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Title: Our Future Author: Ryder Stanley Language: en Topics: Accelerationism, post-civ, collapse
What does our future entail? This is the most essential question at the
root of all political discourse. The discussion of future societies. So
it is essential for us to ask ourselves what these futures entail. There
is a key concept we must first realize when discussing the societies of
the future, the dichotomy of Realistic progress vs Anti-Realistic
progress. Naturally, the debate centers around what is realistically
possible to occur. However in reality this is antithetical to the
debate. The progress of all hitherto existing societies is not
Realistic, instead, it is Anti-Realistic. Imagine speaking to a person
from 500 years ago and telling them about the internet, it would be
impossible for them to grasp. If a theorist during that period predicted
the internet everybody would call them insane, they would say that their
predictions aren't realistic in the slightest. If you told them that
every person on earth is going to be connected via boxes that flow
electricity in a certain manner to do so, that would be impossible to
realize. Because from the elements of the time it was Anti-Realistic.
But despite that it occurred anyway, this is because history doesn't
move Realistically, it moves in a current of Anti-Realistic progress.
Therefore when discussing what the future entails we must not limit
ourselves to thinking of what is currently possible, or nearly possible.
We must not limit ourselves to Realistic progress, we must think
Anti-Realistically.
This is the first step towards societies of the future, the downfall and
the total collapse of civilization as we know it. But what is
Civilization in the first place? Civilization is a complex society with
Social Institutions, Government, and all elements of what make up the
world that we know. This is distinct and separate from Society, which is
simply the collective of various individual interactions. Civilization
is naturally bound with contradictions, most exemplified in the
suppression of the Individual. When the Individual is suppressed,
whether it be by Government, by Religion, by School, and so on, the
Individual becomes Alienated from their natural state, the natural state
of being an Individualistic being. Civilization is not natural,
Civilization is the Antithesis of nature. All institutions that seem
natural are radically unnatural, the natural state of humanity is to be
an individual. To not be grasped by any Social Institution, to not be
grasped by Civilization. In reality, we are simply born to survive and
repopulate, we are animals. It is not our natural state to be forced
into these schools, controlled by these governments, be grasped by the
Neurosis of societal pressure. However, in Civilization, this is all
thrown out of the window. The individual's natural state is suppressed,
they are practically brainwashed into thinking this is their natural
state. This is in an inherent contradiction with the reality of our
nature, our Individuality. This contradiction produces conflict, this
conflict will lead to the total collapse of Civilization. So why hasn't
it happened yet?
Because the material conditions haven't been available to do so, this
contradiction is not civilization-ending in itself, only when
Civilization is made obsolete does this contradiction produce conflict.
And as we are speaking, Civilization is being made obsolete. The
Acceleration of Technology is going to make (and has made) certain
aspects of Civilization entirely obsolete. Before we know it this is
going to happen to all of Civilization. Right now with the emergence of
Automated Labor, work is becoming obsolete. Soon enough, Work won't
exist anymore. There will be machines to do everything better and more
efficiently than humans ever could. So what would a Post-Work
Civilization look like? This is unanswerable because Civilization cannot
exist without Societal Labor. Government will become obsolete because
the role of the government as an enforcer of Societal Control will phase
out in the Automation of Society. Government only exists, and only
emerged to regulate labor. Tribal societies only developed early forms
of government because they needed to efficiently regulate Labor. So when
Labor becomes entirely unregulatable, and human labor obsolete, then
Government as well will phase out of existence. Furthermore, another
aspect of Civilization that will pile onto this and be a determining
factor behind the collapse of Civilization, is Climate Change. There is
a large ecological aspect to the collapse of Civilization, Climate
Anxiety will further empower the contradictions of Civilization and will
encourage the Individual to rise, and the overproduction,
over-exhaustion, and overall ecological stress that Civilization places
on nature will lead to the soon-coming demise of itself. All of these
aspects will pile onto each other, every role of Civilization, every
aspect of it, will cease to exist. Leading to only one option: The Total
Collapse of Civilization.
Now that Civilization has collapsed, what is next? How will society
rebuild itself, however will Society function when Civilization has
collapsed, and all aspects of a 'functioning' society have become
obsolete? Society will be rebuilt off the ideals of Free Association,
Free Time, and Free Individuality. We will return to our nature, we will
no longer be grasped by the unnatural aspects of Civilization, rather we
will act Individualistically and freely associate with other
individuals. As well, all time that we have will be times of leisure,
'Free Time' you could say. It is true that in our future societies, in
our New Society bound by Individualistic Communism, 'Communism is Free
Time and nothing else!' This is how our societies will rebuild, this is
what our 'New Society' will be. The purely Liberated society, free of
all Social control. A natural state of Leisure, Pleasure, and
Individuality. How our nature is intended. But let it be known, when
referring to 'Natural State' we do not mean Primitivism. Primitivism
entails an Anti-Technological society, in a Post-Civilization New
Society, we will still utilize technology, even encourage technology.
But we will not be the ones in control of technology, the technology
will simply be a bystander which we will utilize to distribute
resources. For example, Food will be provided by Technology, no human
labor will be put into producing it. Food will be distributed equally
among all people, not according to bourgeois ideals of 'deservedness' or
'how hard you worked for it'. In a society of leisure, there will be no
measurement of Labor to determine the distribution of resources. This is
not a primitive society, but rather a uniquely technological one. A
uniquely new Society, a society past civilization, not behind it.
Society is headed towards collapse, there is nothing we can do about it.
We shouldn't try to slow it down, or speed it up, but rather sit back
and enjoy the total collapse of Civilization. This collapse will not be
a sad thing, it will not be a fearful thing, it will be a liberating
thing. It will accelerate us into an ideal future, a future free of the
Neurosis that Societal Structures hold us in.
And to the Critics that say it is an Idealistic future, Yes. This is not
a realistic notion of what future societies will be like, but that is a
good thing. History moves in a current of Anti-Realism, Anti-Realistic
progress. To accurately describe our future we must think not in the
limits of Realism, but through the liberating ideals of Anti-Realism, we
must think Anti-Realistically.
When will this Collapse occur? That is hard to answer, but based on the
trends of current society it is likely we will see a collapse within the
next few decades, so that is something to look forward to. However I
cannot promise that we will reach this idealistic New Society within our
lifetimes, but regardless we will still see the beginning of a new
society, we are at the end of history. And that is an Ecstatic feeling,
revel in this feeling, and adore it while it lasts.