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Where I stand with regard to Authoritarianism

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A brief survey of the political landscape will reveal that many societies in the West are rapidly veering to the right with a rise of populism, nationalism, anti-immigration sentiments, and opposition to liberal ideals. Some even predict another rise of fascism within the next few decades.

I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, I'm pleased that society is now rejecting wholesale the aberrant "woke" values that have been foisted upon us for more than a decade, that toxic feminism is being subjected to criticism, that the Far Left's anti-White rhetoric is being repudiated, and that people of European extraction have started to oppose our demographic replacement at the hands of corrupt politicians who sold out to a sinister agenda. I definitely cannot fault the millions of people who voted in the right when the only other presented alternative was a far-left party promoting all kinds of neo-Marxist degeneracy and pushing for the destruction of Western civilization.

On the other hand, I fear that this violent shift to the right could potentially be a stepping stone towards far-right totalitarianism. And it all seems to have been orchestrated by design. Consider for a moment that many of the far-left "woke" trends have been promoted in a top-down manner from mainstream education institutions and the mass media and seem completely contrived. Consider also just how patently provocative and absurd these same trends have been — as though they were purposely engineered to create division and elicit vehement backlash. It seems like the "powers that be" ultimately want to guide us in the direction of fascism, with our natural rejection of wokeism and the Far Left as the catalyst.

Most of us know that a few of the old members on this forum have supported one or another form of far-right authoritarianism — fascism, National Socialism, traditionalist theocracy, etc. All I can say is that they don't know what they're getting themselves into. Lay supporters and armchair theorists of such authoritarian ideologies tend to project onto them their own rose-tinted ideals. But what if they really were to experience life under one such regime? They might like it at first while the regime is banning the things they don't like and persecuting their ideological rivals. But what about when the regime deviates from how they fantastically imagined it and starts banning and persecuting the things they like? :(

I myself briefly became interested in National Socialism not so long ago because I thought that the revival of such a movement was necessary to oppose and take down the Jewish cabal and Chabad-Lubavitch Kabbalists. For a while I harbored within my psyche a strong contradiction between the hyper-centralized authoritarianism of an envisioned Fourth Reich, and my natural freedom-loving disposition and Promethean spirit of exploration and innovation. I even told myself that an "enlightened NS regime" could potentially serve as a platform for supreme technological advancement and future Transhumanist aspirations after defeating the Jewish cabal. Boy was I naïve!

I have since completely disavowed myself of National Socialism and all other forms of authoritarianism.

What then do I support? I now find myself most drawn to Prometheism, as outlined in Jason Reza Jorjani's body of work — a visionary philosophical movement which advocates for a deliberate breakaway of forward-thinking and independently minded Promethean individuals in the face of the rising tide of authoritarianism — whether fascist, traditionalist, etc. — and the subsequent creation of a network of independent and self-sufficient high-tech communities with the aim of furthering AI, bioengineering and other emergent technologies and ultimately transforming ourselves into a godlike transhuman race far away from the reaches of any authoritarian/fascist regimes.

I've outlined this idea in more detail here:

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=52273&p=423551#p423551

I unapologetically support the pursuit of human advancement and unbridled innovation — use of AI and robotics for maximally efficient production and self-sufficiency and elimination of drudgery; gene editing for enhancement of intelligence, beauty, health and athletic performance; the quest for longevity and even biological immortality; and every other form of human enhancement imaginable. Even if the majority doesn't want to pursue such a lofty Promethean goal, I think that a bold and visionary minority should. This is why I'm absolutely opposed to all forms of authoritarianism, fascism, traditionalism, etc. and openly wage war against them — I don't want to be constrained by ideologies and regimes that stifle individual freedom and technological progress and whose only vision for us is that of a limited and self-abnegating slave in their constrictive system.

Authoritarian and traditionalist ideologies promise some level of order and stability in exchange for the relinquishment of individual freedoms under the guise of "morality", "the greater good", etc. — that's their major selling point — but, when they become dominant, they inevitably end up locking societies into fixed forms and thereby suffocating creativity and further progress. In this iteration of human civilization, it will be the traditionalists of various kinds who oppose AI development, gene editing, and life-affirming Transhumanist aspirations.

