• kautau@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I mean, the point now is just the end of your comment

    pay a corporation

    The super rich are trying to collapse governments and turn society into religio-corpo-city-states where they can be neofeudalist kings where their family line maintains through history no matter how technology changes. No different than kingdoms of the past where it’s mostly suffering combined with war, except they’ve convinced crypto bros and other idiots that they’d be knights in this system and are spending boatloads of money to achieve their goals.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

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      4 hours ago

      The more popular plan among them seems to be this

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

      If you read through it you’ll find a lot of the things in project 2025 that came out of nowhere (like taking Canada, Greenland, and Panama) are actually goals of the movement

      Oh, and Elon’s Grandpa was in the movement, and the heritage foundation was started by the same group

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        32 minutes ago

        Certainly true to an extent, but I’d argue the biggest supporters of dark enlightenment only see technocracy as a stepping stone and are trying everything to get to the end goal. They don’t want people to be voted into power based on their tech background, they want power exclusively and without challenge.

        Musk in the White House, big balls in our tax systems, etc, was all supposed to hop the accelerationism train towards technocracy until it was clear that years and years of paper and software systems spread across thousands of employees are wildly complex and you can’t just throw an alt-right Ivy League grad with unlimited copilot credits to solve the problem.

        The US is the most obvious example though, as you mentioned, multiple countries are trying that slow creep into technocracy, but I still see that as blowing money into governments for the super rich in the tech sector getting the power they are craving.

        Funny enough in a true technocracy you’d never have musk, bezos, cook, etc in power. They aren’t nearly as smart as the people they employ. But those people who would be in power generally don’t give a fuck about others. They’re the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun of today’s age. They’d pursue their goals regardless of outcome, because technological advancement is all that matters to them