In\u00a0Technocracy Ascending Part 4,<\/a>\u00a0Dark Enlightenment, the Neoreaction(NRx) movement, and accelerationism were exposed as the ideological forces behind the technocrats in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This installment investigates how both Eastern and Western technocrats are creating high-tech utopian societies that supposedly advance the common good of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Howard Scott of Technocracy Inc. and his merry band of technocrats envisioned an efficiently run system of regional government incorporating a territorial expanse of countries as far south as Panama and north as Canada, known as the North American Technate. It would outlaw politicians and bureaucrats and instead favor rule by experts employing technology to manage all aspects of society, solving the complex problems of human governance. He described it as a system \u201cbased solely on scientific principles and incontrovertible scientific facts and can only be carried on along scientific lines.\u201d Constitutional and democratic governance would yield authority to a new class of technical men remaking the government into an automated system fueled by insatiable amounts of data collected about all people and social functions.<\/p> The political administration of our national affairs is deemed by Technocracy to be totally inadequate and incompetent, irrespective of which political racketeer does the administering. Politics and the financial racketeering of the Price System are blood brothers conceived in the ages of scarcity along with the oxcart, the sickle, the hoe, and the spade; and, like them, they have become as obsolete and must be consigned to historical antiquity.\u201dHoward Scott,\u00a0Radio Address, Feb. 6, 1935 \u2013 WEVD, NY<\/em>,\u00a0The Words and Wisdom of Howard Scott, Vol. 1<\/a>, Technocracy Inc., 1989<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Modern technocrats like Parag Khanna also believe that democracy is a relic of the past and what America (and the world) needs is \u201cmore technocracy\u2014a lot more.\u201d In\u00a0Technocracy in America: The Rise of the Info State<\/em>, Khanna further states that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The way to get there is ideally neither war nor revolution\u2014nor a bout of tyranny\u2014but to evolve America\u2019s political system in a more technocratic direction. Technocratic government is built around expert analysis and long-term planning rather than narrow-minded and short-term populist whims\u201d (p. 7).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Khanna\u2019s long-term planning to arrive at technocratic governance began to accelerate in the 1970s with the Trilateral Commission\u2019s goal of developing a New International Economic Order. China\u2019s rise as an economic power and the shift toward globalization can be directly traced to\u00a0Trilateral initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1933, Harold Loeb, an original Technocracy Inc. devotee (who eventually formed his own\u00a0Continental Committee on Technocracy<\/a>), wrote in\u00a0Life in a Technocracy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that technocratic governance was the only solution to the world\u2019s problems. He believed it was inevitable and would emerge through a combined evolution slowly over time, and revolution, through one big final push when conditions were ripe. Given the current state, it seems as though America is now experiencing that final revolutionary push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this society of security, material abundance, equality and harmony, man would also have maximum leisure. Since \u201cthere is no virtue in human labor,\u201d work will be done \u201cby the most automatic process that can be devised.\u201dAkin, William E.\u00a0Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement<\/em>, 1900-1941, University of California Press, 1977, pp. 145<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n What Scott, Khanna, and Loeb all shared is a belief that technocracy is the one form of government capable of producing optimum good for all. They believed that by focusing on science, automation, data, and surveillance, an era of utmost efficiency, abundant living, and maximum leisure would emerge, despite requiring top-down control and data on everyone and everything down to the smallest detail. The rest of this installment will investigate if they can truly deliver on their utopian promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine a world where the United Nations\u2019 (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are achieved through increased centralized control. The digital revolution allows for unprecedented surveillance (even\u00a0while you work<\/a>) and steering of all social and ecological systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regional governments emerge and force top-down management of all economic activity through a symbiotic relationship between states, multinational companies, and NGOs. A few corporate monopolies (i.e., too big to fail) employ massive amounts of social, behavioral, and even genetic data along with automation and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems to maintain their hold over all industries and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this world, energy is distributed through massive fields of concentrated solar power. Once-thriving family farms are now obsolete, giving way to systems managed by AI, robotics, and swarms of drones called \u2018agrobots.