"Co-founded by Thiel and investor Auren Hoffman in 2006, Dialog is a highly private network for global leaders in technology, politics, business, and academia" -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...ecret-dialog-society-including-whos-involved/
Meetings like:
"It's Fun To Be In Charge" – The exact phrasing of the "power is fun" meeting you mentioned, exploring elite governance and control.
"Build-a-Party" – A session run by a former White House national security official focused on political organizing.
"Democracy Under Surveillance" – A look at intelligence, public tracking, and governance tech.
"Build-a-Cult" – The exact name of the cult session. It was reportedly moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com.
"Disinformation and Deep Fakes" – A panel examining information manipulation, which drew attendance from Hollywood figures like Sophia Bush.
"Navigating WWIII" – A session focusing on severe global conflict, reportedly attended by high-ranking active-duty military commanders and NATO leaders.
"Battlefield Technologies" – Discussions covering the future of automated warfare and defense contracting.
"Bring Back Nuclear" – A push toward contrarian, aggressive energy policies.
So the question seems to not understand human hierarchy, just an observation. People crave power and like minded people tent to come together on such subjects. The question ends more on how much power do they get and whom? And that answer seems to depend on your dependence on them, age, sex, race, religion, and geography. But this just seems to be a thread about discourse and it is just that.
Pretty broad, a lot of them are obscure to the public but I don't think they live in tunnels or have some top secret identities, they just keep a low profile and value privacy.
I think they are a wide range of stuff, bankers investors etc, the omnipresent shareholders etc.
I'm not a philosophical guy but it's human nature to have hierarchies, it's just how we function. I think most of the elites are pretty interchangeable and they aren't some high IQ puppetmasters on average (though I don't deny they do some nefarious things behind closed doors). There's always gonna be a certain collective at the top.
This guy seems to get it, it's just nature. Big ape want big banana pile, little ape seethe. so many such cases...