Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream Of A Silicon Reich
Welcome to the latest political fashion among the California Confederacy: total corporate despotism. It is a potent and bitter ideological mash that could have only been concocted at tech cultures funky smoothie bara little Steve Jobs here, a little Ayn Rand there, and some Ray Kurzweil for color.
Tunney was at one time a prominent and divisive fixture of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Lately, though, her views have . . . evolved. How does an anticapitalist tranarchist (transgender anarchist) become a hard-right seditionist?
Read Mencius Moldbug, Tunney told her Twitter followers last month, referring to an aggressively dogmatic blogger with a reverent following in certain tech circles.
Tunneys advice is easier said than done, for Moldbug is as prolific as he is incomprehensible. His devotees, many of whom are also bloggers, describe themselves as the neoreactionary vanguard of a Dark Enlightenment. They oppose popular suffrage, egalitarianism and pluralism. Some are atheists, while others affect obscure orthodox beliefs, but most are youngish white males embittered by political correctness. As best I can tell, their ideal society best resembles Blade Runner, but without all those Asian people cluttering up the streets. Neoreactionaries like to see themselves as the heroes of another sci-fi movie, in fact, sometimes boasting that they have been redpilled, like Keanu Reevess character in The Matrixa movie Moldbug regards as genius.
Link:
http://thebaffler.com/blog/2014/05/mouthbreathing_machiavellis