Eventually, there was a coup. The way Elon Musk took over national power in the United States may be referred to as “the hostile takeover of the state”. Musk operates outside the democratic mandate, frequently outside the law, outside the procedures of constitutional division of power. Here we have a man whose wealth exceeds the GDP of 140 countries in total, and who with 1 swing of his hand eliminates programs that save tens of thousands of children from premature death.
Of course, it is hard to blame the world’s autocrats active in their own oligarchy for enjoying this technofeudical revolution. Let's skip the silence for now, that any confused “leftists” are rooting for her. What is surprising, however, is the enthusiastic applause of national conservatives from all over Europe. Apparently, they have not yet understood what has already dawned on 1 of the first MEGA architects, Steve Bannon.
In the meantime, the second declared war on American technoligarchy, in an ostentatious way taking over much of the power in the US. Her mission is not only contrary to the conservatism and the concept of the nation as such, but besides far beyond the mundane agenda of the minimum state. In fact, it's much more dystopian.
Live shock and horror strategy
Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris with a score of 49.97 to 48.36%, a difference of 1.61%, gaining 2.3 million more out of 156.3 million votes cast. This is not how a strong national mandate and cultural revolution looks. Never mind, in politics since time immemorial it is not the nonsubjective reality that determines it, but the "intersubjective" reality (term coined by Yuval Harari). The reality that applies due to the fact that we agreed together.
Thanks to this master of the political pump, present the already happy tenant of the White home and the algorithms working for it managed to make an image of a fearless public bleacher. And perfectly prepare the ground for the presidency with the usage of the “shock and fear” strategy.
Shock and panic in a literal sense, due to the fact that that is what has become part of persistent American allies internationally, hundreds of thousands of national officials and hundreds of thousands of people, especially in developing countries that are either dependent on American humanitarian aid. Shock and horror were experienced by analysts who rightly predicted that another powers would enter wherever the U.S. would withdraw. They were besides experienced by doctors and patients addicted to medical statistics, which abruptly ceased to be available.
The elements of force from a bloody attack on Capitol 4 years ago were relegated into pardoned heroes, while the 3 high-ranking government officials in U.S. abroad services lost government protection due to their disloyalty to Donald Trump, although due to their merit towards his erstwhile administration they were blacklisted by an enemy Iranian regime.
It's hard to see the shadow of a average American or an American's interests in this confusion. Cleanses on the board of the National Staff Relations Council (National labour Relations Board) give freedom to corporations which can now freely violate labour law and torpedo trade union efforts in the fight for better conditions in establishments. For example, in Jeff Bezos' full food supermarket network.
The consequences of Trump's obsession with customs war will besides be felt primarily by average low-income Americans who will be affected by increases, which will translate into a fall in their life rate. But, well, it does. There is no uncertainty that at the minute successes are celebrated by national conservatism or, as anyone prefers, native populism. After decades of cultural dominance of liberalism, besides frequently steeped in hypocrisy and pride, there is no wonder. The political pendulum rule works.
The unquestionable failure of the left and centre-left must be considered to be that after the financial crisis between 2008 and 2009 and the rescue of the weak financial system, by utilizing taxpayers' pockets as part of "socialism for millionaires" (as a result, zero bankers went to jail and millions of average homeowners had to declare a individual bankruptcy), the left did not usage the fruits of the protests of the 99% movement and Occupy Wall Street, but returned to the pro-market recipes of the 1990s.
Worse still, in an unforgivable way, she ignored the increasing anger on the streets, and the monopoly on protests against the defective strategy left the Tea Party, the alt-right and the fresh right. These, in turn, gave this anger towards the strategy an cultural charge and sparked racist sentiments. Thus they diverted the anger of the people from the actual, main culprits of today's marazmu, or oligarchy and their political minions, to your LGBT neighbor, during covid time, to scientists and doctors, after the energy crisis – to climate activists, all the time – to liberal non-governmental organizations, mainstream media, and erstwhile it was not even adequate – for specified "evergreens" as Roma or migrants.
Of course, the helplessness of the migration crisis has been and is inactive the ultracatalyst of the emergence of the extremist right in the US and Europe. It is hard to wonder that in times of deepening economical concerns of the lower and mediate class, in times of inflation and safety fears (whether artificially induced or real) related to illegal immigration, people search rescue, putting advanced walls at the borders and looking at national defenders. Meanwhile, they do not offer any real solutions to everyday problems of average people.
Silicon Valley discovers freedom of speech
It was during the period of financial crisis, at the turn of the first and yet in the second decade of the 21st century, erstwhile the Obama-led Democrats, possibly wishing to strengthen American technological dominance in online space and what is natural, to strengthen their political power, allowed the then technological avant-garde of the Silicon Valley (which the full planet looked at as apostles of advancement at the time) to grow into a global technological oligarchy with unprecedented influence on humanity.
