We as humans allowing this shit to go down is crazy to me.
The problem is the top is captured and has been for a very long time. The difference now is it’s mask-off and has lost the capacity to pretend to be public serving.
As the history of labor has shown us, it is very hard to organize bottom-up without leadership getting compromised or killed.
Before it was kings and queens. Haves have been shitting on have nots since the beginning of time. Our system doesn’t work.
A silver lining is that balkanizing into technostates means that reform should be easier on a small scale than it is in a gigantic country.
Edit: maybe there is no silver lining since North Korea has not made much progress on the humanitarian front. I wish we had something to lool forward to though.
Cuba has made some inroads into mutualistic society. It’s the primary reason the US has sanctioned it so long and now is thinking about colonizing.
Quick timeline…
- 2022: ChatGPT launches, and presumably, AI companies would have already been forecasting as to their energy needs over the next 5-10 years
- 2024-2025: AI companies pour money and support into DJT leaving many of us perplexed given Silicon Valley’s history of being left-leaning.
- 2025: DJT takes office, promptly eviscerates EPA and regulators rit large
- 2026: Data centers run amok
Guess we now know why…
2024-2025: AI companies pour money and support into DJT leaving many of us perplexed given Silicon Valley’s history of being left-leaning.
Curtis Yarvin has been writing about his ideas since at least 2009, when I first heard of him and his “Dark Enlightement.” He’s the “philsophical” underpinning of Silicon Valley’s actual values and it was clear long, long before 2024.
He has the ear of people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and more.
From Wikipedia:
Yarvin’s ideas were influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and prominent investors like Thiel have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Journalist Jason Wilson noted that Yarvin had “a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration”. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken in approval of Yarvin. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance also praised Yarvin in 2021, and said, drawing from his 2012 “Retire All Government Employees” talk, that “what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
Also a leak of info about Thiel’s secretive “Dialog” group included:
Elon Musk ($1.3 trillion)
Eric Schmidt ($40.1 billion)
Henry Kravis ($12.2 billion)
Marcos Galperin ($6.8 billion)
Mike Cannon-Brookes ($7.7 billion)
Scott Cook ($4.4 billion)
Barry Sternlicht ($3.1 billion)
Nicolas Berggruen ($2.9 billion)
John Arnold ($2.8 billion)
Joe Lonsdale ($2.8 billion)
Reid Hoffman ($2.7 billion)Eric Schmidt from Google, Reid Hoffman of Netflix. The idea that Yarvin’s ideas don’t come up or aren’t obliquely pushed at these events seems deeply unlikely.
Yes i’ve delved into this a bit since i heard of it, it is as if these people read science fiction and completely missed the points. Or, and more likely, they are evil, know they are evil, and thus like being the villain. These idiotic ideas were always doomed to fail. I know we are still knee-deep in fascism in the US but it is pretty clear Donald Trump’s total and complete fascist takeover was always doomed to fail spectacularly. The idea that they could actually carry this out just shows these tech elites are living in such utter isolated delusional bubbles that they actually think they could pull this off.
This is why journalism is so important. We need to know what these people are doing. Keep your eye on your enemy.
