadurai explains, includes such factions as:
- The upper echelons of academia (university presidents, administrators, etc.)
- Multinational bankers
- Hollywood producers
- Politician “front people” (including controlled opposition like Bernie Sanders)
This loosely integrated network of actors functions on what is described in psychological literature as “groupthink,” a clinical term with a specific meaning, defined here via Psychology Today:
Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of well-intentioned people makes irrational or non-optimal decisions spurred by the urge to conform or the belief that dissent is impossible. The problematic or premature consensus that is characteristic of groupthink may be fueled by a particular agenda—or it may be due to group members valuing harmony and coherence above critical thought.
The only quibble I would have with the Psychology Today folks is the “well-intentioned people” qualifier, which I would dispute.
It’s this sophisticated level of understanding that the corporate state cannot grapple with, and so it instead dispatches its smear merchants like Wikipedia to libel anyone who offers such explanatory mechanisms for how and why states function they way that they do as “conspiracy theorists.”
Per Ayyadurai’s framework, there doesn’t need to be a conspiracy in the sense of mustached figures meeting in smoke-filled backrooms over brandy and plotting their world takeover. Their interests converge and are mutually understood by all parties involved, with the occasional squabble (the birds not moving in perfect uniformity in the “swarm” analogy) that results in things like JKF getting his head blown off by the CIA, possibly in collusion with the mob and certain elements of the Castro regime.
The people who run the government at the very top are all criminals. There are no exceptions to this rule; if they were honest people, they never would have made it so far up the ladder without incurring (possibly fatal, but certainly economic and social) consequences for their integrity.
