TECHNOFEUDALISM 2040
As I said earlier, "I've got two cartoons in the works that go together and you're all gonna fuckin hate em lol" here they are. A lot of earnest hatred went into these.
Loathsome, right? Horrific. I made these to mock the tech-elites' vision for our future and the TESCREAL religions that guide them. I'm gonna rant about it now
"The tech industry created the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?" -Curtis Yarvin
TESCREAL as defined by Emile P Torres is actually a really really influential way of thinking by society's tech-elite right now. It's a bundle of ideas couched in sci-fi and futurism but really it's just kind of a freaky religion followed by the likes of Musk, Zuck, Thiel, Bezos and Vance.
These aren't really quirky and fun ideas anymore - to TESCREAL believers, these are directives, or a sacred moral duty to fulfill.
- Transhumanism - the human body and mind should be changed radically and by force if necessary. A way of enforcing superiority as a matter of Fact more than Feeling.
- Extropianism - utopian vision of neverending "improvement" (disruption) of the human condition - by way of transhumanism.
- Singularity - artificial super-intelligence is not only imminent but should be pursued at all costs.
- Cosmism - pretty simply, our future lies in space colonization. But not only planets - every available nook and cranny of the entire universe.
- Rationalism - in the smug, STEM sense of "we are smart and know what's best for everyone"
- Effective Altruism - sort of a new, friendly face for the age-old idea that rich people know best what to do with their money.
- Longtermism - sounds ok, right? Wrong. It's actually worship of a magnificent, universe-spanning eternal empire of post-humans at the end of time. Any sacrifice made for these people is worth it if this glorious future can be resolved eventually.
The result of all this is a religion that worships this future vision. To fail would be to abort the future lives of billions of trillions of space-beings - a grand cosmic tragedy, or an S-risk.
To us, this means a technocratic cabal of smug, shady assholes from Silicon Valley are basically data-mining our brains for profit and research toward the end of subjugating or even replacing humanity with their 2.0 vision for the universe. In the nearer term, this means disrupting world orders with the goal of forcing in so-called "network cities". In other words, tech-fiefs owned by a megacorp where your life is the city CEO's private property.
A tangent: as I'm writing this MAGA fascism could be considered a more immediate threat. So you might be thinking, why bother with this TESCREAL nonsense? People are getting disappeared and deported to Gitmo right this second. I say, good point and you're right. But also, MAGA is dumb as rocks, incompetent and chained to one old man's cult of personality. The rich and powerful he's surrounded by are TESCREAL believers and I think it will ultimately have more staying power.
My personal reasoning: this is a dogshit ideology for baby-men who need to feel like the smartest guy in every room. Real high-int low-wis shit. Goofy sci-fi lives in the future that don't even exist yet are worth inherently less than real human lives in the present. Trillions of future civilizations on worlds we haven't discovered yet are worth inherently less than our one planet Earth, our actual home that is right now the only one we have. Your virgin TESCREAL utopianism vs my chad "one bird in my hand is worth your two in the bush".
I was the animation director for a TESCREAL propaganda channel for a few years and this is my defection.
If you read my schizo-ramblings, I hope you enjoyed. Maybe you learned something, maybe you're just amused.
I'm just out here doing what I can, the only way I know how!
