The ascent of the squinting cohort of grim moral fanatics to previously unscaled heights of global power coincides with the descent of mass-democracy to previously unimagined depths of gluttonous corruption. . . Democracy’s relentless trend to degeneration presents an implicit case for reaction.
– Nick Land, The Dark Enlightenment
Between the hectoring ideological apparatus and the entitled masses, there’s no off-ramp. We are doomed to be trapped in the dysfunction they create. The journey we have collectively traveled in the past 500 years inevitably leads to the current moment with its radical unfreedom. We have painted ourselves into a dismal corner, and there’s no way to paint it over.
All that’s left is a leap to a new stage of the evolution. It’s unnecessary that everybody should evolve at once. Only a few people need to do it. They’ll effectuate a jump into a new species, and that new species will create a completely different road instead of the messed-up one we are on. That evolution will be achieved through technology, possibly Elon Musk’s Neuralink being implanted into some people’s brains.
Yes, this is dumb. But nobody has suggested an alternative beyond trying to legislate away centuries of racial guilt, as if there were a huge difference between legislating away the unease caused by the guilt and the guilt itself.
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