A group of anonymous authors has published this well-sourced memorandum on Musk and the Neoreactionary movement. Please share widely. The threat is not well understood. Take a moment to read the one page executive summary now; then call Congress.
https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-February-5-2025.pdf
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I’m not in the US, and tend to treat the far-right scene about the same as flerfers and antivaxxers: block and avoid… wouldn’t be surprised if most people did the same.
Apparently, this has been steadily brewing over time, the ideology can be traced back to… pretty much Plato’s “Republic”, 2400 years ago, advocating for “wise Kings” as ideal rulers of city-states. Everything from there on, is a rehash on the same old theme.
Technocracy is a more modern take, starting before Von Braun and his Project Mars with an Elon ruler, followed by VISA and Dee Hock’s attempt at establishing a digital currency, from there to PayPal and Elon Musk’s failure to make it into one, a short lived digital gold attempt, Bitcoin and its “mining”, all the crypto sphere with DAOs and NFTs, with Musk’s attempts to make Project Mars a reality in between, adding to the mix works like Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World, Hubbard’s works and legacy, Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, and similar.
Democrats used to see that line of thinking as a cautionary tale, Cypherpunk movements being at an intersection, while Neoliberal Capitalists seem to have shook hands with the far-right to work on expanding and implementing it as if it was a manual.
Yea I watched those today. How tf did the Dems not know? (I ask theoretically)
I’m not in the US, and tend to treat the far-right scene about the same as flerfers and antivaxxers: block and avoid… wouldn’t be surprised if most people did the same.
Apparently, this has been steadily brewing over time, the ideology can be traced back to… pretty much Plato’s “Republic”, 2400 years ago, advocating for “wise Kings” as ideal rulers of city-states. Everything from there on, is a rehash on the same old theme.
Technocracy is a more modern take, starting before Von Braun and his Project Mars with an Elon ruler, followed by VISA and Dee Hock’s attempt at establishing a digital currency, from there to PayPal and Elon Musk’s failure to make it into one, a short lived digital gold attempt, Bitcoin and its “mining”, all the crypto sphere with DAOs and NFTs, with Musk’s attempts to make Project Mars a reality in between, adding to the mix works like Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World, Hubbard’s works and legacy, Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, and similar.
Democrats used to see that line of thinking as a cautionary tale, Cypherpunk movements being at an intersection, while Neoliberal Capitalists seem to have shook hands with the far-right to work on expanding and implementing it as if it was a manual.
Cheers. Thanks for this thoughtful comment.