We are arriving at another civilization pivot, whether we want it or not. 2600 years ago the age of the presocratics kicked off a wave of reason, of technique, and of education. Mysticism was traded for logic, and men reasoned (with only the primitive tools at their disposal) the nature of the universe and our place within it. Over the centuries, more men continued to explore the reaches of philosophical reasoning for all this, including sparking major scientific advances leading us to the technique we have today.

Thinkers and practitioners, layered hypotheses and theories upon technique and discovery to build nations upon nations over millennia. We are here today because of them, with the advances we have in both thought and technique.

However, we are now at a point where thinkers have ceded way to malicious practitioners who abuse technique for personal gain. This is not unique to this time, but the balance has tipped increasingly in their favour as it has as eras ebb and flow.

The era of celebrity technocrat is reaching its maxim. Their wealth is staggering, their influence is total, their thumb on the cultural scale is heavy—yet their vision is shortsighted, their strategies are inelegant, and their ideologies are baked in dogma, not logic. The men they rely on to continue their reign, provide the thinking. A technocrat must outsource thought in order to rule their environment. Layers upon layers of thinking, outsourced to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of thinkers and compliant practitioners who create and deploy technique.

The celebrity technocrats have built unimaginable empires that rule civilization not through fist or firearm, but through monitors and manipulation. They have assembled vast halls of thinkers and practitioners that translate dogma into logic, then back to dogma again.

The celebrity technocrats think themselves gods. Their world shaped by excess influence, subservience, and abundance. They take for granted everything in their world, for the staggering wealth they hoard never depletes, never dwindles, never drains.

Wealth of this magnitude is incomprehensible. The discrepancy between billions and everyone else is orders of magnitude beyond comprehension. This wealth is the difference between the sun and a match. This wealth is the difference between volcano and spark. This wealth is the difference between ocean and a bead of sweat. To have this wealth means to have power, and to have power in a technique saturated society means the weapons at your disposal are weapons Kings could never dream of.

These celebrity technocrat gods don’t think of quaint human experiences as experiences worth having, for there is no power to exert in these human scenarios. These gods are malevolent creatures, hostile to pantheon; ridiculous indigestion of culture, burped into the faces of thinkers and observers alike. These gods and their dogma abuse goodwill, propagandize freely, argue in bad faith, lie, cheat, steal and for what? Power and control?

This era; this pathetic generation of abused, neglected, spoiled, nepotistic celebrity technocrats intend to consolidate power into fewer hands for time to come. These gods, and their economic slave thinkers are building a temple of weaponized technique, protected by veiled justice, proclamations of false virtue, a panopticon of communion, and an army of automatons to police it.

These gods, they seek to rule all men.