\u2019 Real-time ecosystem management produces abundant agricultural products without harming the environment. Strong economic performance produces revenue-sustaining centralized governments, public services, and welfare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the monetary wealth and abundant resources produced, this tightly controlled world comes with significant tradeoffs. Individual rights and personal freedoms are sacrificed for collective interests and the \u201ccommon good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Behind the scenes, ruling powers seize control of public discourse, however, most don\u2019t even notice. Citizens wink at how authoritarian governments have become, because their needs are met by the interlocking state-corporate power structure. In previous times this fascist merger was resisted but in this imagined utopia, it\u2019s simply viewed as a pragmatic way of managing a complex world. Since the smart city experience\u2014where everything is interconnected all the time\u2014is very convenient and efficient, not many care about the loss of privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The digital transformation allows governments to predict societal problems, control behavior, encourage sustainable lifestyles through \u201cnudging\u201d and \u201cchoice-editing,\u201d and easily identify those who create disorder. A few complain about the \u201cBig Brother\u201d system, alleging that carbon allowances don\u2019t cover their needs. But their dissent is easily neutralized. In some countries, libertarian groups attempt to effect change, but political parties have gone the way of dinosaurs, yielding their power and authority to AI and billionaire tech experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This depiction may sound like a book proposal for the next great dystopian fiction novel or a nod to harrowing works of the past. However, it actually describes a world envisioned by the\u00a0European Environment Agency (EEA<\/a>), an organization founded in 1994 to support European environmental policy. The EEA has 32 member countries and 6 cooperating countries. It also works closely with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\u00a0Imaginary 1: Technocracy for the Common Good<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0the EEA describes what it believes is a plausible scenario for achieving a sustainable Europe by the year 2050. Though proposed for the European Union (EU), the vision is eerily similar to the\u00a0Clever Together<\/a>\u00a0scenario envisioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Business Network (GBN) for the entire world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As mentioned in\u00a0part 2<\/a>, the Rockefellers have played a large role in planting and watering the seeds of technocratic governance through the United Nations, Trilateral Commission, and philanthropic endeavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clever Together was one of four situations featured in \u201cScenarios for the Futures of Technology and International Development<\/em><\/a>,\u201d a white paper published in 2010 to\u00a0\u201cexplore the role of technology and the future of globalization\u201d\u00a0<\/em>and shed light on the\u00a0\u201cmultiple, divergent ways in which our world could evolve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This report also contained the Lockstep scenario in which a pandemic engulfed the world in 2012, resulting in draconian laws and increased surveillance with mandatory biometric IDs (e.g., vaccine passports) and face masks becoming commonplace. After having lived through the tyranny of the COVID-19 era, it\u2019s fair to ask whether Lockstep was simply a fictional scenario or a roadmap for increasing authoritarian control over populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like\u00a0Technocracy for the Common Good<\/em>, Clever Together pictures a highly coordinated society forged by computer algorithms, otherwise known as\u00a0algocracy<\/a>. While attempting to stave off planetary doom from climate change issues, \u201csystems thinking\u201d and \u201csystems acting\u201d on a global scale become paramount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this scenario, 2015 was the watershed for countries to collectively address climate issues, culminating in an international agreement in 2017 to curb carbon emissions. The proposed agreements just happened to coincide with the real life implementation of the\u00a02030 Agenda for Sustainable Development<\/a>, the related\u00a0SDGs<\/a>, and the\u00a0Paris Agreement<\/a>, all adopted in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clever Together has also proven accurate regarding developments that have accelerated centralization, data collection, surveillance, the demise of nation-states, and the rise of regional governance \u2014\u00a0all supposedly for the common good. In detailing how global coordination helped bring about new ways to monitor energy use through smart grids, the paper reports that [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026large-scale coordinated initiatives intensified.