(TL;DR: We no longer understand the reality around us and live in a state of growing confusion. The culprit is Silicon Valley, which is preparing a dystopian coup against democracy.) Wherever you go these days, everyone expresses in one way or another that reality seems to have stopped making sen

Cross-posted from “A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy” by @crossdl@leminal.space in !technology@lemmy.world

The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

  • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    7·
    15 days ago

    Mainly about Peter Thiel as the eminence grise pushing for an end to democracy and nation states.

    Thiel-backed Balaji Srinivasan’s manifesto for “network states” sounds scarily like the “Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities (FOQNEs)” from Snow Crash.

      • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        15 days ago

        “We are proud to announce that after years of R&D, we have finally managed to build a working Torment Nexus from the bestselling novel ‘For the love of god please don’t build a Torment Nexus’!”