Recognize this for what it is: a direct and total attack on the very foundation of the American theory of justice: equal protection of all under law in virtue of our equal humanity and equal citizenship
As digital disenchants the electric age order, where those most expert in the mass broadcast of ethical fantasies rule, the Left is proving helpless to deny the right to the most abject and insane fantasies to its most anti-American vanguard
So the respectable Left is now painted into a corner where it insists with religious devotion that the online Right must be deradicalized on terms set by people who wish to annihilate America’s regime and replace it with Maoistic occultism
Whole generations online are <10 years away from making a fundamental break of their own with the American identity and its theory of justice. Utterly unrecoverable through woke re-education camps. In fact, to recover them, it is the woke clerisy that must be rooted out
Meanwhile of course the respectable Right has no grasp of the digital transformation, pathetic links to tech, and a snobbish/terrified reaction to the wilds of online where vast hordes of young barbarians lacking bow ties flex and laugh
And so established conservatism becomes one more piece of impotent cringe content sucked into the all consuming digital archive, suitable only for lols and derision on its way to oblivion
If anyone is going to salvage America from the wokeist revenge fantasy, recover the rising online generations for civic life, and steer the regime through the harrowing challenges of the digital disenchantment, it won’t be the panicking Left or the kitsch Right.
It’ll be those with the credibility and the training in the real political science of American regime maintenance, who grasp digital, can reach the young, and are free from the rigor mortis of ideological establishments conservative and liberal.
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The story of 20th-century Russia was one of the intelligentsia and the underclass catastrophically creating unstable, unsustainable power by trying to replace the energy of the soul with that of the machine—something 21st-century factions in the West are now trying to do better.
Based on Putin’s various remarks decrying the collapse as well as the rise and rule of the USSR he recognizes this situation. Russia watchers would do well to conclude that under Putin Russia is reoriented to the restoration of its civilization’s energy of the soul.
Of course this would only be consistent with the broader pattern of civilization states that are digital powers scrambling to establish official theologies in order to preserve their sovereignty under digital conditions
#HumanForever is out now in paperback. Canada and GoFundMe dramatize why I wrote it, published it on chain, and priced it in bitcoin. Our political life is being obsolesced—to terraform our natural and God-given humanity into a collectivist cyborg swarm. canonic.xyz/books/1YV9yExb…
Neither paralysis nor wars of words or dreams will save us. Our sacred and natural humanity, and the digital rights inherent in it, must be actively, physically preserved. We must retake rightful technological control—the aim of a #2ndAmendmentforCompute.
Our rights to mine, buy, sell, and use bitcoin and cryptocurrency to create culture and markets; to buy and use high-powered GPUs; and to do so free from enclosure in a social credit system of perpetual search and arbitrary seizure—all inhere in our Constitution and our humanity.
For months I’ve been telling all who can hear (including Congress) that the Russian civilization-state’s response to the digital catastrophe was signaled by its construction of a vast cathedral announcing a new and deeper relationship between the church and the armed forces. 🧵
The catastrophe in its geopolitical form is the obsolescence of any regime unable to establish sovereignty on digital ground. This has to do with the Main Cathedral of the Armed Forces as the catastrophe in its anthropological form retrieves the theological character of reality.
That retrieval is due to digital making foundational and reopening once again the ultimate questions about who and why we are and why we should bother with any of it—our life, our humanity, our sanity, our suffering. Questions (post)modern word games and feelings fail to answer
“One technology created within the digital medium has arisen with a clear and already well-functioning capability to move us past the passive faith in algorithmic fiat that today characterizes the approaching singularity of weaponized information...”
“back into the position of human beings extending rather than eliminating our senses and faculties to conduct arms-length but trustably face-to-face collaborative work in culture creation and valuation. This is bitcoin...”
I think a lot about Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Nikephoras II Phokas, Eastern Roman Emperor.
While I can’t substantiate it, the story about Nikephoras is that he wanted to canonize fallen soldiers himself and the Patriarch said no. Henry, as is known, wanted to invest bishops with sacred authority himself and was also negged, ultimately renouncing claim to select popes.
The question of whether holy emperors could take secular control of religious appointments appears likely to have come to a general head around the turn of the millennium. In Christendom the outcome expressed for the answer a powerful no.