Technocracy and fascist politics are being embraced by megalomaniac elites scheming for their own survival ~ Ned Ludd ~ Originally published
Long before Donald Trump, whilst most of them were espousing liberal or libertarian politics, the Silicon Valley oligarchs began subscribing to a set of techno-fascist ideologies centred on engineering human beings. These include transhumanism (the modern version of eugenics), singularitarianism (the belief that humans must be technologically upgraded until they merge with machines), and Long-Termism, which is a good example of the essentially fascist nature of these ideologies.
Long-Termists argue that technology will create, in the far future, a universe inhabited by 10^55 humans, running in bliss as disembodied intelligences in computers, tended by AIs. In order to ensure that this ‘heaven’ is realised, the long-termists argue, it does not matter if billions of humans die from starvation or existential threats such as climate change and nuclear war, so long as an elite survives to eventually upload itself into computers. So, it is not just that AI is the perfect ‘tool’ of fascist corporate oligarchs: it is a technocratic power system which shapes them and their philosophy and politics. The great power and effectiveness of science and technology engenders a kind of tunnel-visioned ruthlessness, and megalomaniac schemes of social engineering, which carelessly throw aside basic ethical and human values, in just the same way that political fascism does.