\u00a0Centralized global oversight<\/strong>\u00a0and governance structures<\/strong>\u00a0sprang up,\u00a0not just for energy<\/strong>\u00a0use but also for\u00a0disease and technology standards<\/strong>. Such systems and structures required far greater levels of transparency, which in turn\u00a0required more tech-enabled data collection<\/strong>, processing, and feedback\u2026\u00a0Nation-states lost some of their power<\/strong>\u00a0and importance as\u00a0global architecture strengthened<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0regional governance structures emerged<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The UN\u2019s own\u00a0Our Common Agenda<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report and associated\u00a0policy briefs<\/a>\u00a0solidify and build upon Clever Together, highlighting the need for\u00a0\u201ca stronger, more networked and inclusive multilateral system, anchored within the United Nations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 11 policy briefs cover a wide range of issues from recrafting the international financial architecture to combating disinformation on digital platforms, and more. The flowery language used throughout the documents make the schemes sound so wonderful. However, a\u00a0deeper dive<\/a>\u00a0reveals that these plans will be accomplished at the expense of individual rights, national sovereignty, and America\u2019s constitutional republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the globalist vision of technocracy, the world merges together through regional alignments like BRICS, the EU, and Scott\u2019s imagined North American Technate to cooperate on economic, climate, health, technology, legislation, and other sociopolitical domains. This new world order has been fashioned by men like Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller, organizations like the Club of Rome, and initiatives like the UN\u2019s Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under global technocracy, individual rights and nation-state rule are reduced for the sake of the collective, multilateral world. Peace is achieved as regional powers seek mutual benefit. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) consisting of multinational corporations, governments, and NGOs maintain control over society by advancing the same goals and outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Technology becomes god-like in facilitating global governance through AI, smart cities, wearable and implantable tech, and other Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) innovations\u00a0\u201cwhere the\u00a0physical, digital, and biological<\/a>\u00a0worlds merge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently retired World Economic Forum founder (WEF) Klaus Schwab may have described global technocracy best in an excerpt from his book on\u00a0Stakeholder Capitalism<\/a>, which states [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To ensure that both people and the planet prosper, four key stakeholders play a crucial role. They are:\u00a0governments<\/strong>\u00a0(of countries, states, and local communities);\u00a0civil society<\/strong>\u00a0(from unions to NGOs, from schools and universities to action groups);\u00a0companies<\/strong>\u00a0(constituting the private sector, whether freelancers or large multinational companies); and the\u00a0international community<\/strong>\u00a0(consisting of international organizations such as the UN as well as regional organizations such as the European Union or ASEAN)\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Though upholding human rights is discussed, note that individuals are not found in Schwab\u2019s list of stakeholders. The vast majority of people will be expected to comply with whatever public-private partnerships decide is the right course of action to manage society. You can be assured that the technocrats embedded within each of these stakeholder groups will be leading the charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right before our eyes, the world is being transformed into regional autocracies governed by or closely aligned with tech experts. Automated, AI-run societies are rapidly developing where human agency is stripped away and compliance with technocratic dictates is the sole path to survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the globalist vision of technocracy. Mark Carney, Canada\u2019s self-described \u201cglobal elitist<\/a>\u201d unelected prime minister, epitomizes global technocracy with key roles across various stakeholders in central banking, environmental, social and governance (ESG), fintech, climate finance and connections to the UN, WEF, Bilderberg Group and a host of additional globalist institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the United States and other countries such as\u00a0Hungary<\/a>,\u00a0India<\/a>, and\u00a0Turkey<\/a>, populism has seemingly offered an alternative to the globalist vision by defending individual rights and democratic principles. In a speech delivered at\u00a0CPAC Texas<\/a>\u00a0in 2022, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have seen what kind of future the globalist, ruling class has to offer. But we have a different future in mind. The globalists can all go to hell\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n In this regard, Donald Trump and fellow populist leaders function as the antithesis of Mark Carney. However, assuming populists like Trump are on the side of everyday people may prove unwise upon closer examination. Once the curtains are peeled back, the EU\u2019s\u00a0Technocracy for the Common Good<\/em>\u00a0and Trump\u2019s \u201cgolden age for America\u201d may not look all that different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As highlighted in\u00a0part 4<\/a>, the Dark Enlightenment\/Neoreaction (NRx) movement was pioneered by men like Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land. Technocrats connected to the movement are now embedded within Trump\u2019s administration. Whether serving as