The inevitability of technodictatorship

Or voluntary servility?

In these strange times, when coffee-flavored drinks are appearing on supermarket shelves, was the person who came up with this idea a reader of Orwell? It seems to me that we are not yet being forced to accept that 2+2 equals 5, or are we? It seems to me that many are already defending that this is the value of this sum. Volunteers in favor of eternal slavery, defenders of technological front men, disguised as libertarians, in reality just puppets controlled by the great Hydra of capital and its à la carte branches.

Yes, it is still here, always recycling itself.

Dear reader, calm down, this will not be a text that will defend the Soviet slave-owning utopia nor capitalism and its market nonsense, much less the sophistry called democracy. However, it will be necessary to go through all the intestines of these monsters called production systems, these human creations that make the wheel turn, where we are kidnapped by our stomachs and currently teleguided by an informational machine never seen before.

Where did it all start and how? The search for maximum efficiency, a cursed search. Improved by the eternal gurus of manufacturing, Taylors, Fords and Gastevs on the red side. (I make it clear from the outset that there will be a manifesto against Pavlovian binarism). This is a subject I would like to go into in more depth, but I will leave here just an introduction in the words of Lenin in 1918:

“Keep your money accounts carefully and honestly, manage it economically, do not be lazy, do not steal, observe the strictest discipline in work — these are precisely the slogans that, rightly ridiculed by the revolutionary proletarians when the bourgeoisie covered up its rule as a class of exploiters with similar speeches, have now become, after the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the main and immediate slogans of the moment.” ¹

Translation: We will continue to do everything we were doing under the tutelage of the Tsar and his bourgeois henchmen, but now it will be different. Now it will be to save the country. Eighty years later the bureaucracy was there, the nomenklatura reigned supreme. The state was stronger than ever and its dissolution never happened. Lenin will remain embalmed for the next 1000 years and will not see the existence of what he planned in his beautiful book The State and Revolution.

We cannot forget that it was these maniacs who, at the beginning of the 20th century, anabolized what was happening in the previous century.

Production is the key word. No matter the color of the surplus value, part of the surplus returns to the system and helps produce more. Compound interest created from the work of hungry utopians forced or deluded by consumption and the eternal future, paradise on Earth.

Munford's Megamachine, which had its beginnings in the distant Egypt of the pyramids, the same ones that continue here, on every corner. Attracting people with unrealistic expectations about profits or wanting to hit the jackpot, a large human version of the penguins that all spin together trying to keep warm. One is always thrown off the axis, having to fight to get back and sit in his chair. We learn this game early in our lives. Humans transformed into steam horses, numbers in tables, automatic camels, counted rations, calories, nutrition, and dietetics to combat excesses. There is a solution for everything at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. Production cannot stop, or better yet, money cannot stop, we are accelerating more and more.

Cashbacks drive more purchases, videos in high speed make us watch faster and pay faster virtual beggars, attention and clicks. A large system of emulation of behaviors, of unbridled copies appear by the thousands every day, flooding the imagination and filling the gaps of the day.

Let's leave this topic for later and return to 2025 and the continuation of the construction of the technocratic world.

The process has gradually been perfected and adapted to new needs, becoming totalizing, but not by itself, built by everyone. The fantasy of pyramidal capital cannot stop, at the slightest sign of drag we exchange altitude for speed and we will fly further.

We are experiencing an autophagy, a process of destruction that builds other temporary structures that may or may not be adequate. Everything can easily be considered a strategic error and need to be dismantled again. Money no longer exists, electrons move from virtual wallets to others, I buy now and sell in 10 minutes, someone lost. Standardization was necessary for all of this to be happening now, the formatting of minds has been going on for a long time, forcibly placed in minds, through their multiple ideological apparatuses, yes, the Marxists are quite right in their criticisms.

The continuous improvement of this process has made the globalized world uniform in terms of money circulation; as far as it goes, things stay the same. The system emulates local particularities, but the operation is the same: cards, transfers, exchanges, commissions, profits, and the wheel turns again. Next, says the attendant.

