So, I just watched a new video from Kyle Kulinski interviewing some guy about the origins of Elon Musk's ideas. Apparently, a lot of it goes back to the so called "Dark Enlightenment" and a lot of alt right message boards on 4 chan. I mean, I'm one to talk about getting your ideas from forums on the internet, but let's face it, human centered capitalism is essentially a left wing progressive version of that.
This...is basically like...what I'd call like "anarcho capitalism in practice." As we know, anarcho capitalism doesn't work, it would eventually devolve into just raw anarchy with no capitalism, or it would devolve into some sort of techno feudalism where corporations run everything. This is essentially the latter. It comes from this strain of right wing thought which is associated with being anti democracy, pro monarchy, and pro laissez faire capitalism. People wonder how people can go from ancaps to being alt right and on board with trump, and it's basically this. What really seals the deal with these people is they have disdain for democracy, disdain for common peoples' opinions or interests, and this belief that capitalism should transcend states. Originally, it can be argued, states exist in order to protect the "rights" and privileges of the wealthy. But over time, we started ceding power to the people, and a lot of the elites look at this with disdain. They believe they are this ubermensch that only they are qualified to rule, and only they are intellectually fit enough to make decisions that rightfully belong to all of us. We had the magna carta, we had democracy, we had the new deal, etc. And to some extent the wealthy played ball as long as they got theirs in the end. Well...ever since the new deal, they wanted to roll it back. We saw this with the mont pelerin society in the 1950s and 1960s, we saw this with the execution of the shock doctrine to push neoliberalism onto us in the 1980s. And now Musk is kinda wanting to overthrow democracy altogether and implement his vision of techno feudalism that he got off of some far right wing corner of the internet.
Trump is bad enough. Trump, I dont think he has much of an ideology other than being vaguely nationalistic, he's in it for himself, but he's fronting ALL the bad guys. The christian nationalists, the nazis, and even these weirdo dark enlightenment guys. It's a weird mix of all of the evil right wing ideologies mixed up into one. Christian extremism, fascism, and techno feudalism. The worst each faction of the right all has to offer all at once.
As the guy Kyle was interviewing said, if people know what's going on, they should resist immediately, this is an attempted takeover of the government, it is an attempted coup. We are now in germany 1933 mode, and we need a left that is willing to actually fight back and not wuss out like they've been doing. Really, what IS our side of the aisle doing? What are the left wingers in power doing? We should be doing what the right does to us and obstructing every little thing the right does. We should be pushing back with everything we got. Screw the actual policy agenda for us atm, we can figure that out in 2028. We need to push back against elon's little coup, NOW. Really, this is some dark psycho crap, and I don't think that the guy being interviewed is wrong at all. Really, this here, is the "final boss" so to speak. The epitome of all that is evil, the rejection of all social progress and a return to the forces of primal authoritarianism. It must be stopped, or we are all screwed.
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