benefactors, advisers, appointees, or elected leaders, men like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreesen, and JD Vance are steadily advancing technocracy in America under the guise of MAGA\/Dark MAGA. Like the globalist version, they\u2019re attempting to create a techno-utopian state where the good of all is promised. Though the terminology and methodology are slightly different, the desired outcomes of the MAGA anti-globalists look very similar to their globalist counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The process for establishing a Network State can be boiled down to three steps, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Srinivasan, a multimillionaire with a net worth of over\u00a0$150 million<\/a>\u00a0(mostly in Bitcoin), believes that nation-states governed by values based on God and established religions are outdated and ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labeling God and the nation as \u201cLeviathans\u201d or \u201cprime mover(s) who hover above all,\u201d he insists a third Leviathan will replace them and become even more powerful,\u00a0saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026in the 1800s you wouldn\u2019t steal because God would smite you, in the 1900s you didn\u2019t steal because the State would punish you, but in the 2000s you can\u2019t steal because the Network won\u2019t let you. Either the social network will mob you, or the cryptocurrency network won\u2019t let you steal because you lack the private key, or (eventually) the networked AI will detect you, or all of the above\u2026 the Network is the next Leviathan, because on key dimensions it is becoming more powerful and more\u00a0just<\/em>\u00a0than the State.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, both named\u00a0WEF Young Global Leaders<\/a>\u00a0in 2007 and 2008 respectively, along with the rest of the \u201cPayPal Mafia,\u201d pioneered the concept of digital currency with the intent of replacing the current economic system and physical cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their ideas would perhaps spawn a more seditious goal: replacing nation-states with digital startups. Nick Land advanced the gov-corp concept and Curtis Yarvin pushed for Patchwork realms where nation-states are broken up and replaced by Big Tech companies ruled by CEO monarchs. Srinivasan\u2019s Network State builds upon their vision as the model is now spreading its wings with the building of real life, alternative governments (to be discussed later).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The connection between these anti-democratic visionaries was further documented by the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>, who reported on the contents of an email Srinivasan sent to Yarvin in 2013. In the email, Srinivasan suggested launching a coordinated effort to censor and dox a\u00a0Tech Crunch<\/a>\u00a0journalist reporting on the ties between Silicon Valley and the Dark Enlightenment movement, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If things get hot, it may be interesting to sic the Dark Enlightenment audience on a single vulnerable hostile reporter to dox them and turn them inside out with hostile reporting sent to *their* advertisers\/friends\/contacts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Years later, Yarvin referenced Srinivasan while penning his own ideas of a startup state in an essay on\u00a0remaking El Salvador<\/a>, in which he wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would make El Salvador a\u00a0startup state<\/em>. I would do this by creating a\u00a0new executive authority<\/em>\u00a0that first\u00a0analyzed<\/em>\u00a0the existing civil service, then\u00a0redesigned<\/em>\u00a0it, then\u00a0supervised\u00a0<\/em>it, then incrementally\u00a0replaced<\/em>\u00a0it with its own wholly new organs\u2014reusing the old staff only as individuals, if at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This ambitious plan would work because the\u00a0whole<\/em>\u00a0new authority would be staffed by international \u201cthugs\u201d (as Balaji Srinivasan likes to say) with world-class executive talent. These killers, who would mostly work remotely (Salvador is blessed by an American timezone), would be the best of North American YC founders, McKinsey veterans, Google engineers, SpaceX rocket scientists, hedge-fund masters, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These kinds of people aren\u2019t cheap. But they are efficient\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Yarvin\u2019s idea to facilitate a makeover of El Salvador\u2019s government involves employing America\u2019s premier technocrats in finance, science, information technology, and consulting including Sam Altman (Y-Combinator [YC]), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet\/Google), and Elon Musk (SpaceX). Of course, the list is much broader, but these are some of the major players foisting the anti-globalist version of technocracy upon an unsuspecting population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Network or \u201cstartup states\u201d are a radical concept that if adopted en masse, could make becoming a citizen of another nation almost as simple as choosing a new mobile provider. However, can these visionaries really deliver on their promises, or is there a catch buried deep in the fine print? Are they really providing freedom through digitization and decentralization, or taking advantage of poor countries under the guise of reducing poverty? Are they standing against globalist technocracy or creating a Silicon Valley flavored