So no, even though I hate the regressive Left and its "woke" values which are nothing more than collective insanity, I don't support right-wing authoritarianism and instead support a forward-thinking and highly progressive Prometheist breakaway movement with its noble vision of a higher Transhumanist future.


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For years, the right-wing has been claiming that left-wing authoritarianism in the guise of wokeism was an artificial top-down creation whose apparent power was greater than its real power. It turns out that they were right. I am surprised at how quickly it all collapsed under Trump. But now we have right-wing authoritarianism which could be even worse. Trump is creating a federal police force and a privatized system of detention centers (i.e., concentration camps). This is everything that bag of shit Alex Jones was screaming against and now he supports. I don’t see technology as a solution. I am going back to nature. Fucck the modern world.
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MrPeabody wrote:
August 11th, 2025, 3:47 pm
I don’t see technology as a solution. I am going back to nature. Fucck the modern world.
Romanticism notwithstanding, I've never understood the appeal of the whole "back to nature" movement. Life in the preindustrial world for most people was one of subsistence and scarcity, more basic and concerned with eking out a living, with far less access to information and less opportunities for exploration and personal development, not to mention a complete absence of modern medicine.

I consider abandoning modern technology a completely disempowering proposition. Do we really want to go back to eking out a living on the land? To lose an entire mega-library of information available to us at the click of a mouse in the form of the internet? To see our ability to travel and explore the world drastically reduced? To end up with far less avenues for self-realization? To meet an early demise from injuries and diseases that could easily be treated with pharmaceuticals or surgical intervention? Abandoning modern technology means going backwards and re-embracing a lower state of existence.

Then there is the whole independence and self-sufficiency angle. As I explained in my other post, cutting-edge technologies will soon allow small breakaway micro-polities to achieve self-sufficiency and thereby remove themselves from the system, which will likely become far more totalitarian. Adopting them will be necessary for this goal. Furthermore, in a world where adoption of these technologies is ubiquitous, it will also be necessary for any given community to keep up to date with most recent innovations for defense purposes.

I don't want to go backwards to a world where people are almost uniquely concerned with basic subsistence, live in ignorance, and follow primitive religions based on submission. Instead, I want a future with even greater avenues for independence, individual freedom, knowledge, exploration, and self-realization. That's why I support further technological development and a Promethean ethos.
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Lucas88 wrote:
August 12th, 2025, 9:45 am
MrPeabody wrote:
August 11th, 2025, 3:47 pm
I don’t see technology as a solution. I am going back to nature. Fucck the modern world.
Romanticism notwithstanding, I've never understood the appeal of the whole "back to nature" movement. Life in the preindustrial world for most people was one of subsistence and scarcity, more basic and concerned with eking out a living, with far less access to information and less opportunities for exploration and personal development, not to mention a complete absence of modern medicine.

I consider abandoning modern technology a completely disempowering proposition. Do we really want to go back to eking out a living on the land? To lose an entire mega-library of information available to us at the click of a mouse in the form of the internet? To see our ability to travel and explore the world drastically reduced? To end up with far less avenues for self-realization? To meet an early demise from injuries and diseases that could easily be treated with pharmaceuticals or surgical intervention? Abandoning modern technology means going backwards and re-embracing a lower state of existence.

Then there is the whole independence and self-sufficiency angle. As I explained in my other post, cutting-edge technologies will soon allow small breakaway micro-polities to achieve self-sufficiency and thereby remove themselves from the system, which will likely become far more totalitarian. Adopting them will be necessary for this goal. Furthermore, in a world where adoption of these technologies is ubiquitous, it will also be necessary for any given community to keep up to date with most recent innovations for defense purposes.

I don't want to go backwards to a world where people are almost uniquely concerned with basic subsistence, live in ignorance, and follow primitive religions based on submission. Instead, I want a future with even greater avenues for independence, individual freedom, knowledge, exploration, and self-realization. That's why I support further technological development and a Promethean ethos.
Speaking of such communities, anybody interested in going to Anarchpulco Europe in three weeks? They're trying to start a new country in between Serbia and Croatia, generally based on some libertarian principles that I think many here would be comfortable with. I recommend the three-day gabfest only because I think it has a really great lineup of speakers, including several to whom I pay attention regularly. Heavy emphasis on alternative health approaches (no pharmaceuticals). I'd go for sure if I was still in Serbia but unfortunately am back in the U.S. for a few months. For more info DM me.
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