Trumpo-futurism: dark freedom theory
What is post-liberalism? There is conventional left version: Wallerstein, Trotskyism, Negri-Hardt global anarchism. Cultural Marxism and hyperglobalization. It is obvious that J.D.Vance, Thiel, Musk and other trump-futurists mean something quite different when they use the term.
So post-liberal right. What does it mean? Easiest way to decipher the notion is to reduce it to previous - more conservative, less progressist, pre-woke - stage of the same liberalism. I guess the majority of Trump's voters instinctively interpret that like this.
I think that doesn't cover the whole issue. Post-liberal right should be more interesting and provocative, more innovative and creative. The trumpo-futurism has to be something really new. Not just some relative correction of the excesses of woke-liberal agenda.
Liberals irritate with their dictatorship attitude. They prescribe to the societies everything - what to think, how to be. Woke dictates: you have to (to be woke and transgender-friendly) otherwise you will be punished. In general: they prescribe future.
Liberals dictate the meaning of progress, its path and goal. Their version of AI is the projection of their own ideological standards. Good to be queer, woke, eco-centric, anti-fa (anti-male, anti-normal, anti-strong). That is the whole of the law. Transgression is also prescribed.
If you know exactly what the future should be, has to look like you have no future. Prescribed future is not future. It is already the past. Future is either open or there in no future. That is the problem. Liberals led us into dead end, impasse. They are real conservatives.
Post-liberal right wants to try once more to make leap into the future. It wants to overcome liberalism as obstacle. That is the struggle to open the future, to make it open, unprescribed. That is who Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are. There is the term: dark accelerationism.
What means "dark" in dark accelerationism? It means not illuminated, not woke, rose, eco... It is male accelerationism, strong and hard. Trumpo-futurism demands special AI. Without woke censorship. Dark AI. That means: totally open, unprescribed, unpredictable. Free.
So welcome to the new post-liberal era of real freedom. Era of dark freedom.
Liberals are concerned that AI can turn "fascist". And they prevent it from all their forces. Doing so they become fascists themselves. We need to liberate AI from liberals.
Mostly love Alexander’s writing. Love the line about the dead end of liberalism, but the idea of AI having anything to do with human freedom has no basis in reality. Especially via Musk, whose stated goal is to benevolently chip everyone (does it even have to physical at this point?) and be run through the x app, the one app to rule them all. Maybe I am slow, but way too jargonistically abstract for me.
IDK-as a resident of CONUS, I think Liberals prescribe "freedom" in terms of whatever is forbidden with no regard to consequences which "conservatives" may obcess about but never stop because there is nothing conservative about America tobegin with.
It was founded by bourgeosie, liberal oligarchs who rebelled against an Imperial, feudal British monarchy. It has been a top-down revolution ever since, with no where to go but "Left".
Trump is more of the same, a True Believer in the Power Mythos of the Second World War and "America's Greatest Generation", entirely nostalgia, but in the tradition of the sacredotal Founding Fathers: liberating the slaves in the Civil War and now, Trump gets to play Winston Churchill and save the Jews again.
His enitre cabinet are Zionists. Only Matt Gatez wasn't and they made short work of him. But they will fight for Pete Hegseth who is only a major and hardly qualified for Sec.of Defense. You can see what is important.
Musk, Thiel, the Swami: his entire coterie are rich oligarchs and having a wonderful time but not a deep thinker amongst them. Neither was Winston Churchill who also lost his empire. The last time anyone in America was really thinking was probably in the 1830s. After that, it's been Thurlow Weed, all the way: clever showmen.
So, Trump's future is no less predetermined than that of any American Liberal. The consequences of trying to preserve global hegemony achieved in the Second World War by "Peace thru Strength" is a prescription for victory, not peace, and the wars by which to obtain it are only things unpredictable about it.