Can Democracy Defeat Techno Fascism?

Big Tech is all-in on AI techno-fascism.

The tech bros love the violence, the domination, the lies, and the white male supremacy death cult. They’re building luxury bunkers as their escape route when they burn everything to the ground.

AI is their tech dream. A pure male virgin birth, it is something they are so proud of. The code of life. The consolidator of power and dominance. The devourer. Grand theft AI – designed to steal all the intellectual property of humanity and sell it back to us as a service. What’s not to like? Designed to strip us of our very ability to think and remember in order to create dependency and addiction. The dream of the tech bros is to have a world full of functioning addicts.

For all their power and wealth, they are a debased and shallow gang. They fell down before Trump, licking the floor, so excited that he would let them build their beloved AI data centres as fast as they wanted and wherever they wanted. He would give them everything and they would give him everything; all their hollow loveless affection and big donations for his ballroom of bromance.

To anyone who had been watching closely, it was no surprise. The tech bros and Trump were made for each other. They share the very same male valueless void, the very same emptiness of morals and ethics and basic decency. They are bottomless holes. No matter how much they acquire, they will never be satisfied. They will always want more.

These are the men who rule our world and AI is their grandest weapon.

MANOSPHERE GRIFTERS

Big Tech has long been an industry of devouring and environmental devastation. Planned obsolescence is its toxic philosophy. Market shiny new products designed for the trash. The more waste, the more profit.

It is not an accident that AI demands the electricity of cities and the water of countries. It is not an accident that its chips and data centres are super-material intense, demanding a surge in mining. That’s deliberate, by design. The more Big Tech can consume and devour, the more it controls the economy, and the more it can feed the insatiable GDP of the Growth Death Cult.

Of course, for the gullible, there is cheap greenwashing tech optimism talk of fake renewable energy. All this so-called clean and green energy made from lithium, aluminium, copper and rare earths, and a never before seen surge in mining that is wiping out our remaining biodiversity. All of this is hidden as much as possible in the Global South, among the Indigenous communities, or in the poor neighbourhoods and rural areas of the Global North.

The green transition is fake. The green sacrifice zones are real.

There is no such thing as truth when it comes to AI. That’s one of the reasons it was caught off-guard by what happened in Brazil and the USA. Musk and Co. thought that, with his X-AI and his millions, he could manipulate everything in the truth-free world they had been fashioning.

Here’s the thing. The men who gave birth to AI are monsters. They have lived their whole lives as grifters, scammers and con artists. They have a potentially fatal weakness, though. For their worldview to be coherent, we the people must be without agency, hardly human. Certainly not in any way comparable to them, these gods, these masters of the universe.

Turns out we have agency, at least for a while more. The Brazilian old and sick got up from their beds and walked long distances to polling stations, not simply to save the idea of a better Brazil. Despite Meta’s worst efforts, these old democrats were determined to save the idea that humans are decent and kind. That humans like to share and help out. That when the choice is between the Amazon or Amazon.com, many will want to save the forest.

The black women of the USA were immune to AI too. They voted en masse the same way they have voted en masse again and again. They voted for fairness, for decency, for a better life for all. It was, yet again, the women who saved society from the lies of AI, as the young men had so easily fallen into the traps laid by the manosphere grifters. Now, the tech bros are in panic, as they rush to buy the other half of the Democratic Party, that they hadn’t bought already.

STOCK MARKET SCAM

Meanwhile, all over the world, we the people are marching and organising against the AI data centres. We know that, asides from a short-term construction boost, they bring hardly any jobs or local prosperity. Only noise and pollution, and heat and a ravenous demand for electricity and water. Even in tech-haven Ireland, we are waking up to the fact that the country that gives more of its electricity to data centres than any other, must force its citizens to foot the bill by paying some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Our government, meanwhile, can’t wait to build more.

Monsters make monsters. Musk and Thiel and Altman and Bezos and Zuckerberg can only be who they are. We have perhaps one last chance to slow them, if not stop them. Once they achieve enough power, they will have no hesitation in turning Dublin or Manchester or Recife into a Gaza. For Gaza is their AI prototype, their war game, their model of creative destruction out of which they plan to build, on the bones of millions, a Silicon Gaza, a Trump Plaza.

AI is not inevitable. Certainly not this monster great big lying machine that is being shoved down our throats. We can resist. We must resist. It’s not even good technology. It’s highly unreliable, prone to serious error, and massively over-engineered in the most brute-force coding and processing sort of way. It is a stock market scam. At every level, it is a catastrophe for our already collapsing environment.

The opposite of this AI is a society of less economic growth and more spiritual growth. A society of less time online and more time in nature. A society of less individualism and tech bros, and more real friends and community. A society of radically less materials and energy, and more life, biodiversity and true sustainability. Remember, memory is a form of resistance.

Every road into the future is hard. We have damaged too much. Civilisational collapse is coming. The question now is how severe and how sudden. If we continue all-in on AI, as we have done up until now, we will soon meet a series of cliffs and walls and catastrophes.

The old people of Brazil and the black women of the USA, have thrown us a lifeline. We never really chose the tech bros. They tricked us with their smooth-talking AI, their easy conveniences, and false promises of cheap forever abundance.

Now that we know who they are, the question becomes, who are we?