version of the same thing? A few real life examples may provide the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Built on the concept of the Network State,\u00a0Pr\u00f3spera<\/a>\u00a0is a private, free city located on the Caribbean Island of Roat\u00e1n off the coast of La Ceiba, Honduras. It was founded by Erick Brimen, a Venezuelan native and US citizen with a military and business background and Guatemalan tech entrepreneur Gabriel Delgado, who both attended college in the US. Like Curtis Yarvin, Pr\u00f3spera\u2019s founders believe that governments of the future will be treated as privatized startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pr\u00f3spera is partially funded by\u00a0Pronomos Capital<\/a>, a venture capital (VC) fund dedicated to launching charter cities around the world \u201cwhere the city is the product.\u201d The fund was started by\u00a0anarcho-capitalist<\/a>\u00a0Patri Friedman, grandson of economist Milton Friedman and bankrolled by Peter Thiel, fellow Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, and Marc Andreesen of Andreesen Horowitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Balaji Srinivasan has also backed Pr\u00f3spera through the\u00a0Balaji Fund<\/a>, established in 2023 with billionaire Coinbase CEO\u00a0Brian Armstrong<\/a>\u00a0on board as an investor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n According to\u00a0Inside Climate News<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cZEDE law drew on the ideas of Paul Romer, an American who would later serve as chief economist at the World Bank and who had been promoting the idea of charter cities as models of development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n To date, Pr\u00f3spera reports that it has formed more than 200 businesses, has over 1,700 residents from more than 40 countries, and invested over $100 million to catalyze economic growth. Individuals can apply as e-residents much like the system pioneered in\u00a0Estonia<\/a>, or become full time residents inside the Pr\u00f3spera ZEDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to their\u00a0website<\/a>, \u201cPr\u00f3spera is a startup city with a regulatory system designed for entrepreneurs to build better, cheaper, and faster than anywhere else in the world\u201d with hopes to achieve a population of 38,000 by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2019, Pr\u00f3spera began facing issues with native Hondurans over access to water. When the Crawfish Rock community\u2019s cistern began malfunctioning, locals lost access to running water. Pr\u00f3spera stepped in and connected the village to its own water tank. Residents were initially overjoyed that their taps were again working but soon became incredulous as water bills began arriving from Pr\u00f3spera\u2019s Institute for Excellence foundation (later renamed Pr\u00f3spera Foundation). This was just the beginning of signs indicating that trouble was brewing in paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Locals began protesting against Pr\u00f3spera, claiming employment discrimination and harassment by armed security guards after a series of robberies. Hondurans were also concerned that Pr\u00f3spera would eventually absorb Crawfish Rock and expropriate their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, Brimen cut off water access after accusing the opposing patronato of restricting access to Pr\u00f3spera\u2019s water supply. This strongarm tactic served as a ploy to get the locals to sign a binding agreement locking them into water supplied by the Big Tech city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an encounter with police went viral, Brimen\u2019s reputation plummeted. Local politicians began denouncing the ZEDE, leading to its eventual repeal in September 2024 when the Honduran Supreme Court overturned the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then, Honduras has been entrenched in a legal battle with Pr\u00f3spera who is suing the nation for $10.775 billion along with 14 other investor claims totaling\u00a0more than $12 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pr\u00f3spera is arguing it has a right to continue operating for at least 10 more years despite the ZEDE law being ruled unconstitutional. Should they win the decision, Honduras would be forced to pay an amount equal to two thirds its annual budget. The case will be decided by an ad-hoc tribunal consisting of mainly corporate lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A\u00a0Wired story<\/a>\u00a0noted that\u00a0\u201cTribunals have issued billions of dollars in awards even in cases where corporations violated domestic laws, polluted the environment or\u00a0trampled on basic human rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To date, it does not appear that the court reversal had much of an effect on Pr\u00f3spera\u2019s operations. The technocratic gov-corp entity believes it is\u00a0\u201cemancipating individuals from the constraints of corruption and cronyism that hinder their potential to pursue their aspirations\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and is confronting\u00a0\u201cthe vested interests of a corrupt government seeking to maintain power for political gains\u2026\u201d<\/em> If they somehow make us pay all the money that they\u2019re talking right now, then they\u2019re going to break a state\u2026 And then you\u2019re going to see\u00a0how private corporations can destroy states<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Local perceptions of the elitist tech paradise nested inside a small island