In the middle of all this, we have the human being, stuck in the present, dreaming of tomorrow and trying to forget what went wrong so far. Although there are many paths to take, almost all of them involve selling one's soul to the system, whether in cash or in installments. In the race to earn tomorrow's lunch, while the sand in the hourglass keeps going down, there is no way out but to throw oneself into an increasingly square world.

A trim here, a change of position there, an adjustment to make the shirt fit better, and we have yet another unhappy slave to a system that leaves no alternatives. The priorities of everyday life have already left there no room for even thinking, much less enjoying the short life that we have. The penalty that most people are subjected to is 40 hours a week. Work dignifies man! It even reminds me of that famous phrase from a place where they used to incinerate people.

Today we incinerate ourselves with a lighter, every day a little part of our body suffers from the flames, have we become masochists? A large planet made up of masochists! Sadists and masochists, choose your side and your fantasy, this is one of the advantages of post-1968 freedoms.

I call them masochists because we cannot place all the responsibility on the ideological apparatuses, nor on the evil capitalists, nor on the utopian socialists, and much less only on their repressive apparatuses, there has to be something more. The virus of technocracy entered our bodies through the television spectrum and never left.

The great mother ship of brainwashing managed to reach 100% of the population. Applause for its creators. Returning to Mumford, nothing is truly impossible for technology. All attempts that even slightly presented another path were run over by this talking box. There is no way to abandon it, it is here to stay. The speed increases, but it is still possible to speed up this machine even more!

Almost at the turn of the 21st century, the internet appears to destroy and rebuild the foundations of what we live now, there is nothing outside of it, television is slowly turning into clay tablets from Sumer, printed newspapers are becoming written in some cave, everything is left behind. Now it is turbo technology.

The financialization will now be total, nothing will escape the great octopus and its tentacles, technological madness is omnipresent. We go from cryptocurrencies to investment funds with bonds backed by carbon credits, everything is possible. Soon real estate speculators will launch a project on Mars, the rocket is already about to take off. I heard that people will be able to pay their Martian mortgages with credits from views and likes. There will also be the possibility of reducing the installments if the buyer agrees to endorse and reproduce the speech of some ideological influencer approved by the system, mind you, only those authorized by the status quo.

There are many opportunities for growth and appreciation of your investments, but come quickly, Ouroboros Corporation is open to receive you. For the first hundred, there will be special cashback conditions that can be used on space travel (one-way) to Mars.

The bricks are placed one by one in front of us. Where do they come from? From the back of the line, they are passed around in the same way that buckets are passed around in a fire, they are taken from the back and assembled at the front. During the handover, some cybernetics make improvements, there is also quality control. Thus, the data feeds back into the system, new observations and guidance, Boyd's OODA cycle in almost everything, especially in the propaganda of this great scheme. And the crank turns again, another batch arriving. Speaking of batches, we are the wood to be consumed in the technological furnace, there is no escape, technofeudalism is here to stay, technological absolutism is also a good term, since we are full of kings and princes of technology to praise and thank them on our knees. Or they would be popes, or better yet, king-popes. That's right, we must centralize everything in one person, who is at the same time king, pope, circus clown, propagandist, puppet, myth and big brother. Welcome to technocracy! It took a while but we got there in time, we are still here! All thanks to technology and our voluntary adherence to everything, for fear of falling behind, not being up to date or out of fashion. Victims of a system where there are no morals or ethics, everything is relative, the limits can be pushed to one side or the other.

There is also a third axis that is not talked about much due to binarism, it is the Z axis, the axis of depth, after all we are in a universe that has at least 3 dimensions. This subject is far from being exhausted and will not end here, soon new words will emerge through cyberspace and this fantastic technological medium! I end these brief words with the optimism of the pessimist Mumford: "But for those of us who have freed ourselves from the myth of the machine, the next step is ours: the gates of the technocratic prison will open automatically, despite their old and rusty hinges, as soon as we decide to leave." ²

¹ Lenin, V. Obras Escolhidas em Três Tomos, 1978, t2, pp 557-587, Edições Avante! — Lisboa, Edições Progresso — Moscovo.

² MUMFORD, L. Technics and human development. The myth of the machine, vol I. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1967.

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