Later there was brexit, Trump 2016, Cambridge Analytics, Russian bots from Petersburg, the genocide in Myanmar, to which Facebook has documentedly contributed, was an increase in the pathological impact of social social media, depression, and even suicide among youth.
The moods were definitely broken erstwhile parents with portraits of their children, tragic victims of social media, confronted their bosses in US legislature halls as prosecutors. The already apparent collapse of democratic discourse and the ever-increasing warnings from academics against the possible disastrous consequences of an uncontrolled race in the improvement of artificial intelligence have led the Joe Biden administration to a fundamental change of approach.
Technological giants abruptly began experiencing previously unknown adversities. Initially, it was a increasing criticism from expert communities and public opinion, and yet they felt the standard, regulatory power. This was manifested, for example, in the form of a bill designed to defend children online or in the form of tens of complaints by US Justice Ministers against the largest social networks.
Despite millions of dollars received in donations, Democrats could no longer treat oligarchs with ambition to regulation the country and the planet as pioneering start-ups. They thus forced them to regroup at the right time and decision to the second camp. Ideologists of technoligarchy like Marc Andreessen may effort to camouflage this with threats from Cancel culture and anti-capitalistic youth woke, but it is known that this is all about fighting for power and money. And in that order. The goal is no less, no more absolute, like unlimited power over technological progress, and thus over humanity.
Unlimited by regulation, the improvement of artificial intelligence technology and the least limited collection of immense amounts of data (our individual data that are a prerequisite for this development): this is the basic request presently made towards politicians by technoligarchia. Strong force from the US government on the EU is expected in this area. According to the expanding number of specialists, the unregulated improvement of artificial intelligence poses a terrible hazard to mankind. If artificial intelligence gets out of control, the consequences will be hard to imagine.
The objectives and interests of the Silicon Valley technology captains are understandable. However, it would be worth naming them by name and halt hiding them behind noble motives. Statements of Mark Zuckerberg's abrupt enlightenment and his love of freedom of speech (to be certain 2 weeks before Trump's presidency) are as credible as Elon Musk's akin statements, which alters the algorithms of his X network to guarantee the top degree of his own posts.
Neither national nor conservative
Interestingly, national conservatives from all over the world, fighting a holy war against progressiveism, applaud this assault on social media owners. They have all right to do so. Apparently, however, they do not realize that by giving them absolute power over the networks and individual data of users, they thus give control of our perception of reality, our motives and desires, that is, our awareness and our subconscious to global oligarchs, who are profoundly indifferent to our sovereign national interests.
I'll tell you more, the fact that we're in a fight is good for them. They besides have deep in the nose of the humanistic and Christian roots of a conservative view of the planet and the essence of human life. There are solid reasons to recognise that the ultraconservativeism and natyvism that technoligarchy is setting up present are just a simple tool for them to carry out their own imagination and mission.
Transhumanism, a imagination of overcoming human biological limitations as much as possible with the aid of technology, in utmost cases up to the attainment of immortality, turns many for whom this biological and presently besides the political planet is besides small. Already in different distant parts of the planet (and in the future besides in the universe and in the virtual world) they build colonies that will function on their principles and which are of course only for the chosen. They see themselves in these plans as superhuman visionaries, engineers and creators of the future reserved exclusively for the narrow elite.
And it is this gap between the imagination of a technologically improved man with the imagination of his Christian being given from God, and the contradiction with the demands of fighting for the needs of average Americans decimated by the globalised economy and the self-righteous elite, that is the reason for the revolt against American technoligarchia, to which Steve Bannon even mentioned late calls.
According to Bannon, in the next decade, we will face a dilemma we have not experienced since the beginning of mankind. Human biotechnology improvement with the aid of genetic engineering, implanted into the brain and body of chips, developing at a staggering rate based on artificial intelligence, will divide humanity into an elite with access to these capabilities (which will evidently not be refunded by the NFZ) and masses that will so have no chance to compete with elites in search of a better life, in access to elite schools, top sports teams or business opportunities.
Of course, present mankind is divided by various gaps in the chances of success. However, the imagination of creating a caste of technologically improved superhumans and masses of average subhumans (Übermensch and Untermensch), which was inspired by Nazis in the past, should nevertheless be considered as a fresh quality. According to Bannon, this secret mission of today’s half-gods from Silicon Valley will not only destruct the United States, but will bring all mankind to disaster, so, as he says, he will fight it day and night.
The alleged accelerators from the old start-ups, for which it is crucial that the ellipse of technological improvement is moving faster – regardless of whether society, people and ecosystems on our planet are able to absorb specified changes – now they have all the resources of this world, have a immense influence on our consciousness and subconsciousness and have a telephone number, and even an office next to those who, at least formally, inactive decide the destiny of the world. There is simply a conflict for the form of the future that seems to be completely avoiding our attention so far.
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Robert Žanony – technological associate of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Slovak branch.
The article comes from a warehouse Capital. From Slovakia, she translated Dorota Blabolil-Obrębska.