in the West Caribbean are not at all flattering. Luisa Connor and Venessa Cardenas, president and vice president of the Crawfish Rock patronato, feel that the people behind Pr\u00f3spera are a gang of crypto colonialists exploiting the land and local community,\u00a0stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pr\u00f3spera ZEDE cropped up out of nowhere one day and we have seen devastating environmental harm to our community ever since. We were not consulted, no one asked if they had permission to build or what the project would entail. We have been in this territory for centuries and the [foreign investors] keep expanding. Since they arrived, the environment has changed. We are experiencing floods for the first time, our river has dried up, threatening many species of plants and animals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s initiative to make America the \u201cworld capital of artificial intelligence and crypto\u201d has already been playing out in countries within its sphere of influence through people and organizations connected to Peter Thiel. Pr\u00f3spera is a hotbed for the cryptocurrency and biotech industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Pr\u00f3spera, Bitcoin is legal tender and has its own business center called\u00a0AmityAge<\/a>. The city also\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0to be \u201cone of the most Bitcoin-friendly jurisdictions in the world\u201d despite the fact that\u00a0crypto has been outlawed<\/a>\u00a0in Honduras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Infinita City<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Vitalia) is a popup city inside the Pr\u00f3spera ZEDE dedicated to developing biotech solutions with reduced regulations and minimal to no FDA oversight. Much of the research is dedicated to the transhuman goal of life extension. Much of the financial support has come through the\u00a0Balaji Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through\u00a0Minicircle<\/a>, a gene-therapy biohacking company also backed by the Balaji Fund, visitors can pay\u00a0$25,000<\/a>\u00a0for an injection that aims to delay aging. Both Sam Altman and Peter Thiel\u00a0have donated<\/a>\u00a0to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thiel believes that the possibility of\u00a0injecting himself<\/a>\u00a0with young people\u2019s blood is \u201creally interesting.\u201d\u00a0Symbiont Labs<\/a>, another startup within the city, aims to\u00a0\u201chelp people become self-sovereign cyborgs\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by offering subdermal implants and custom-built censors. If the 4IR is so evil, why are the anti-globalists pursuing the same merger of the physical, digital, and biological worlds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though Pr\u00f3spera believes it is fostering freedom, innovation, and an alternative to nation-state governance, it\u2019s advancing many of the same initiatives as the globalists they claim to stand against. They also threaten to financially cripple an entire nation, crushing those who stand in their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pr\u00f3spera may have done some good in the local community, but for indigenous people, it appears that the negatives far outweigh the positives. As it stands, their way of life has been permanently altered, their well-being threatened, and their very existence put in jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Pr\u00f3spera is a well-established Network State, Praxis is still wetting its feet in the alternative governance space. Dryden Brown, a 29-year-old college dropout turned visionary, is the founder and CEO of Praxis. Dubbed a \u201ccryptostate,\u201d Praxis was launched in 2019 and aims to build a biotech friendly, futurist city-state powered by AI and blockchain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Piqued by Donald Trump\u2019s interest in purchasing Greenland during his first term as president, Brown himself tried to purchase the Arctic island nation, but was soundly rebuffed. Brown later pivoted to an undisclosed location in Latin America or the Mediterranean as the headquarters for his future cryptostate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I went to Greenland to try to buy it<\/p> Here\u2019s what happened:<\/p>\u2014 Dryden (@drydenwtbrown) November 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Sam Altman of World (formerly Worldcoin) and OpenAI also invested in Praxis through his VC firm Apollo Adventures. Max Novendstern, cofounder of World (the company where biometric data, in the form of facial and iris scans is harvested in exchange for cryptocurrency and a World ID), is listed as a Praxis member and an investor. Additional connections can be found in the\u00a0following diagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last October, Praxis raised an additional\u00a0$525 million<\/a>\u00a0to help facilitate the company\u2019s goals to be\u00a0\u201cthe world\u2019s first Network State Movement.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The website boasts that\u00a0\u201cmore than 14,000 Praxians live in 84 countries and have founded companies worth over $400B.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Brown is a diehard\u00a0accelerationist<\/a>, believing technology and capitalism must rapidly advance to the point where micronations emerge with CEO monarchs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like Pr\u00f3spera, Praxis is intent on reducing \u201cregulatory barriers, enabling rapid breakthroughs in AI, crypto, biotech, energy, and advanced manufacturing.\u201d Praxis\u2019 goal is to undermine the nation state in favor of online crypto communities. This is clearly alluded to in \u201cThe Sovereign Network: Crypto\u2019s End Game<\/a>,\u201d which mentions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The monopoly on the formation of communities \u2013 up to and including nations \u2013 is gone. New regimes do not have to begin with political revolution. They can start with a tweet, and exist above, below, and within nation states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n According to\u00a0DMARGE<\/a>, much of what Praxis is planning for its Network State sounds eerily similar to the \u201cdeep shifts\u201d Klaus Schwab outlined in his 2016 book on\u00a0The Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/a>, citing that [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Praxis plans to run on code. Literally. Governance, infrastructure, and day-to-day services will rely on\u00a0blockchain systems<\/strong>, which will enable automated resource allocation via\u00a0smart contracts<\/strong>,\u00a0real-time energy usage controlled by AI<\/strong>, and\u00a0fully digital ID systems<\/strong>\u00a0for residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tech doesn\u2019t stop there, though. Praxis also wants to embed\u00a06G networks<\/strong>,\u00a0renewable<\/strong>\u00a0microgrids,\u00a0AR-enhanced public spaces<\/strong>, and\u00a0autonomous transportation<\/strong>\u00a0into its foundation.\u00a0Homes will be smart\u00a0<\/strong>thanks to\u00a0IoT devices<\/strong>\u00a0and streets will be responsive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Howard Scott would be especially proud of Praxis\u2019 focus on real-time energy usage control and digital ID systems, as they were key tenets of his technocratic vision going back to the 1930s. Praxis cites several other lofty goals in its\u00a0Declaration of Ascent<\/a>, including the establishment of a \u201cnew form of human civilization: the Network Empire.\u201d The Declaration asserts that Praxis will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026ascend into the cloud, dissolving the arbitrary boundaries of physical territory. Our connections, our relationships, our shared vision and values create a new form of nation \u2013 one that exists wherever its citizens gather, whether in physical space or across the digital expanse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Praxis promises to \u201crestore Western civilization and pursue our ultimate destiny of life among the stars.\u201d However, fulfillment of these promises will employ many of the same societal control systems as outlined in the globalist vision of technocracy. Will the technology be used to liberate humanity into a new golden age? Or will it be used to oppress and subjugate while installing a new class of \u201ctech bro\u201d CEOs wielding all the power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the founders of Pr\u00f3spera and Praxis focused on building their \u201canti-globalist\u201d startup states abroad, there have been several attempts both now, and in the past, to establish them on American soil. What are known as innovation zones\/districts, special economic zones (SEZs), charter cities, and research parks are all variations of Yarvin\u2019s Patchworks and Srinivasan\u2019s Network States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As mentioned previously when discussing the origins of ZEDE law in Honduras, China pioneered the implementation of\u00a0free trade zones<\/a>\u00a0operating in cities like Shanghai and Guangdong to bolster foreign investment and help companies prosper through lower tax rates, expedited customs clearance, and other benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n America wants to emulate (and surpass) what China has accomplished, and plans to bring similar economic zones to U.S. states are ramping up. China is also the world\u2019s\u00a0smart city leader<\/a> with\u00a0over 500<\/a>\u00a0in various phases of construction, according to government data released in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Klaus Schwab<\/a>\u00a0once called China\u2014the blueprint of modern technocracy\u2014a \u201crole model for many nations.\u201d The U.S. is following China\u2019s lead in attempting to create corporate-friendly, regulation-light, continuously surveilled and connected economic districts within its counties and cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this a play to spur innovation, create jobs, and restore America as an economic titan capable of infinite manufacturing and production, or a stealth move to help billionaires and corporations\u00a0reboot the US government<\/a>\u00a0by establishing sovereign, tech-run jurisdictions with CEOs acting as monarchs? Perhaps only time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2023, Donald Trump proposed building \u201cFreedom Cities\u201d\u00a0in a video<\/a>\u00a0outlining his plans to repurpose some federal land to build up to 10 new cities. He promised these new cities would give Americans a\u00a0\u201cnew shot at home ownership\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and create a\u00a0\u201cquantum leap in the American standard of living.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Though he hasn\u2019t spoken much about it since, he sold the idea to millions of his supporters, especially those with deep pockets in the tech industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-38-1024x459.png\")
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